Dear P.H. Rashid and P.M.Taj, when I was a kid I used to visit my cousins house next door and we used to watch Kurukan Rajavayi nearly every evening because my uncle had the film's video cassette. Somehow he never returned it.
Anyway, I don't know what you guys were drinking when you wrote the story and screenplay for this film. A young and flirtatious Malayali man deliberately tries to ride his bicycle into the car driven by the daughter of a rich tea estate owner in the hope that she would fall in love with him. But his father wants him to marry an idiotic mentally ill girl who is his best friends daughter. And then there are the young man's friends who are also trying to get the man to marry the mentally ill girl. Soon the man and the friends discover a corpse while bathing in the river. They hang the albatross (corpse) around an unsuspecting boatman's neck. The absurd plot, conflicts, climax and resolutions are so damn ingenious and tongue in cheek.
I would buy you guys a couple of beers for thinking all of this up and tying it all up together in the end. I wish a more creative director than P.C.Chandrakumar worked on this film. Someone like Priyadarshan who was making similar films would have helped weed out some of the crude stuff in your script.
There is more creativity in your writing than in the toenails of Ashiq Abu, Alphone Puthren or Vineeth Srinivasan. Most of the young Malayalam filmmakers wish they could make a film as unaffectedly morally repugnant as Kurukan Rajavayi.
The casting choices were great. Maniyanpillai Raju who usually excels in supporting roles does a great job as the male lead. T.G.Ravi steals the show as the loud and henpecked boatman. Oduvil Unnikrishnan is hilarious as the corpse/ghost that refuses to stay dead. His exchange with Mukesh about him being a "vishaala" Hindu ghost and hence the cross would not work on him was outrageous. Did you guys come up with that on the sets? Anyway, you did a great job. I am surprised you guys aren't more well known. If you guys are still alive, you ought to contact some of the young new generation filmmakers who cannot seem to write one piece of clever or humorous dialogue in their mother tongue.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
Anyway, I don't know what you guys were drinking when you wrote the story and screenplay for this film. A young and flirtatious Malayali man deliberately tries to ride his bicycle into the car driven by the daughter of a rich tea estate owner in the hope that she would fall in love with him. But his father wants him to marry an idiotic mentally ill girl who is his best friends daughter. And then there are the young man's friends who are also trying to get the man to marry the mentally ill girl. Soon the man and the friends discover a corpse while bathing in the river. They hang the albatross (corpse) around an unsuspecting boatman's neck. The absurd plot, conflicts, climax and resolutions are so damn ingenious and tongue in cheek.
I would buy you guys a couple of beers for thinking all of this up and tying it all up together in the end. I wish a more creative director than P.C.Chandrakumar worked on this film. Someone like Priyadarshan who was making similar films would have helped weed out some of the crude stuff in your script.
There is more creativity in your writing than in the toenails of Ashiq Abu, Alphone Puthren or Vineeth Srinivasan. Most of the young Malayalam filmmakers wish they could make a film as unaffectedly morally repugnant as Kurukan Rajavayi.
The casting choices were great. Maniyanpillai Raju who usually excels in supporting roles does a great job as the male lead. T.G.Ravi steals the show as the loud and henpecked boatman. Oduvil Unnikrishnan is hilarious as the corpse/ghost that refuses to stay dead. His exchange with Mukesh about him being a "vishaala" Hindu ghost and hence the cross would not work on him was outrageous. Did you guys come up with that on the sets? Anyway, you did a great job. I am surprised you guys aren't more well known. If you guys are still alive, you ought to contact some of the young new generation filmmakers who cannot seem to write one piece of clever or humorous dialogue in their mother tongue.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
