And if crying is a defining challenge for any actor, she accomplishes till you are crying with her. Asha Sarath cries a lot, great big heart rending sobs, lumps in her throat that she has to swallow, sad sniffling, she has lost her son and now her husband is also slipping and he refuses to take her hand. He is selfish and self-centered and his transformation was real and paced convincingly. In performance Mammooty has done well for himself. It is this tremendous loss that sends them spinning before it takes them on a trajectory of realisation after realisation.Nandini finds greater purpose and develops the need individual well-being, besides the husband and mourning. The family loses their bearing and Venu is distraught, on the verge of losing the plot when he sees a light and clings on to it for dear life and scrambles out of the grave he is trying to bury himself in. And for this Anand has to die, in a freak cardiac arrest. He attacks parents who are unable to see beyond the children and the class and school level achievements. What Ranjith has done is to use a dated scheme to call Malayali parents out on this rush to make their kids the alpha child of the pack. He sings, dances, does karate, and has just been enrolled in swimming lessons, all so that his smug parents can gloat some more about their over achieving son. Above this family of some seriously flawed characters rises Anand the adolescent son of Venu and Nandini who is a far better person than his parents and neighbourhood around him. And Nandini complains because she is well fed and looked after and frankly very bored. In the first half we see that Venu is parsimonious with money, although he does make a lot of it with his nifty, twisty, cut-throat business. In Varsham, he casts Mammooty in the lead role as Venu who runs a finance company, 'blade company' in Malayalam parlance and provides a comfortable life for his wife Nandini (Asha Sarath), his son Anand (Master Nabeesh), and their dog, Jimmy.
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There is no guaranteeing what you are going to get, for he broke the industry mould with his debut, Passenger, but then he also did slip down a slippery slope with Arjunan Sakshi and Molly Aunty Rocks. Still Varsham is worth a look.Review Varsham & earn 20 DM Points.* Review Submit The director Shobhan loses grip on the story after the fast paced first half. The major drawback of Varsham is the second half, which has an overdose of violence and narration is marred by two dream songs. Prakash Raj and Gopichand are excellent in their negative roles. Trisha has come of age as she has transformed herself into a fine actress with immense screen presence, except her dubbed voice that is jarring. Prabhas has improved leaps and bounds as far as emoting goes. The film has rankling echoes of Tezaab, a bit of Koyla and Upendra?s A and the climax fight is a straight lift from Van Damme?s Blood Sport! In this watery mess the only saving grace is Devisri Prasad?s music that is melodious and the performance of Trisha. All this leads to a bloody climax in the rain where good triumphs over evil. Shailaja?s scheming and villainous father (Prakash Raj), a gambler wants to sell her off to Bhadra Anna or make her a movie star! (Straight out of Anupam Kher in N.Chandra?s Tezaab) The rest of the film is how Venkat becomes a one-man-army and protector to Shailaja from the clutches of her father and Bhadra Anna. The rain also makes her sensuous, which makes a local don, Telengana Bhadra Anna (Gopichand) lust for her! Shailaja, the water baby who loves to dance when the sky opens up, loses her heart to Venkat that monsoon evening. The film is told in a flashback as the hero Venkat (Prabhas) remembers how he met Shailaja (Trisha) in a picture post card railway station in pouring rain.
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Varsham starts off promisingly but sadly the script goes haywire after interval, as director Sobhan waters it down as a masala mix of various old films leaving a lot of slushy mess behind.