Hello Mummy movie review: Sharaf U Dheen, Aishwarya Lekshmi’s horror comedy keeps flapping its wings, but fails to take off

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However, Bony’s beingness takes a melodramatic crook erstwhile his brother-in-law Thomson (Adhri Joe), who runs a matrimony bureau, brings Stephy’s connection (Aishwarya Lekshmi). A Junior Research Fellowship recipient, she lives with her father, retired mathematics prof Samuel (Jagadish). Nonetheless, her beingness is thing but mean arsenic her mother, Grace, who passed distant decades agone portion they were surviving successful Shimla, continues to beryllium with Stephy arsenic a spirit, controlling each facet of the latter’s beingness and the household, and that excessively to an obsessive degree. When Stephy explains this unusual world to Bony, helium assumes she’s making it up to get escaped of him. Instead of backing off, helium pretends to judge her story, promising to determination into her location aft marriage, arsenic per mummy’s demand, and abide by the rules acceptable by her spirit. His mindset and cognition present impressment Stephy since nary of her erstwhile imaginable matches showed specified care. However, Bony’s romanticist dreams of a cleanable beingness with Stephy are soon shattered erstwhile helium realises that Grace’s tone is precise existent — and firmly successful complaint of the household. Spoiled, disorganised and careless, Bony rapidly finds himself connected the receiving extremity of Grace’s punishments, often successful the signifier of beatings, whenever helium steps retired of line. However, with her interference becoming progressively overbearing, Bony and Stephy conflict to pb a peaceful joined life, with adjacent their carnal narration becoming intolerable nether her watchful eye. The remainder of the movie explores however the couple, peculiarly Bony, navigates this antithetic predicament and tries to resoluteness the chaos caused by Grace’s lingering presence.

Hello Mummy is 1 of those films that conflict to find a wide code oregon voice, leaving it successful a changeless loop of uncertainty without ever settling into thing cohesive oregon afloat engaging. From the start, Sanjo Joseph’s publication and Vaishakh’s absorption neglect to present the comedy, lone evoking anemic smiles from audiences. By relying excessively overmuch connected familiar, clichéd moments that travel with portraying characters similar Bony, the movie is incapable to support the viewers engaged and some the humour and situations travel crossed arsenic half-baked oregon forced.

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After Stephy’s introduction, Hello Mummy’s woes intensify, peculiarly owing to its inability to determine whether to absorption much connected the increasing romance betwixt the 2 oregon the comedy. The effect is simply a lacklustre blend of both. While Sharaf and Aishwarya effort to marque the astir of their characters, the deficiency of standout moments for them soon begins to impact the movie and this contented lone deepens arsenic the communicative progresses. In summation to the leads, actors Jagadish, Johny Antony, Adhri Joe and Aju Varghese, who plays a true-crime podcaster surviving adjacent doorway to Stephy and Bony, besides effort to elicit laughs with their performances; but with precise fewer ‘witty’ lines oregon ‘jokes’ connected paper, the actors are near to trust connected carnal drama and a fewer different tricks successful their pockets. Even the moments erstwhile a quality delivers a ‘funny’ enactment and others on-screen laugh, walk disconnected without eliciting immoderate laughter from viewers and specified misfires, sadly, hap passim the movie.

After the instauration of Grace too, who is ne'er afloat shown arsenic a fig — successful flashback scenes either — but is alternatively felt done her spectral actions, specified arsenic throwing items and punishing Bony, Hello Mummy fails to present either effectual fearfulness oregon comedy, remaining a middling acquisition overall. Despite having moments that could person sparked laughter riots, akin to the chaotic room combat country successful Ee Parakkum Thalika (2001), these scenes extremity up being half-cooked. The deficiency of coagulated quality improvement — particularly the inconsistent dynamics betwixt assorted persons and their fluctuating reactions to the shade — adds to the film’s shortcomings. While Vaishakh and Sanjo effort to blend comedy, fearfulness and a spot of thrill, this premix feels uneven, peculiarly successful the climax, wherever the series ends up feeling disjointed.

Despite its ongoing originative shortcomings, Hello Mummy is mostly carried by the actors, particularly Sharaf U Dheen and Aishwarya Lekshmi. (Image: Vaishakh Elans/Facebook)

Despite its ongoing originative shortcomings, Hello Mummy is mostly carried by the actors, particularly Sharaf U Dheen, who stands retired passim the movie and his encounters with the mummy’s spectre and the punishments helium faces for his misdeeds are peculiarly amusing. Aishwarya Lekshmi besides delivers a beardown performance, peculiarly successful the much affectional scenes. However, it needs to beryllium emphasised that the histrion could payment from improving her dialog transportation and diction, arsenic occasional lapses detract from her show — issues that could easy beryllium avoided. While the movie doesn’t connection them galore memorable romanticist moments, making it hard to recognize wherefore Bony and Stephy stay unneurotic amidst the chaos, Sharaf and Aishwarya marque up for it with their performances, making their narration endearing. Though Jagadish and Adhri Joe don’t person standout moments, they marque the champion of what they’re fixed and negociate to impress. Despite Bindu Panicker’s ghostbuster quality having potential, particularly with her quest to regain her mislaid powers, Hello Mummy ruins her relation and adjacent her attempts astatine humour consciousness forced. Aju Varghese does a decent job, though his quality serves small intent and adds small to the film.

Jakes Bejoy’s inheritance people fits the code perfectly, though the aforesaid can’t beryllium said for the songs. The movie concisely features a remix of the iconic opus “Nizhalaay Ozhukivarum” from the 1979 fearfulness movie Kalliyankattu Neeli, but it feels underutilised, leaving 1 to wonderment wherefore it was wasted. Praveen Kumar’s cinematography and Chaman Chakko’s editing are impressive, portion Sabu Mohan’s accumulation plan is conscionable average. Sameera Saneesh does a bully occupation successful the costume department, though Ronex Xavier’s constitution occasionally feels excessive.

Hello Mummy movie cast: Sharaf U Dheen, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sunny Hinduja, Jagadish, Aju Varghese, Johny Antony, Bindu Panicker
Hello Mummy movie director: Vaishakh Elans
Hello Mummy movie rating: 2 stars