Varshangalkku Shesham 2024 Varshangalkku Shesham

Film · 2024 · Malayalam · Comedy

Varshangalkku Shesham

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166 min 11 Apr 2024
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Varshangalkku Shesham

In the early 1970s, Venu is a high schooler who devotes all of his time to helping out in traveling plays when they stop in his hometown. One night, the producer of a play asks him to bring an instrumentalist, Murali, from the house of the local landlord. Drunk, Murali reluctantly agrees to play for the evening. Venu is thoroughly impressed with the man's spontaneous musicality and they quickly become friends. As time passes, Venu goes to college; Murali shows up there one day, trying to meet the principal to borrow a new book that has reached the college library. Venu offers to help and discovers that the book has already been lent to a first-year student named Annie. Murali, on meeting Annie, instantly falls in love with her. They meet that night to exchange the book and continue seeing each other. Murali asks her out, but is met with shock and rejection. She tells him to leave, revealing that she is sexually involved with her brother-in-law. Murali is shattered by the news and disappears for a while. One day, he writes to Venu that he is leaving for Madras with the intention of making it in cinema; Venu decides to join him. They rent out a room in Kodambakkam where Murali lands a job as a violinist under music director Indra Dhanush. After playing the violin for a B-movie, Murali meets the producer of the film, Keshavadev. He tells him that his film will flop massively. After the film flops, Murali introduces Keshavadev to Venu, who has the script for a prospective film.

Release
11 Apr 2024
Run time
166 min
Language
Malayalam

Reviews

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Critics' consensus

Mixed

Across 3 available source-linked Indian-media reviews for Varshangalkku Shesham, reception is mixed.

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Rediff
Vineeth Sreenivasan deserves applause for striving to blend the past with the present and revoking your memories.
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Hindustan Times
Director and writer Vineeth Sreenivasan has given us some excellent films earlier but this ‘love letter to cinema’ at 2 hours and 45 minutes does get trying after a while. He has been able to capture how the film industry was at that time peppering it with plenty of inside jokes, references to older directors, actors and films, and how survival deemed it necessary to manipulate people. Nostalgia abounds but the writing, unfortunately, is choppy. The first half is highly melodramatic and the tone completely shifts in the second half to humour and light-heartedness.
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The Indian Express
Anandu Suresh is a distinguished Deputy Copy Editor at The Indian Express Online, where he serves as a leading voice in cinematic critique and industry analysis. He is a Tomatometer-approved film critic and a Golden Globes voter. With over seven years of rigorous experience in the media landscape, he has established a reputation for incisive, long-form commentary that bridges the gap between commercial cinema and arthouse narratives. Experience & Career Anandu’s professional journey is rooted in a deep academic and practical foundation in the humanities and communication.
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Soundtrack

  • Jeevithagaadhakale

Technical specs

Release date
11 Apr 2024
Run time
166 min
Language
Malayalam
Country
IN
Director
Vineeth Sreenivasan