Sukumaran is perfect as an innocent young man going to the gulf by boat initially. Without much future in his home town , he too decides to go to the gulf like most Keralites of that time . He manages to get a good job after several travails like losing his close friend . Despite diversions in the form of his secretary and a nurse , Srividya he manages to focus and hold his job. Both these women have their own poignant stories to share . After earning substantially , he returns back home to Kerala planning to lead a peaceful life and realises that everything has changed including himself . People around look at him in a new light as he has lots of money now . He has snapped connections with his old self
mentally . He himself grows aloof with those people who helped him in times of distress. His lover Jalaja rejects him citing his attitude despite him promising her the world at her feet . Dejected he returns back to the gulf to get on with his life . The whole movie is about his journey from a wary honest young man to an over confident well settled rich man . Srividya shines in her small role as usual as a nurse and then his lover singing a duet with him . Jalaja is cute as a simple girl and invokes some sympathy as some one who is shocked by his attitude. Mammooty shines in his small raw role as a drunk. Over all its a realistic movie waking up all those with day dreams of the gulf.
Review of Vilkkanundu Swapnangal
