Hello Namasthe Malayalam Movie

Two hours of ceaseless rattle and clatter is what 'Hello Namaste' is all about. With a script that has had a ripe and rotting jackfruit drop all over it, this one is a real mess that will have you fleeing for your lives. Feb 19, 2016 By Veeyen

'Hello Namaste' is apparently what a hit morning programme on an FM radio station in Cochin is called. The duo of radio jockeys who run the programme - Madhav (Vinay Fort) and Jerry (Sanju Shivram) - are much more than colleagues with a tremendous chemistry between them. They are inseparable buddies as well, who know each other inside out.

There is trouble in chum paradise with the arrival of women folk. Or at least that is what the film suggests. Madhav is already married to Priya (Bhavana), while Jerry elopes with his ex-girlfriend Anna (Mia George), whom he decides on the spur of the moment to make his girlfriend again on the eve of her marriage!

At the core of the plot is a jackfruit tree that stands on Jerry's plot with a few branches leaning towards Madhav's courtyard. With dry leaves and fruits strewn all over the place, Priya sees red and very soon blows her fuse. Not one to be left behind, Anna follows suit and in no time, the wives have their husbands battling with each other as well.

So this is that story of friends turned foes that has almost every juncture in it as unsurprising as it could ever be. The dialogues are not up to scratch as well, and it's no wonder then that the film is unable to score even a few palpable hits.

The long stretches of worthlessness does start getting to the viewer after a while, and the false starts seem to be continuing way into the film, and right through out till the very last frame. None of its moments are especially amusing, and when a film as this falls really low in the laughter quotient, its fate seems pretty well sealed.

There are several other characters who join the dissonance as well. There is Jayamohan (Joju George), the MD of the FM station, Abu (Soubin Shahir), the peon, Achayan (P Balachandran), the neighbour with an evil eye, the newswoman (Muthumani) on the lookout for a story that sells, and so on.

Vinay Fort and Sanju Shivram do their best to retrieve the film from the drain that it had fallen into, but end up worn out and exhausted. Bhavana and Mia, along with actors as Joju and Soubin pitch in their bits too, but in vain. There is not a word to be said about the technical aspects either, since ultimately none of it serves any purpose.

Two hours of ceaseless rattle and clatter is what 'Hello Namaste' is all about. With a script that has had a ripe and rotting jackfruit drop all over it, this one is a real mess that will have you fleeing for your lives.