Madhura Naranaga Malayalam Movie Review

A career that started on an upward way suddenly took a downward trend way too quickly after two back to back duds at the box office. I am talking about director Sugeeth who tasted big success at the box office through Ordinary but could not repeat the same level of victory for his next two ventures 3 Dots and Onnum Mindaathay.
Now the director is back with his fourth film titled Madhura Naaranga. Keeping a low expectation based on Sugeeth's last couple of films I was expecting a bitter lemon but it proved wrong as this lemon just like the title is in fact sweet. It is also a lesson for many including myself that you cannot write off anyone based on their past. They can come back anytime and Madhura Naranaga amply justify that.
Salim, Jeevan and Kumar are thick friends sharing very good rapport. The former two are cab drivers and all three are working in UAE. Thamara, a Srilankan girl enter their life and rest of the story focus on the incidents that pass through the life of the three men as well as the girl.
The film is a clean entertainer that passes through different terrain added with every element required for a commercial film. It has humour, sentiments, emotions and it also makes you cry at times. To back up these, Madhura Naranaga has a well woven storyline and this story is narrated without giving lagness to the presentation. Romance and love are also part of the proceedings and they have been treated quite well without deviating from the main plot.
Direction is definitely on the positive side as Sugeeth has executed the story and script at his disposal with care. Giving prominence to fun and humour in the first half and the balance tilting in favour of more serious drama and sentiments in the latter half, Madhura Naranaga is neatly packed so that the audience watching the film are not heading towards the disappointing side.
Biju Menon, Kunchacko and Neeraj Madhav had a perfect chemistry between them. Humour part was handled well by the three but more by Biju and Neeraj. When it came to intense situations all three were good but Chackochan outshone the other three.
Parvathy Ratheesh makes a decent debut and had a good onscreen chemistry as a couple with Chackochan. Whoever has dubbed for the heroine deserves a word of mention here. Rest of the supporting actors like Sadhique and Aparna Nair were notable in their brief roles.
Good camera work, finely edited with good background score. Music by Yuuvh fame Sachin Sreejith duo was neatly tuned giving a perfect musical touch but the number of songs was more unnecessarily adding to the overall running time.
In a nutshell, the film gives a satisfactory feeling after coming out from the cinema halls and is recommended to every class of audience especially the family group. I am going with three and a half out of five for Madhura Naranaga and a thumbs up to Sugeeth this time. Yes, the Ordinary team is back!!!
Rating - 3.5 / 5