Poi solla poram

Yours truly
The message is straight and simple. Poi Solla Porom, tells us, through delicious tongue-in-cheek satire, that it's okay to use unfair means to get what's rightfully yours.

It’s not an easy job to remake comedy movies. However, director Vijay has emerged triumphant in Poi Solla Porom, a honest remake of Bollywood flick Khosla Ka Ghosla.

When Nedumudi Venu loses his precious plot of land to real estate bigwig Nasser, he plans along with his sons Karthik, Omar and daughter Justina to get it back. Helping them out is Karthik’s girlfriend Piya, her father (Mouli) and their team, running a drama group. The entire group plays brilliant tricks against Nasser and wins back their lost properties.

The film is straightforward in its depiction of the working-class stress. It is done so simply that you tend to miss the immeasurable amounts of unassuming talent and comedy that underline almost every scene of this remarkable film.
The narrative captures the muddle and poignancy, irony and humour of the middleclass through a storytelling device where less is always more. A delectable understatement underlines almost every character's propulsion in this film about how to lose the plot to gain a much larger plot.

All the actors perform like our next door neighbours. Such is their attempts to come out with reality. Director Vijay fills the narrative with sharply cut incidents and episodes of an ordinary family caught in an extra-ordinary crisis. Apart from a few deliberately thrust thematic songs, music director M G Sreekumar (noted singer in Malayalam) economises on the drama to focus on the characters and their quirks.

On the journey to PSP's happy ending, we encounter characters like someone you've met in that long journey called life.

Poi Solla Porom – Laugh riot