Sathyan has a winner in ‘Katha Thudarum’

Banner: Trueline Cinema

Cast: Jayaram, Mamtha, K P A C Lalitha, Innocent, Mumukkoya, Lakshmi Priya.

Direction: Sathyan Anthikkad

Production: Thankachan Emmanuel

Music: Illayaraja

A touching narrative about self made decisions that ultimately decides life and its moments ‘Katha Thudarum’ has Mamtha Mohandas as Vidhyalakshmi, a Brahmin girl who dares to start his life with a keyboard player Shanavas Ahamed (Asif Ali), despite the objections from both of their families, apparently due to their caste differences. Life was all that smooth for Vidhya till one rainy night when Shanavas sets off to buy mangoes for their beautiful young daughter Laya (Baby Anikha) and got killed by a misled quotation group.

As the young lady and his cute daughter is left in a busy city, helpless with no one to care, they tryout their ways to catch up with life but with very little success, until she meets an auto driver Preman (Jayaram). This straight forward man takes her to his reticent colony, with a lot of well mannered people living in unpretentious situations. And every Sathyan regulars like Innocent, K P A C Lalitha, Mamukoya, Lakshmi Priya and Chembil Ashokan are their in the colony taking on some satirical caricatures who turnout to become inspirations for Vidhya, who ultimately restarts her studies and turn a new leaf in life.

Bottom Line

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Katha Thudarum - Sathyan has a winner in ‘Katha Thudarum’

Director Sathyan Anthikkad in his fifty's movie ‘Kathu Thudarum’ has come up with an offering that is a bit atop of his regular melodrama formula flicks. He is here, amidst an engaging storyline with a layer of social satire sprinkled through almost every scene, without taking that preachy line of his previous movies like ‘Innathe Chinthavishayam’.