‘Meri Awas Suno’ review: Emotional pull drives the film, despite its predictable content

Fascinating are the methods through which individuals assemble their very own identities, selecting rigorously the elements that current to the skin world. Radio Jockey Shankar (Jayasurya) has related his id along with his voice to such a stage that he politely refuses a request from his boss to look dwell on Fb, in order that the radio station might money in on his recognition. The RJ places in a pleasant plea, to let the world know him solely by his voice.

For such an individual, dropping his voice one wonderful day would make him really feel as if he have been wiped away from the face of the earth. Prajesh Sen’s third movie ‘Meri Awas Suno’ chronicles Shankar’s wrestle to deal with larynx most cancers (most cancers of the voice field) and his makes an attempt to beat it. A remake of the 2019 Bengali movie ‘Konttho’, the movie sticks to the same old template of tales the place people battle towards all odds, banking on the highly effective emotional pull of the story.

Feelings are one thing RJ Shankar makes use of too to drag within the viewers in his well-liked radio exhibits, of which we get a good glimpse early on, earlier than he’s struck down by sickness. He imparts life classes, worldly recommendation and way more by his exhibits. The screenwriter turns an prolonged sequence, the place a younger lady, sitting precariously on the fringe of the terrace of a high-rise flat, calls Shankar on the present to speak about her troubles, into an exhibition of why the RJ has turn out to be well-liked with the broader viewers. Regardless of its handy emotional play and the parallels with Shankar’s personal life, as he’s additionally too busy to spend time along with his personal child, that scene works.

It really works in conveying to us as to what Shankar has misplaced, and the listeners too. However the script additionally offers ample house for the struggles of his spouse Meryl (Sshivada), a tv anchor, who has taken go away from job to care for Shankar. Reshmi (Manju Warrier), a speech therapist with some unconventional strategies, takes up the job of a private voice coach for Shankar. A few of her strategies and theories to problem him to beat his difficulties makes one ponder whether any skilled therapist would resort to such strategies.

Jayasurya’s function right here may convey again reminiscences of ‘Su Su Sudhi Vathmeekam’, which additionally had him battling speech difficulties, however it’s also a testomony to how a lot he has grown as an actor since then, taking on roles that may problem him. There may be at all times a little bit of Jayasurya in a lot of his roles, but one may see him craving to be higher with every passing movie.

Regardless of the predictable methods through which the movie proceeds, as most movies with such themes are sure to, the writers have weaved in simply sufficient conflicts and emotional turmoil to maintain it not less than mildly partaking all by.