It is not so often that you come across a film that brings together a good script, dialogues, director and a perfect team of actors. For a comedy film to work, such an excellent combination is more than important.
And that's exactly what had happened with 'Yes Your Honor'.
Until now, Shrinivasan has had excellent onscreen chemistry with superstar Mohanlal. For the first time, he has tried his chemistry with Innocent and it has worked beautifully well.
Here's the story-
Innocent is Venugopal, a leading advocate. He is not exactly known for his adherence to truth and justice. His biggest client is a former minister John Vergese who is caught in a sex scandal. John Vergese's partner Mustafa too is a regular client of Venugopalan.
Fresh out of college, Ravishankar (played by Shrinivasan) joins his office as a new junior advocate. 12 years pass and he still only remains a Junior Advocate. If that was not bad enough, Venugopalan ill-treats him badly. In fact, Ravishankar's duties as a Junior Advocate are to look after his dogs and buy vegetables for his family from the market. Somewhere along this miserable existence, Ravishankar gets married to Maya, played by Padhmapriya.
Maya is all that Ravishankar is not- she is a women's rights activist and isn't happy with the fact that her husband is a junior to a man who defends the persons accused.
One day, Ravishankar gets badly humiliated by his senior. Not happy with merely administering insults, the senior goes one step ahead and beats him up too. Ravishankar decides to quit. Judge Mukundan takes pity on him and manages to get him appointed as the Public Prosecutor.
His very first case as Public Prosecutor has him pitted against his former senior, the very corrupt, evidence-fabricating Venugopalan. The case was about the mysterious death of DFO Sarah Shetty and Venugopalan begins to manufacture evidence to protect the former minister John Vergese.
Shrinivasan outwits the corrupt lawyer and brings to justice the culprits.
The film's biggest strength is its lead stars- Shrinivasan, Innocent and Padhmapriya. The rest of the cast too, including Thilagan as the good-hearted judge, Sai Kumar and Ramu as John Vergese and Mustafa, have done their jobs fabulously.
The first half of the film is paced perfectly with its comedy. The second half drags. What makes it more annoying is the very unnecessary song sequences.
Except for the lengthy fight sequence towards the climax, the film entertains you perfectly with its comic dig at the state's judiciary system. But, the story also convincingly says that justice does prevail, however weak the system is.
PV Gangadharan, the film's producer, has a big comedy winner in his hands.
The Good-
Performances of Shrinivasan, Innocent, Padhmapriya, Jagadhi and everybody
Script
Dialogues
VM Vinu's direction that brings out the best in the script
The Bad
The second half of the film slackens with unnecessary distractions like songs and fight sequence.
The Ugly
Nothing
- 06.12.2006
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