Sahodaran Sahadevan (Malayalam - Video)

Trouble with double
Sahodaran Sahadevan
Starring: Mukesh, Jagadish, Augustine, Geethu Mohandas
Lyrics: Sudhamshu
Music: MG Anil
Editing: PC Mohanan
Cinematography: Tony
Script: Ambadi Haneefa
Direction: Sunil
Tetco Video

After nearly two-and-a-half hours of Sahodaran Sahadevan, you understand the Sahodaran bit but where on heck did Sahadevan come from? Or did you miss something?
The makers felt they had latched on to a novel plot when they brought in twin-brothers, and promptly killed one of them and left the other to live through amnesia. There is a thread of ingenuity there, no doubt, but how do you explain two newly-married girls not sure who will become widow when the cloud of amnesia lifts? And how can you weave a comedy into such a painful situation and hope others will laugh?
Sahodaran Sahadevan survives on slapstick but that doesn't the film far. The director and script-writer employs every possible trick in the book to raise a few laughs and succeeds only partially.
Mukesh plays a doctor and a finance owner — the two characters, apart from their job profile, do not have strikingly different individualities, which could be a deliberate effort to add on to the ensuing confusion. Whatever, both find their girls of choice and marry only to meet up with an accident.
From now on, the film is in no-man's turf. The script goes haywire and the rush to conclude the proceedings takes upper-hand. A mental sanitarium segment is evidence of the creative bankruptcy working overtime.
Sahodaran Sahadevan does not even have good performances. Mukesh is ill at ease and rarely does the director tap into the actor's comic brilliance. Jagadish is jaded and Machan Varghese makes little impact. The heroines have little to do; Geethu Mohandas happily overacts.
Songs are forgettable, and when they come, it's time to press FF.
Sahodaran Sahadevan might be remembered for only element: It presented Mukesh in a long double-role. But what a waste of talent, double, to boot.