Sunday, March 22, 2009

Manichitrathazhu


Newly weds Nakulan (Suresh Gopi) and Ganga (Shobana) arrive at their ancestral tharavad to live there for a few months. A legend surrounds the house that a spirit of a young dancer who was brutally murdered centuries ago, haunts it. Rumor is that her spirit is contained in part of a house that is no longer opened. Paying scant attention to the pleas of their relatives, the young honeymooners throw open the doors. Soon things start to go bump in the night and people suspect that the dancer's spirit has possessed someone in the household. In exasperation Nakulan persuades his psychiatrist friend Dr. Sunny (Mohanlal) to come down and put an end to all the nonsense. A rare thriller infused with graceful comedy that won critical acclaim and box success in 1993, holds it ground even today.

Rating: * * *

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