STORY

Priyalal (Sharafudeen), Denny Kokken (Aju Varghese), and Shibu Majeed (Govind Padmasurya), the three college friends decide to have a reunion and come together for a fun-filled vacation. But they experience some unusual incidents during their holiday. The trio seeks the help of a priest, who introduces them to John Don Bosco (Jayasurya), a mentalist. John's entry entirely changes the situation and turns their lives upside down. The movie depicts how the mentalist influences the trio's life.

 

REVIEW

Ranjith Sankar, the writer of the first ever horror TV serial of Malayalam industry, Nizhalukal, is venturing into the horror comedy genre for the first time. Pretham is the third collabortaion of actor-director duo Jayasurya-Ranjith Sankar, after the success of Su Su Sudhi Vathmeekam.

The movie centres around three friends - Denny Kokken (Aju Varghese), Shibu Majeed (Govind Padmasoorya) and Priyalal (Sharafudheen) - who pool in their savings to run a coastal resort. The first half of the movie is dedicated to the trio’s friendship. Their happy lives take an expected turn after two of them tries to hit on a Zumba student (Pearle Maaney). Some unexpected events occur at the resort forcing them to approach a priest named John Don Bosco.

Jayasurya did well as John Don Bosco, the exceptionally talented mentalist. The movie's strength is its comic lines between the friends - Aju Varghese, Govind Padmasoorya, and Sharafudeen. The rest of the star cast include Shruthi Ramakrishnan, Devan, Harish Perady, Dharmajan Bolgatty, Sunil Sughatha have done their part well.

Ranjith Shankar and his narration of the film was decent. The dialogues written for and given to each characters were apt.

First half of the movie ended with thrilling feature. Second half of the movie delivered a complete supsense thrilling experince on the whole for the movie.

 The movie is a complete entertainment package, with ample amount of suspense.