Review: Mukundan Unni Associates
Director Abhinav Sundar Nayak’s ‘Mukundan Unni Associates’ is an entertaining dark comedy that is remarkably and refreshingly different
Director Abhinav Sundar Nayak's 'Mukundan Unni Associates' is an entertaining dark comedy that is remarkably and refreshingly different
Film: Mukundan Unni Associates
Director: Abhinav Sunder Nayak
Writers: Abhinav Sunder Nayak & Vimal Gopalakrishnan
Cast: Vineeth Srinivasan, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Tanvi Ram, Arsha Baiju and others
Music: Sibi Mathew Alex
Cinematography: Viswajith Odukkathil
Rating: 3.5 stars
Director Abhinav Sundar Nayak’s ‘Mukundan Unni Associates’ is an entertaining dark comedy that is remarkably and refreshingly different from your regular entertainers.
The film delights on several counts. For a start, it does not look to present the altruistic side of human beings and portray them as heroes as most other films do. Rather, it shows human beings for what they are.
In fact, the film starts off with the declaration that all human beings are grey in nature.
Simply put, this isn’t the story of a hero. It is the story of a villain and a really heartless, wicked, cold calculating one at that.
The most important reason which makes Mukundan Unni Associates stand out is the manner in which its plot has been conceived and presented.
The story is very close to reality and that makes it very relatable. It is about how Mukundan Unni (Vineeth Srinivasan) a highly calculative, unscrupulous and ambitious lawyer, who is looking for his first case, actually stumbles upon the modus operandi of another lawyer (Suraj Venjaramoodu) who is busy exploiting the loopholes in the legal system to make obscene amounts of money through claims in accident cases.
It doesn’t take the street smart Unni long to realise that this is a system he can make his own. In other words, he knows that if he monopolises the process, he will soon be ruling the roost.
He uses every dirty trick in the book, first to also get into the game and then, he goes all out to eliminate competition. What happens then is what the film is all about…
The film holds a mirror to society to show how inhuman humans have become. It shows how those with ambition look to prey on the weak, the infirm and the vulnerable, without neither remorse nor pity.
The mind voice of Mukundan, everytime he sees a person, is just a fantastic idea that makes the film very refreshing. His thoughts, his judgements and his plans are all expressed as his mind voice for the sake of the audience, even as he remains mum on screen.
Vineeth Srinivasan, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Tanvi Ram and Arsha Baiju all deliver fantastic performances. Viswajith Odukkathil’s visuals are lively and realistic and Sibi Mathew Alex’s background score is apt. But it is the work of writers Abhinav Sunder Nayak and Vimal Gopalakrishnan that defines ‘Mukundan Unni Associates’. What fantastic writing! Both writers need to take a bow!
Without doubt, ‘Mukundan Unni Associates’ is a must watch!
