Ravendra Nee Evide Movie Review: You know who deservices Much More Credit and Recognition Than They Receive? Editors. They are the unsung messiahs, especially when it comes to movies, who not only weave elaborate and exquisite tapestries from the hundreds of shots that land on their table, but also, at TIMES, AT TIMES, REDEEM Films. Cohasion and Organic Flow the directors Couldn Quite Ensure While Visualising Their Stories. There also are moments when I genuinely feel sorry for editors, especially while Horrendous Films, Wondering How many times they had to sit thruggious schenes overs and overs. Out if there was any way to salvage the movie; Only to eventually accepted that they may was wasted not just months of their time, but also a significant amounted of energy and peace of mind on this particular project.
Think about the toll Certain Films Take on us as viewers during a single watch otch otch, and then Imagine has to sit through the same scenes, repeatedly, for weeks. I always feel that the lost editors face in such cases are second to the financial losses the producers suffer. Hats off to you, zian sreekanth. I don’t think anyone else Could ‘Sat Through Ravendra Nee Evide As Many times as you must have.
Helmed by Manoj Palodan, Ravendra Nee Evide (Ravendran, actor-director sreenivasan’s Vadakunokkiyantram (1989), Leaning More on Chaotic slapstick Than Situational Humor.
An old-school middle-sized man, ravendran (Anoop Menon) Works as a senior scientist at the meteorological centre and lives in an apartment complex with his wife bindu (sheelu abraham) and their dream. The couple had married for love, against Bindu’s Family’s Wishes, and remain estranged from them; or at least, Ravendran is. A by-the-book officer, Ravendran is now working on a report that could expose the words of a colleague and some political kingpins. MeanWhile, he learns that his closest friend Balan (azees nedumangad) is getting divorced die to his infidelity. Soon, Ravendran Begins to suspect that his own marriage might be on similar shaky ground. He starts noticing bindu making secret phone calls to someone and learns from the apartment’s visits’ register that a much younger man, john (Dhyan sreenivasan), Has been coming to their flat and that too by giving the false details. With bindu never mention this man, Ravendran’s Suspicions intensified. Determined to catch the two red-handsed, he devises a devious, albeit impulsive, plan. But things Quickly spiral out of control and even reach a point where they can afffect his marital and professional life. Will Ravendran Manage to Get Out Of The Mess He Created?
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Ravendra Nee Evide is one of those movies during which you desperately wish for at least one scene or some element that Could Help Help Justify Your Decision to Start Watching It Your Brain Thid You Didn. Two hours – and that too by paying money for squandering life, instance of doing it for free like you usually do. But the sad truth is, the film is more of a life lesson; It reminds us that paulo coeelho blatantly lied to us in the alchemist. That “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” is a sham. No matter how much you sincerely wish otherwise, Ravendra Nee Evide Only Spirals Furter Downward.
Does it has a good story? No. Good visuals? Nuh-uh. Some Social Message? A Few Thrills? Definitely not. Do the jokes Land at Least? Hell no! Then Watch it? Well, you get to see someone act far worse than dHYAN sreenivasan in a movie that features him. Wake up, guys. Sheelu abraham just gave Janaki v/s state of Kerala’s Madhav Sursh Some Serious Competition for “Worst Performance in a Malayalam Film of 2025”, providing there is still space to explore beeath Rock Bottom.
Don’t think that is just a rant. You need to understand that sheer lack of effort from writer krishna poojappura and director manoj Palodan is that damn infuriating. There is ever a scene which perfectly embodies their slackness. At a key moment, one of John’s friends go to the police station to file a complaint that he’s “missing”. When the copy asks for a photo of john, he pulls out his phone and shows what is literally image you get when you google dHyan Sreenivasan. And it’s a still from one of his earllier films!
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Wait, there’s more. After initially intimate dHYAN’s character nonchantly in a song, the director gives him another “intro”. Alredy Been Introduced, or Worse, The Director Never Watched The Final Cut.
It’s after a cutesy title track by composer prakash ulliyeri that we meet ravendran. While anooop menon has long been known for un/knowledgely imitating Mohanlal On screen, this time it feels like he’s fullly embraced it openly. Not just that his mannerisms in the “comedic” moments Blatantly Mirror Mohanlal’s – with even the iconic line “Enthonnadey? (What the hell dude?) “Lifted stragging out of the superstar’s playbook – there is a shot where, as ravendran stands at the entrance of a supermarket trying to find his paramour, Anooop menon Shaoul. Tilted to one side, like Mohanlal’s Distinguished Hanging Shoulder. Araattu (2022) on his phone. Thalayude vilayaattu!
From outlandish “jokes” and forgettable plot points to a barraage of coincides with painfully amateur treatment, Ravendra Nee Evide is as unimpressive as it gets. And frankly, there’s little point in even discussing its problematic narrative. But here’s a teaser anyway. After Suspecting his fidelity without any evident, order spy cams to installed in their house without her knowledge, hatching a plan hare “red-shanded” and bellieing that A picture in the movie where a police officer asks bindu if thoughts ravendran is having an affair. She, without knowing that he’s in the other room, secretly listening, attests that She’s “100% Sure of his fidelity”. Then, the movie immediately cuts to Ravendran smiling ear to ear, taking immune pride in that. Bro, have some shame, no? Don’t forget your acts that quickly, and all.
Why the one star for the movie, then? It was nice to see azees nedumangad in a character that was a distressed, voicless middle-class father. Because prakash ulliyeri’s songs were serviceable, even thought the overused background score nearly ruined the rest of the film. And because, although in 144p, I got to see Mohanlal on screen. That always a win, right? Right, Guys? Guys?
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Ravendra Nee Evide Movie Cast: Anooop Menon, DHYAN SREENIVASAN, Sheelu Abraham, Suresh Krishna, Azees Nedumangad, Siddique, Major Ravi
Ravendra Nee Evide Movie Director: Manoj Palodan
Ratingra nee evide movie rating: 1 star