Thattathin Marayathu
Tags: romantic

Plot synopsis:
The story starts with a flashback in which two school boys, Vinod Nair and his friend, are at the Thalassery pier. Vinod sees a Muslim girl who he finds attractive and he prays to God to make her his wife in the future.
After the roll of starting credits, the movie shifts focus to the present, in which Vinod, hailing a middle class Hindu Nair family, is jailed for trespassing the property of a rich Muslim politician, Abdul Khader. Realizing that he went there to meet the Muslim girl, Aisha, the politician's niece with whom he's madly in love, Sub-inspector Prem Kumar and his men request him to tell his love story.
From here, the movie goes back in time by a few months, when Vinod first saw Aisha while attending his friend's marriage. He accidentally collides with her while running along a corridor and she falls down a staircase, ending up unconscious in a hospital. Vinod goes to the hospital and finds a little girl besides Aisha's bed. With her help, he leaves a 'sorry' letter to Aisha, written using a stencil. But just watching her beautiful face sleep in peace is enough to fuel the love within Vinod and along with his close friends Abdu and Mustafa, Vinod tries to win Aisha's heart.
To get a chance to talk to Aisha, Vinod next tries to participate in a Daffmuttu competition in Kannur University Cultural Festival in which Aisha also is participating. He goes to a trainer Najaf. But Vinod and Najaf have a history of bitterness when during his 12th grade, the duo had a tiff. The storyline goes into further flashback mode, to a few years prior.
Vinod along with his friends back then, Nijad and Majid had a gang, named Smartboyz. Majid was in love with Fatima, the daughter of the local shrimp merchant. But Fatima was in love with Najaf. Thus the trio decide to take on Najaf and beat him by covering faces. After beating Najaf, in an act of heroism Majid accidentally threw away his driving license along with some money. The driving license gives his credentials away, and the next day all three are beaten up by Najaf's friends.
Despite this history, Najaf who is now married to his new lover Khadeeja, accepts to teach him Daffmuttu. During the cultural festival, Vinod meets Aisha and wishes her a happy birthday. He is won over by her radiance and cannot keep the feelings hidden inside him anymore. After the festival is over, Vinod goes to Aisha's house late at night and confesses his feelings. There is no reply from Aisha, but after a few days Aisha reciprocates his feelings by writing a letter. Then one night, when he believes that no one is at her home, he tries to meet her. Only to be caught and sent to police custody. With this Vinod winds up his story.
Listening to this with full attention, S.I Premkumar lends his full support to Vinod and promises to help him unite with Aisha. Vinod tries to find a way of reaching out to Aisha by exchanging letters with her. He finds Hamza, Aisha's tutor, a friend of Abdu. Hamza is in love with Vinod's sister and he agrees to help Vinod. To make money Vinod opens a Purdah shop with the help of Sub-inspector Premkumar and asks Aisha to inaugurate the shop. She agrees to come on Friday afternoon, when she's alone in her house. Aisha inaugurates the shop and meets Vinod's parents. While returning, they are blocked by some men who are enraged to Aisha in the car with two men. After reaching home, Aisha is put into house-arrest by her father's elder brother, Abdul Khader. An accident happens in Khader's factory, which leads to a communal riot leading to which Aisha's father Abdul Rahman gets attacked. While in hospital, Khader informs his brother that they are shifting to Trivandrum the next day to prevet any untoward incidents further. Abdul Rahman agrees and Aisha sees Vinod one last time in the night. The next day, Abdul Rahman realises that he should allow Aisha to live with the one she loves. Khader departs and Aisha calls Vinod, but finds that Vinod's phone is switched off and he is nowhere to be seen.
Finally with the help of SI Premkumar, they find him in sitting by the sea bridge and Aisha proposes him to marry her. Vinod asks to kiss her which she agrees. The scene shifts back to the first scene at the same sea-bridge where Vinod prays to God to get that beautiful girl he saw and as he leaves, a woman calls out to the little girl as 'Aisha'.
The film ends on the note that "God is quite a person; even if we forget some of our wishes, he never does."

Review: A youthful love story that crosses communal boundaries....
8.5/10 At heart, director Vineet Sreenivasan is a musician first and like his soft songs, every scene and line in the movie is rendered with a youthful symphony pleasing to the soul.
Perhaps even more praiseworthy is the way he has brought out the best in everyone including the child artists.Protagonist Nivin Pauly has delivered a good performance and his compatriots in the movie fit well into their characters.
Isha Talwar is beautiful and has the makings of a future Katrina Kaif...
And that means exactly what u think it does :) She has few scenes where any acting is warranted and even fewer lines, perhaps because her lip movements are out of sync with the Malayalam lines, to do justice -a language that is foreign to her.The music is wonderful, but you probably already new that.
The story delivers its message subtly without compromising on entertainment.Its been a while since I have seen a good portrayal of young love in Malayalam cinema...
clichéd yet refreshing love story!.
Thattathin Mareyath is a simple yet engaging movie with a plot so clichéd yet so refreshing.
Now thats the magic of a writter cum director, here we have Vineeth Sreenivasan who makes a giant leap from "Malarvadi".Breaking all my presumptions, Nivin pauly does it in style as the bloody blushing lover boy and as for the lady love, her looks were more than enough.
The co-cast all supportive and hilarious, we get some good laughs when they all fit in.
How i loved the romantic scenes, the surreal textures, the background scores which all reminded me of my lovelife!
A good watch.
Ideally, one should have no perception of the movie before starting off watching it.
But I held one - this movie is made by a very young director Vineeth Sreenivasan and hence the movie would reflect inexperience.
It was better than the anticipation.The best part of the movie was Ayesha and her beauty.
Nivin pauly has acted well and has captured the head-over-heels-in-love endearingly.The movie is sprinkled with songs all along and that adds to the general feel-good of the movie.In fact, movie is all feel-goods and not much of a story.There were some good humor scenes too.
Abdu as Vinod's friend has done a good job.
The audience shared good laughs through out the movie.However, I am not sure how to explain such huge success that the movie has claimed.
It is a soother and a nice one - good job Vineeth..
Another Typical Love Story!
So, I was overwhelmed by the response of this movie and decided to watch it.
I usually don't watch Romantic movies and this one reminded me why.Well, the plot is typical.
You add an inter-caste factor and publish the story in a 21st century where the girl and boy both don't own a mobile phone.
This type of movie can only gain success to people who have not watched epics from Hollywood & Bollywood.
Or French cinema, for that matter!Vineet Srinivasan is very clever at grabbing the attention of cinema- goers who are bored by the usual remakes and boring slapstick.Bottom line, this movie does not have much to offer with sporadic jokes and lack of panache!I rate it 5 for the comedy part and Nivin Pauly's performance.
I went for this movie watching the superb ads, songs and high rating in IMDb. No doubt the songs are good, the beautiful actress is just as the hero explains in trailer!!
Shymala etc) movies are good.
But Vineeth's inexperience in direction is quite evident.If you have seen the ads and the songs, then you have seen the entire movie.
An example where a movie can gather crowds just with good songs and stunning actress (Isha Talwar).There is nothing in this movie other than a straight forward love story which ends in marriage.
Story, direction, sets are all plain simple.
Jayan's artificial Trivandrum accent is just awful, (he shouldn't have attempted Venjaramoodu)..:( Not sure why people gave high rating for this movie in IMDb(likely the producer itself..:).
Simple and Adorable movie.......
Vineeth Sreenivasan has once again came up with a beautiful cinematic experience.
It's a simple movie without any unconventional plots or twists, no any high profile song sequences, null amount of high dose action scenes.
It tells the story of Vinod(Nivin Pauly) a simple guy from Telicherry town who adores a Muslim girl Aisha(Isha Talwar)of a wealthy family.
The crux of the movie lies in the efforts made by Vinod & his friends to approach Aisha and thereafter make her fall for her.
Vineeth has once again impressed with a well written script and equally good direction, which was well supported by DOP Jomon and all other crew members.
Nivin has been impressive in his role and the new face Isha has caught every eyes with her stunning beauty.
On the whole a good movie, which you would like to see again and again.
Good Love Story.
TATTATTHIN MARAYATHU REVIEW At last Malayali's have learned to 'tolerate' a love story.Vineeth promised just a nice feel after leaving the theater.Yes he has given that feel.This film doesn't comes under epic romance movies like 'Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal', 'Sallapam','Azhakiya Ravanan' or even 'Niram'.Still it gives us that feel.
SCRIPT:Story is a predictable ,simple love story.,yet we will feel some suspenses.Dialogues are well written.The author communicated his views through some striking dialogs.,like.Love is always Painkili.,Vineeth tried hard to keep up the standard.,as we all know Malayalam is a bad language for love.Talassery slang is heard first time in ,alayalam films,Its happy to hear something Malabari.The biggest gift of Vineeth is his sense of humor.He sees humor in a different way.Entry of Kurudi really rocked.Script has some flaws,some unwanted scenes like the one in hospital and party office.
DIRECTION:Vineeth has improved very much.He has become a class director now.Some scenes are out of the world.Waiting for Aisha near Che Guevara poster is the best scene.,i will say.
ACTING:Outstanding acting by Nivin Pauly.Mollywood has got a new talent.'Marich Abhinayikkika Ennoke Kettitte Ullu'.80% of the film is his scenes,It would have been a disaster if doomed it.Isha didn't had anything to do., But she stunned us with her ravishing beauty.Aju,Bagath,and Santhosh did well.
TECHNICAL:I got the front raw seat.Couldn't able to visualize the movie.I think camera was good.However Joemon captured Isha Talwar's beauty.
SONGS AND BGM:Vineeth should use a good music director for songs and stop writing songs himself.All sons except Muthichippi bored me.BGM was cool.
Its not a must watch movie.,but If u wanna feel the love for 2 hours.,It will be a nice experience RATING:7.5/10.
Simple, cute inter-religion love story; but nothing special.
Hindu youth Vinod has a chance encounter with Aisha, niece of a powerful Muslim political leader, Abdul Khader, and falls in love.
The movie starts mid-story, with the hero being jailed for trespassing into Abdul Khader's property to see Aisha.
The story unfolds as narrated by Vinod to the Sub Inspector.
The soul of the movie is how Vinod explores his feelings for Aisha, and tries to see how she would fit into his life.
The style of narration is the revised, youth-centered, casual form that is becoming increasingly popular in Malayalam movies; it's the shifting of gear to a new era.However, as far as the plot goes, it is simple, cute, and pleasant, but not novel.
There is absolutely nothing new in the story.
I have been getting rave reviews about the movie, and went in expecting something fresh.
The script was good with the first half aimed at comedy and the second half having a mix of both humor and emotion.
Though the script was medium and normal, the way the movie has been executed is worth saying.
Nivin Pauly was the highlight of this film.
Aju Varghese excels in his role as Nivin's first mate and has hit a funny bone in the movie whenever needed.
Each and every cast member like Sreenivasan, Kurudi had their own roles executed perfectly.
Though, Isha Talwar had no role compared to the others, her beauty and her presence has given it a sparkling touch.
Great work by Shaan Rahman and Vineeth on the music of this film.
Every song excels in its timing and the background music is worth saying.
The film stands upon its description as a musical romance and the script, cast and crew have just given a very supportive hand in it.
2 hours of ultimate fun, emotion and music, that's what i can guarantee in this film.
'Thattathin Marayath' is Romantic, Youthful and musical....
'Thattathin Marayath' is Romantic, Youthful and musical...We might had n number of romantic movies of boy and girl from different religion loving each other.
Script and direction of the movie will give you a pleasant, youthful, romantic and musical experience.
Movie has hero, but all the character is well blended.
Good BGM music.
Esp those which means 'Ayisha as a girl will come with you, but not ayisha as a Muslim' & 'Black clothes should cover women pureness not her dreams' Recommended for those who are young at heart..
Romance at it's best ....you'll watch it with a smile on your face throughout!.
I am a Malayalee but I very rarely watch Malayalam movies as I tend to find them too serious and depressing most of the time.I went to see this movie in the cinema when it released and I just loved it.
I found myself watching the story unfold on screen with a smile on my face throughout.
The acting, the music and the background score were all excellent.Don't get me wrong, this movie is not a "Oru Vadakkan Veerakatha " or a "Bharatham" but just like those movies and for better or for worse Thattathin Marayathu is surely a sign of things to come with a fresh youthful take on some of the usual story lines that repeatedly form the plots of most South Indian movies A light, frothy romantic film with new young actors that really hits the spot.I rewatched this movie last night more than 2 years after its cinematic release and I still enjoyed it.
You have the usual hindu boy meets Muslim girl story that you have seen a 100 times before but Nivin Pauly in the lead role pulls you in and you begin to root for him instantly.
A lot of heroes in Indian movies resort to blatant stalking to get their girl and for some reason we tend to accept this behaviour as normal but its not.
Nivin Pauly's easy likability and earnest smile is one of the key factors in how well audiences reacted to this movie and it is no surprise that 3 years later Nivin Pauly is one of the most bankable stars in Malayalam Cinema.
I feel Thattathin Marayathu was absolutely vital in securing him this status.Isha Talwar has little to do other than look pretty and ethereal on screen and she does it with aplomb.
She too comes across as likable and the sort of person you could easily fall in love with from afar.
The supporting case of Manoj K Jayan, Aju Varghese and others do a good job as well.As a Malayalee with extremely poor language skills, even I loved the songs in this movie and found myself humming them for days after watching the movie.In addition to Nivin Pauly, Vineeth Sreenivasan, a 2nd Generation member of the Malayalam film industry, deserves the major credit for the success of the movie as he wrote, directed and even sang a couple of the superhit songs.
I became a fan of Nivin Pauly after seeing this move and really enjoy watching his movies that released after this!.
I can't imagine how can one write such a lame story and most surprisingly how people like it.
Poor attempt from Vineeth who took far too much freedom in writing/making this story/movie.Navin's performance was below par, Isha's even worse.To summarize in one line " Routine, boring and unconvincing"PS: My friend (santosh) who likes a Muslim girl (Sameera-95% relevance) suggested me to watch this movie.
But the fact that it elucidates the innocence concealed in an intercast love story and crafts it with a simple storyline depicting the nuances of conventional characters is purely magical.
The movie gently floats from a light hearted youthfulness to unperturbed romantic shores with ease and panache.
Nevertheless, the absence of a terrific storyline is often understated as it glides through the luminous performance by the entire cast, tactical and exuberant narration, Brilliant cinematography reinforced with some soul stirring scores by Shaan.
Full credits to Vineeth for presenting viewers with a narrative that is not just refreshing but brimming with life.
A Well-Executed love story 9/10.
Complete with a well written script,good performances and great music and humour this one is a must watch!!
The story is nothing new about a Hindu boy falling in love with a Muslim girl.But what keeps you in hold is the way in which it has been presented with all the right elements in perfect proportion.
Special mention required for Aju Varghese for a stand-out performance as the hero's best buddy.
Such a beautiful, simple romantic film.
The film deviates from the regular love stories at the beginning when Vinod narrates his story.
While boring films show the actor and actress meeting, this shows what actually happens in reality.
The film was absolutely brilliant because it didn't show the hot college basketball player finding a girl, but showed a shy, normal guy like Vinod who anyone can relate to.
Fantastic romantic songs.
If you have a small spark of love in you, this film is bound to make it into a raging fire.
Love Story.
This is a cute and very interesting love story between a Hindu boy (Vinod) and a Muslim girl (Ayesha).The film starts with a flashback,inside a Police Station Vinod explains his love story to the Inspector who is very curious about love matters and marriages.He promises Vinod,if his love is true,then he'll give all the help to make them one.Vinod tells his story to the officers.Then the romantic love story begins..As usual stuffs,the crew behind the film doesn't try to explain about Hindu- Muslim conflicts.
The film makes us curious about the story.The film doesn't deals with any boring contents.The film expresses all the feelings that a boy/girl have.This romantic movie is written and directed by Vineeth Sreenivasan who is a leading playback singer,actor in Malyalam Film Industry(Mollywood,India).He's son of a leading actor and scriptwriter Sreenivasan..
A Perfect Romantic Movie.
Although The theme or story of the movie is simple it is right to say it has excelled in its simplicity..Vineeth has managed to give us a nice romantic piece without much of a fuss and the script was superb.It did have the essential comedy .Honestly I thought without much action sequence and stunts the movie would be boring but that was not to be..IT has managed to get the user busy for the full movie..The movie also excels in the beautiful songs which is apt for the movie..Jomon T.
John Has yet again showed his talent with another superbly shot movie..MUST WATCH.....
its the time of new generation films with new directors with fresh faces.
positive points 1-awesome direction,vineeth sreenevasan has all credit 2-nivin Pauly acts as a experienced one,perfect man for the character 3-the beauty of isha talwar makes the film beautiful 4-the outstanding music of shaan rahmannegative points 1-predictable story lineas a whole it is a excellent movie and a great rebirth to romantic films in Malayalam industry.vineeth srinivasan and nivin Pauly will have a great future and it is the best blockbusterit is sure that this film will be the biggest blockbuster of the year.it will create wave among the youth generation.nivin pauly will have a huge fans following after this movie.
"Thattathin Marayathu" directed by Vineet Srinivasan has a very simple storyline but bowl the viewers over by its simplicity, heart & emotions.
It once again proves that simplicity is the best even when it comes to movies.Movie traces the love life of the protagonist who falls in love with a girl of different faith & class.
Though the storyline has all the clichés of the love stories of the yore, it is the treatment by Vineet that makes it work big time.
The freshness of the narrative supported by intelligent yet funny & sometimes hard-hitting dialogs and fine performance by the actors concerned has ensured that "Thattathin Marayathu" is easily one of the finest movies of the year.The screenplay moves at a brisk pace interlaced with adequate doses of romance , humor , politics & sentiments.
Brilliantly written one-liners laced with humor , politics & the current happenings without any restrain makes one say kudos to the writer.
Hence the mushy & tacky romantic dialogs can be excused.Though it is a oft-repeated story Vineet has not tried to be politically correct with respect to issues concerning religions.
The dialogs in the end mouthed by Srinivasan are brilliantly said without being preachy.Coming onto the acting part , Nivin Pauly has done a stupendous job as the protagonist Vinod.
Though Srinivasan comes in a very brief role , he makes a lasting impact in the end.
Rest of the cast have done their jobs adequately.Shaan Rahman , the music director of the movie is another star.
The background score blends well with the narrative & rings in the ears even long after the movie is over.
Songs are definite pillars of strength for this movie.Technically also the movie is brilliant.
His camera has shot the natural beauty of Thallasery & Kannur is a splendid manner.Only negative point that one can think of is that movie is almost like a fairytale with everything falling in place without much struggle.
One does get jealous of the ridiculous ease with which the protagonist achieves everything in this movie.On the whole, "Thattathin Marayathu" is a beautiful love story that will sure make you smile at the end.Bottomline: Beautiful