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Punyalan Agarbattis Review|
- 12/27/2013 4:16:34 AM
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The delicious self-critique that Ranjith Sankar's 'Punyalan Agarbathis' indulges in makes it an absorbing and well-made social satire, the darts of which hit the bull's eye. A jubilant film that is invariably entertaining, it makes use of liberal healthy doses of humor to drive home the points that it has in mind.
Joy Thakkolkaran (Jayasurya), the proprietor of Punayalan Agarbathis, has been waging a court battle against the Devaswom Board, for having refused to hand over elephant dung to a Christian. Joy does win the case, but the whole world seems to be conspiring against him, determined to drag his dreams down to dust
Thakkolkaran is a delegate of the educated Malayali youngster population, who holds three postgraduate degrees - in Business Administration, Social Welfare and Psyhcology - and is yet frantically striving to do something worthwhile in life. While he converses in halting, yet assured English, he definitely looks like a wizard of words when he switches over to his mother tongue.
Very rarely does a film maker exhibit a consistency when it comes to an affinity towards certain themes, and Ranjith Sankar in his fourth film surprisingly carries forward his hilarious assault on Malayali names even further. Greenu is no ordinary name, and the young man has probably over the years learned to live with the disreputation that his parents had bestowed on him. There is the aide at the agarbathi factory who has been named Jibru,
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