HRIDAYAM

The Vineeth Sreenivasan directorial shows different phases in the life of the protagonist Arun Neelakandan played by actor Pranav Mohanlal. His journey from being a Engineering student to a photographer and his love life and his two partners during the two different phases of his life is the storyline of the movie. The first and short lived relationship of Arun and Darshana(played by Darshana Rajendran) and the impact it has on their future is portrayed in the first half. The director though fails slightly to showcase the depth of the relationship between them but becomes successful in showing how a breakup should not be a way to be self destruction but how a person can move on and still be happy and have a healthy relationship further. The movie overall has some clichéd dialogues and a plot but the music upholds the movie, Hesham Abdul Wahab’s 15 songs elevates the movie to a next level. All the cast have shown a good performance and done their part well especially Kalyani Priyadarshan, Pranav Mohanlal and Darshana Rajendran. Keeping aside some faulty character development and improper depiction of complexities of the characters, the usual Vineeth Sreenivasan feel-goodness can be seen in this movie.