Oru Yamandan Prema Kadha

Story: Lallu's family and friends want to get him married off, but he never quite feels the 'spark’ with any girl. Will he ever meet his soulmate?

Review: After his two-year-long break from Malayalam, during which he earned a name for himself in other industries, Dulquer Salmaan is back. Right from the outset, it was clear that he was keen to try something new in his comeback movie, ‘Oru Yamandan Premakadha’. And here's how it has fared.

The film is about a handful of 'katta’ friends who have been together since childhood. Lallu (Dulquer Salmaan) is the king of this group of 'low class’ youngsters, if you look at them through his dad's eyes. The good-looking fellow has received umpteen proposals from girls since childhood but as he says, he hasn't felt the spark yet. His family decides to get him married off, as his IT professional younger brother wants to get hitched. But, where to find this girl?

First things first. It’s a film primarily for Dulquer fans. His character, Lallu, is a wayward youth who is a daily wage painter, surrounded by comedy characters played by Soubin Shahir (Vicky), Vishnu Unnikrishnan (Teny) and Salim Kumar (Panchikuttan). It offers roars of laughter in many instances, but no highbrow comedy. The premise in itself might not be new, but the makers have managed to keep it quite entertaining.

The narrative takes a detour at times with certain songs delaying the story, but the tracks are good. Dulquer speaks in Kochi slang, dances to dappankuthu songs, is flanked by girls often and delivers comedy liners, all of them in a manner that would definitely be thrilling for a kunjikka fan. It also has what it takes to make the fans overlook its occasional flaws. Molly Kannammali, Soubin, Salim Kumar, Vishnu and Pradeep Kottayam immensely contribute to the many fun moments in the movie and they keep the audience interested. It also looks like many phrases from the film could pass into daily slang. The humour involving non-Malayali workers is also interesting.

The film's heroines hardly have any space to perform in the film, which is an out-and-out DQ show. A Tollywood feel is squeezed into many sequences, without much effect. Bibin George could have been better used as a villain in the movie which stretches on to 2 hours 40 minutes. Exhaustion seeps in at times, especially during songs and long stunts.