Meri Awas Suno

I watched Meri Awas Suno on Disney+Hotstar in orig. Malayalam w/Eng. Subs., not really knowing what to expect.

Turned out to be a well made film, educating the viewer about the problems faced by those who lose their larynx.

Shankar (Jayasuriya) is a chain smoking popular radio jockey (RJ) running the prime Meri Awas Suno FM show. He is popular with his colleagues and empathetic to his callers, managing to prevent a young girl caller from jumping off a rooftop. At an awards show, he suddenly finds he has lost his voice. A medical check up leads to an emergency procedure and the removal of his larynx. Shankar's life as an RJ is virtually over and he is desolate, unable to come to terms with his situation. With the encouragement of his wife Meryl (Shivada), his doctor and his radio station boss Moorthy (Johny Antony), he starts personal speech rehabilitation with effervescent Dr Reshmi (Manju Warrier). Reshmi tells him upfront that he will not get his voice back but introduces him to others who are in a similar larynx-less situation who have learnt to use voice stimuli to gain some sort of speech function. With Reshmi's intensive training, encouragement and friendship, Shankar also gradually learns how to use these devices to the point that he can manage to accomplish an electronic sounding voice. In the process of his rehabilitation, Reshmi and Shankar become very close albeit in a platonic manner. However Meryl is very unhappy and suspicious. Once Shankar manages to master the stimulation device, Meryl asks Reshmi to step back and leave Shankar to her care only going forward. In the meantime, Moorthy has come up with a new kids radio show helmed by a robot voice ... ideal for Shankar. Shankar is not absolutely confident but the first program is a success and there is no looking back. Reshmi is shown on a flight to Kashmir where her husband is based.

The narration beautifully deals with the real problems faced by those who permanently lose their power of speech, relationships, misunderstandings etc. It is a human story and very watchable.

JayaSurya's yet another performance oriented character selection and he does justice to it. There are some good music blend with the movie and also the radio jockey plot is effective for the story. Shivada is apt for the role and done well

Manju warrior is over acting and appear quite artificial again. Main problem is that the movie is mostly predictable and slow. Nothing engaging for the most part.

Another movie that I had to skip fast forward to complete.

We were eager to experience the Malayali touch after enjoying the original Bengali version Konttho. It was unfortunate to see that the movie didn't bring something new

DELICIOUS

-Meri Awas Suno sent out a huge warning on the extreme consequences of smoking and in Shankar's case, the throat cancer threatened his flourishing career.

-The make-up team accomplished a wonderful job on Shankar (pre and post-surgery)

-Performance was simply sublime across actors, no comments🙌

-It was so important to see Shankar's progressive journey after surgery: how he was affected mentally, spiritually, physically, emotionally, and relationally.

The director took his time to display the various people who helped motivate him

BLAND

-Editing and cinematography were regrettably not smooth. Some of the drone footage were not controlled and scene cuts were very sharp at times

-Though Shankar was given plenty of lessons and signs about the care he had to render to his family, we never saw him implementing them at all😬

-The film didn't have its unique Malayali flavor except for tiny changes, making us wonder about the need for a remake.

Meri awas suno is an over-dramatic movie that works in very few parts for me. Some drama would have looked better on paper, but the execution falls in same preachy, melodramatic area which is a hard watch. Prajesh Sen is kind of repeating himself with lesser effect each time and this time falling into a renjith sankar plus jis joyish zone. Even though jayasurya is in his typical character zone, it is his performance that carries the film and atleast help us to sit through the film. Shivada was also good but her character was also on and off, especially after considering the impressive wife characters in othrr prajesh movies. Manju warrier had the charm but nothing impressive to point out from her performance as the character doesn't offer much space.

This is why I love Jayasuriya a lot. When I see him on screen he always do some magic and just take us to some other planet and give us the feeling that we are witnessing this experience for the first time ever. It might be seems like I exaggerating the things but the movie actually take you to another dimension and when you explain the movie, It will be like Exaggerating the things. Please watch the movie, it's a different kind of movie, different experience, different angle of life, different feelings, different scenarios. Thank you Jayasurya for taking part in this movie.