Mayamohini


Mayamohini is a 2012 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film directed by Jose Thomas and written by Udayakrishna and Siby K. Thomas, starring Dileep in the title role with Biju Menon, Mohan Sharma, Baburaj, Raai Laxmi, Mythili and Spadikam George in supporting roles. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film was the highest grossing Malayalam film of the year. The movie was remade in Kannada as Jai Lalitha.
This movie generally received mixed reviews from the audience and was a blockbuster at the box office. It also became the highest grossing Malayalam movie of 2012.

Plot

A plane accident occurs in which a small child narrowly escapes, while his parents are dead. He is then looked after by his maternal uncle Appukuttan Nair, and all the family's wealth will be inherited by him. As per their astrologer, in the future he should marry a young woman whose star is Chothi, only then will he prosper in life. The boy grows up to be a young man named Balakrishnan, who is unsuccessful in anything he does.
He falls in love with Maya, the daughter of a wealthy businessman named Raj Kumar Patella, who is settled in Mumbai. When Patella learns about their relationship, he objects and Maya elopes with Balakrishnan. In the meantime, Balakrishnan's friend Advocate Lakshminarayanan alias Lakshmi, tries to convince Appukuttan about the marriage and he agrees to visit the couple. But then, on the second day of the marriage Maya leaves him, due to a misunderstanding and returns to Mumbai.
Balakrishnan didn't want Appukuttan to know that Maya left him, so he hires a woman Mayamohini to act as his wife, but it is revealed that Mayamohini is actually a man named Mohanakrishnan, whom the cops had been searching for. He had been put into a trap by Patella's manager Sanjay. Mohan reveals his true identity to Balakrishnan and he agrees to help him in his quest of finding his father Shankaran Potti, a temple priest. They travel to Mumbai and there they meet Maya, who is actually a club dancer named Katreena. Though confronted, she tells that Pattela is actually a wanted international criminal and she was cheated by him years ago when being tricked to work in his company. In the flashback, it turns out that Shankaran Potti was actually killed by Pattela and Sanjay to get hold of their property. Pattela is opening a new business in town and on the inauguration day has arranged some dance as well.
Mohan gets dressed up as Mayamohini again. Pattela invites 'her' to his room and tries to spend time with 'her'. In the meantime, the cops arrive to arrest Mohan. 'Mayamohini' reveals her true as Mohan to Pattela and confronts him, Sanjay and their henchmen with Balakrishnan's help. When one of Pattela's henchman tries to kill Balakrishnan, Sanjay gets accidentally killed. Mohan kills Pattela and avenges his father's death. Later, Mohan is released of his charges. Later, Lakshmi's family comes for an alliance with Mayamohini, not knowing the truth. His sister was also with him and her star is revealed to be Chothi much to the delight of Balakrishnan.

Cast

There are four tracks in the movie, Berny–Ignatius was music director.

Track listing

Reception

Critical response

Metro Matinee rated the film as Entertaining and said "Mayamohini certainly follows the same old formula, but even then it is a fairly enjoyable ride." Sify rated the film as a Comedy Caper and said "With a briskly paced first half and a more serious second half, Mayamohini still turn out to be a nice option, for the summer holidays."

Box office

The film was commercial success. The film grossed ₹16.5 crore from 25 days in Kerala box office. In 50 days it grossed 18 crore from Kerala box office. The film collected 15,631 from UK box office. The film grossed a total of ₹22 crore from the box office.