Doctor Innocentanu Malayalam Movie

There is very little in the film that would truly excite even an ordinary viewer who is out in the cinema hall just to have a good time. May 7, 2012 By Veeyen

Its 2012, and sometimes a film does get made that makes you get aboard a time machine, and drops you some where a good twenty years back. If I remember right, it was way back in 1990 that Sreenivasan's classic film 'Thalayana Manthram' was released, and a couple of decades later it gets revamped into 'Doctor Innocentaanu'.

The basic premise of the two films remains the same; of a nagging wife who would stop at nothing to see that her husband makes some quick money. While Sreenivasan played the confounded husband in the former film, its Innocent who plays him in 'Doctor Innocentaanu'.

The protagonist is a Homeopathic doctor in the film and this has been shown to be adding to his woes. His wife (Sona Nair) is least impressed by the stream of medicine and is often seen advising all and sundry not to mention 'Homeopathic' when talking of her husband. A mere 'doctor' would do, she adds.

It's pretty much the same how she leads him along to doom. The event is a friend's marriage and a gold chain of ten sovereigns plays the villain. The doctor goes begging to the neighbor's house to get the gold chain for wifey, and no prizes for guessing that the chain is lost!

Thus it's along much treaded ways that 'Doctor Innocentaanu' proceeds to a humdrum climax where it all ends up precisely as we had expected it to be. Greed leads to destruction, seems to be the adage that is proclaimed, and no harm in it except that the assertion is made in an extremely dreary way.

It's indeed a tough job to come up with genuine stories these days, and as they say there are very few stories on the earth. The difference then, lies in the way the stories are told, and some of them at least do make you discard the old bottle and go for the wine instead. No such luck with 'Doctor Innocentaanu' though.

The film has two of the best actors in business, and they do not really disappoint. Innocent is his usual self mostly, while Sona Nair makes remarkable use of a biggie role that has come her way. She is quite good, and does a decent job of delivering the role that she has grabbed with aplomb.

All said and done, 'Doctor Innocentaanu' is a clean family film that doesn't resort to easy ways out to draw in an audience. And yet, there is very little in it that would truly excite the ordinary viewer who is out in the cinema hall just to have a good time.