Happy husbands
Against all obviousness, I hoped that won't be a remake. My hope was shattered in the first title slide itself, in which the makers briefly declared that the film is inspired from Charlie Chaplin, which is a 2002 tamil film. But except for some minor modifications the film seem to be a scene-by-scene rip off of No Entry, the 2005 Bollywood smash hit which itself is 'inspired' from the Tamil original. As I sat exasperated, the film started with pathetically choreographed title song followed with a done-to-death cliche scene of heroine talking to a idol. I had lost all hopes when things started improving. Most of crowd obviously have not seen No Entry, and they seem to love the film. Their cheers got me more engaged and I think the film is a pretty decent rip-off. Jayaram deserves much of the credit, I guess. His mannerisms and body language were superb and at par with Anil kapoor's rollicking act in No Entry. In a role that made even Fardeen Khan look good, Jayasurya does nothing extra-ordinary. Though expanded compared to Sallu's role, Indrajith has nothing much to do. Suraj repeats his usual stuff and amusingly makes them work. The girls were pretty ordinary, including hot favorite Rima. The girl has a nice stylist, but her make-up man seems to a little bit too busy for her. A below-avarage effort from music department. Very average camera and sound. Ordinary editing. On any day I will go for No Entry over Happy Husbands, but if u have not seen the former, chances are that you might like the film.

I have to add, the tendency to rip off from other languages esp Hindi is alarming. We did copy a lot from hollywood, but most of them were modified and modulated pretty well. Now for the global Malayali, why are they serving the same dishes in different plates? Copying like this will kill creativity and hard work. Its certainly the easy way out, and it seems to be paying off too. Gulumal and Happy husbands are such shameful copies and they did/are doing decent business. Even Ividam Swargamanu took cues from bollywood. This is bad. And it might get worse. I'm scared.