Ravichandran's visuals are soulful be it the rustic farmer's life or the sleek New Zealand life. The script by Ratesh Varma, with Jayalal's story is very much realistic. But they are a welcome interlude in the narrative. The first half has a lot many instances which provide laughter. Though there is a lot of emotions running all over the place, and occasional overload of grief, the narration has been kept undramatic and simple. The highs and lows of Josutty's life is what the movie is all about. Josutty's immigration to New Zealand with Rose and his transformation from a farmer to an NRI is all depicted well. And because of some family problems he is forced to marry a divorcee named Rose who is a nurse. Josutty now has a lot of problems and burdens to contend with on a daily basis. A few incidents happen which forrces Jesse away from Josutty. He falls in love with his next door neighbor and childhood friend Jessie, played by Rachana Narayanankutty.
Josutty is a simple farmer who leads a contended life with his father Joseph and mother Shoshamma. 'Life of Josutty' traverses through myriad hues of human emotions. But Jeethu Joseph has beautifully made an ordinary life quite interesting. Taking such a life into focus and making a cinema on it may not be always entertaining. Ordinary lives can appear undramatic at the best of times. On the whole, with Life of Josutty, director Jeethu Joseph carries on his good form that he showed in Drishyam giving Dileep one of the best characters of his career. Hareesh Perady as Jossutty’s father gives a moving performance as the character who is idolised by his son. Jyothi Krishna as Rose, Jossutty’s wife impresses depicting a complicated character. Her appearance is to provide comic relief as she is pregnant every time she makes an entry. Rachana Narayanakutty as Jessy appears and disappears. But they depart once he is in New Zealand and Chembil Asokan takes their place along with Aqsa Bhatt (one of the three women in his life). In the beginning, he does give a feeling that it is one of his typical movies with actors like Noby and Saju Navodaya on his side.
Otherwise, Dileep’s performance is subdued and realistic. We even feel that there is an attempt to appease the Star’s fan clubs by inserting a line here and there in his voice to induce a few claps from them.
Jayalal Menon's story does try to hammer down the message that a lot of conflict in life can be avoided if we step into another person’s shoes. We not only see the ego battering condition of a house husband who has to survive in a foreign land, but also a layered man-woman relationship without being judgmental. But what the director gives us is a shocking surprise. The rest of the story was expected to be a humorous take on how an uneducated man takes on the role of a house husband in an alien land. On the other hand, Josutty readies himself to marry a divorced nurse who is working in New Zealand and promises to take his family out of financial trouble. So Jessy gets married to the man of her father's choice. As a child, he wished to be a priest but he falls for the charms of Jessy, his neighbour.Īs luck would have it, this relationship is doomed as Jessy's father will not accept an uneducated pauper son-in-law. He has a younger sister who is yet to be married and another sister’s dowry yet to be paid. Josutty (Dileep) is a typical Malayali hero who is naive and with a heart of gold. Starring Dileep, it is the coming-of-age story of a young man which is told with a sensitivity that we least expect from a Dileep film. Drishyam director Jeethu Joseph gives Dileep one of the best characters of his career, says Paresh C Palicha.ĭ rishyam director Jeethu Joseph's new venture Life Of Josutty carried very high expectations.