Beautiful Film. 9 instead of 10 only because the build up was rather slow.
Prakashan Parakkatte streams on Zee5 in orig. Malayalam w/English subs.
This is a realistic poignant narration about an ordinary family of limited means, set in a rural community in the verdant foothills of the Western Ghats.
Prakashan (Dileesh Pothen) owns a small convenience shop. He lives in a modest house with his wife Latha, older son Dasan (Mathew Thomas) and much younger son Akhil (Ritunjay Sreejith). Latha's brother the somewhat dubious Kuttan (Saiju Kurup) is mostly in and out of their house as he is spoilt by his sister and sponges off his brother in law, though he is genuinely fond of his nephews.
Das is in PU but though he is intelligent, he lacks ambition and routinely fails a few subjects. Das is at that difficult stage of adolescence and Prakasha tries his best to understand him, while the mother is short tempered with Das though loving to the other child Akhil who is very cute and sweet, loved by all and good at art. Das and Akhil go to school together everyday, which though he loves his kid brother, irritates Das at times. While going in the bus, Das spots a girl Neethu (Malavika) whom he is attracted to. His best friend Anwar (Govind Pai) finds out that Neethu attends a tuition class, so the two of them also go to join that class. The tuition master waives their fees to shut them up as they have seen him misbehaving with some girl students.
All goes quite well until a sudden tragic incident takes place and life is turned upside down for Prakasha's family.
No Further Spoilers, watch the beautifully made film that realistically deals with the ups and downs of life and how the family deals with the hurdles that come their way.
Dileesh Pothen has excelled in his portrayal of Prakashan; every actor has convincingly enacted their role. The cinematography is beautiful, and the film is very well made.
