Mukundan Unni Associates review: This Malayalam film is seriously funny

Mukundan Unni Associates: A wildly humorous and distressingly serious film

By PS Arjun November 11 2022 Read the article Entertainment

We don’t see many dark comedies in Malayalam. It starts like a comedy movie and slowly shifts its path to a psychopath film.

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Mukundan Unni’s mind-voice one-liners are the most hilarious part of the flick. We cannot predict when he will say or do anything amusing, or smack someone over the head.

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All this results in a movie that is wildly humorous and yet distressingly serious and upsetting.

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Suraj Venjaramoodu has always been first-class in short roles. Here, he is terrific throughout.

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The script, written by Vimal Gopalakrishnan and Nayak, interweaves its small group of characters into a simple comedy thriller.

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Sachin Warrier’s cinematography is beautiful, with a clear sense of style and atmosphere. Sibi Mathew Alex’s music score is quite lovely.

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The movie is not perfect. It slows down in some parts. It is a bit long and gets silly, too. However, despite the flaws, it is largely entertaining.

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