Debutant director Deepan's Puthiya Mugham (also spelt Puthiya Mukham), starring Prithviraj, Priyamani, Bala and Meera Nandan in the lead roles, is a high voltage campus flick, which has lots of similarities with the plot of Vikram's super hit action flick Anniyan. With a definite influence from Anniyan, the film revolves around Krishnakumar (Prithviraj), who changes in nature from a soft spoken Brahmin boy to a daredevil hero!
Krishnakumar alias Kichan (Prithviraj), the son of pious Brahmin parents (Nedumudi Venu and Shobha Mohan), lives in a modest agraharam in Kalpathi, where he teaches mridungam to kids and romances Sreedevi (Meera Nandan), daughter of his father's close friend (played by Kalasala Babu). Their relationship has the blessings and approval of their elders and friends.
He soon joins an engineering college in Kochi. On the first day itself, he wins over the hearts of his classmates with his talk and his playing percussion with the desk. And then, on Freshers' Talent Search Day, he dazzles everyone with an extraordinary performance using all kinds of percussion instruments. The one who is most impressed with him and his performance is Anjana (Priyamani), his classmate, and they become very good friends.
Sudhi (Bala), who is very close to Anjana's family and a senior student in the college, wishes to marry her. Sudhi and his brothers Mahi (Saikumar) and Giri (Shammi Thilakan) are goons who have been unleashing a reign of terror in the city. Sudhi misunderstands Anjana's admiration for Kichu as love and thrashes poor Kichan severely and heartlessly, leaving him a wreck. After some time, we come across an all new Kichan, who fears none and geared up to thrash any number of thugs at one go.
The film is completely focused on Prithviraj and in all fairness; he is just rocking in the two avatars, the first one with a clean-shaven look and the other, where he is a toughie. Bala renders full support as Sudhi, while Priyamani is good as Anjana. Meera Nandan looks convincing as Sreedevi. The others in the cast also suit their respective roles and act well.
The other highlights of the film are visuals by Bharani K. Dharan and music by Deepak Dev. The action sequences are much better than what is usually seen in Malayalam films and the songs, especially the title song (sung by Prithviraj himself) are impressive. Puthiya Mugham is all about action and style. No doubt, Puthiya Mugham is just for youth and presents the changing face of Malayalam Cinema.
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