Jaladhara Pumpset Since 1962

Sitting through this movie was one of the toughest experiences I've had. The storyline felt like it was lifted straight from a moral studies textbook. If you've seen a drama or play, imagine that style translated into film.

The writers aimed to highlight the slow processing of the Indian judicial system, but they chose a flimsy plot and stretched it thin.

In the story, Mani (Indrans) is caught trying to steal a motor pump from Mrinalini (Urvashi) and Chandran's (Vijayaraghavan) home. Mrinalini wants to let him go, but Chandran insists that people should face the consequences of their actions. Even after Chandran's death, Mrinalini pursues the case to uphold her husband's principles, while the court continually postpones hearings.

To illustrate the struggles caused by this slow process, the filmmakers attempted to inject humor, which reminded me of stage plays. Unfortunately, the comedy felt outdated, similar to early 2000s skits. Almost every scene featured a background score that felt like a play/drama. The subplot involving Mrinalini's daughter and her helper fell flat, only adding to the film's length. TG Ravi had one decent scene, but poor execution made it cringeworthy. It was painfully obvious that the sets were made-up, particularly the canteen.

As the film neared its conclusion, frustration mounted as Mrinalini's decisions seemed utterly illogical.

Even Urvashi couldn't save this film. Perhaps older audiences might find it passable, but I definitely wouldn't recommend wasting time on it.

An utter failure of a movie.

The makers tried to incorporate many social issues, but miserably failed each and every one of them. The characters lack any direction. The main character of the movie, Mrinalini teacher, played by Urvashi is a "model" teacher, who lacks common sense. Forget plot holes, each character in this movie feels like a different person in every scene. There is no character arc for any of the characters. Scenes and dialogues seem like they are copied from many good movies, but the inability makers cannot even do that properly

The subjects include delays in judicial proceedings, father daughter bonding, mother daughter bonding, romance, love, sufferings undergone by parents and children etc, all of which they failed miserably to present.

The main character, while trying to make it feel like she is empathetic and naive, the makers of the movie made her say and do so many foolish things, that she turned out to be an idiot. They even tried to bring "mass" to some characters at some point, which were also futile attempts.

Shots and background music were good, but the storyline of the movie was so poor that they went to waste.

Movie tries to portrait the slowness of Indian judiciary but ended up in making a utter slow movie with no idea how to end it.

The director could have used the same story to make a short film of 20 mins.

The movie pathetically failed to give any social message, which, if was given, would be at lease make the movie watchable. Lot of unnecessary characters. The main character played by Urvashi lost its direction towards the interval.

Unwanted situations / "comedy" scenes were included to make the movie long and eventually made the movie lagged.

Watch it if you like Urvashi a lot otherwise watch some other movies. Still, I don't understand who gives more than 5 rating for movies like these.