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Thobama Movie Review {2.5/5}: The film is an average fare with a few ...

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Debut director Mohsin Kassim has brought together the Premam team of Sharafudheen, Siju Wilson, Krishna Shankar and Shabareesh Varma inThobama. The film transports the audience into the lives of the three close friends Thommi (Sharafudheen), Balu (Siju Wilson) and Manaf (Krishna Shankar) who struggle to achieve their dreams in life and hence opt for short cuts to success. Their journey including their cute confessions and the umpteen ways they tried to succeed are filled with moments that are sure to make some audience laugh out loud.  Thommi dreams of becoming a wealthy businessman and despite his multiple attempts, the results have been the same. Meanwhile, the chubby Manaf wants to be a movie star but his inferiority complex due to his size keeps getting in the way. Balu is an MCom student, whose life is revolved around Thommi and Manaf.  The film happens in 2007 and the youths display saccharine innocence and bonding that mirrors the friendship of Nivin and his friends...
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Aravindante Adhithikal Review {3/5}: The movie has an eighties feel ...

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A child left alone in a crowded space, wandering about looking for parents. It’s one of the most disturbing sights ever and there are also people who have had such brief, scary experiences in childhood, only to be reunited with those who were looking for them. What if you have to live your whole life with such a traumatic image leftover from childhood? Aravindante Athidhikal is the tale of such a young man and the travails he goes through in life because of it.  Aravindan (Vineeth Sreenivasan) always has a smile on his face and canvasses people tirelessly in bus stops and taxi stands, looking for customers for the small lodge he runs with his foster father Madhavan (Sreenivasan) at Mookambika. Even as he appears to be as joyful as ever, he harbours a lot of pain within, and is on an endless wait for someone. Unlike everyone at Mookambika, he does not go for the deity’s darshan. Varada (Nikhila Vimal), who takes accommodation in his lodge, becomes a catalyst for some unpreced...
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