Aadu

Slapstick is all that you will find in Midhun Manuel Thomas's debut directorial, Aadu. I was forced to catch this film after they released a sequel to a staggering success in 2017, but I am still not convinced if Aadu is a film that I can relate with. Jayasurya plays Shaji Paapan, the head of a motley crew of dimwits who receive a youngling goat as prize after they win a game of tug-of-war. Unable to decide what they should do with this undesired prize, they end up at the wrong places. Soon they find themselves entangled in a web of mad events as people from different walks of life scramble to find a mysterious thing only known as "Neela Koduveli". The intro songs that have been produced for each major character is something that will make you laugh and it arguably stays the number one highlight of the film, the second being the electric performances of the entire cast. There is occasional comic dialogues and pop culture references that can amuse the informed audience, but Aadu is largely a film made for people who enjoy mindless comedies. It's non-stop if you look at it that way, otherwise Thomas's debut venture, Aadu, is an average affair, much below his second outing, Ann Maria Kalipillanu (2016). TN.