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Odum Raja Adum Rani Review
- 12/2/2014 11:50:52 AM
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Cast: Manikantan Pattambi, Tini Tom, Sreelekshmi SreekumarDirection: Biju VarmaGenre: DramaDuration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Story:The film tells the story of Thamburu, a homosexual who struggles to find his space in an insensitive society.
Review: It's always a delight to watch a film which has an engaging script and natural dialogues, regardless of the genre and subject. Biju Varma's Odum Raja Adum Rani is one such. The title might suggest a comedy entertainer but the film is anything but that. In fact it is one of those rare films which treats homosexuality in an unabashedly real but sensitive manner, without packagingthe film into a comedy where the man with the confused gender identity is portrayed in a comic manner, and 'cured' at the end.
Manikantan Pattambi (of Marimayam fame) who has written the script, plays the main character as well, that of Thamburu, a man who is attracted to men. The point of view is from that of Venkidi (Tini Tom) a rough andhearty character who is all man - he and friends spend their days drinking, ogling women and doing everything else heterosexual men supposedly do in their small village. Thamburu, who arrives as Venkidi's new house mate, doesn't drink or ogle at women, instead loves cooking for Venkidi, cleaning the house and dressing himself up as a woman, albeit in secret, all of which makes him an object of ridicule. Thamburu develops a crush on Venkidi who is first amused, and later disturbed by his friend's possessiveness.
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