Male actors doing female characters is not a new theme. We have seen Charlie Chaplin, Adam Sandler, Robin Williams John Travolta and Kamala Hassan in India doing characters of that sort. But Dileep’s Maya Mohini was slightly different. If you look at many of the actors I mentioned above and remember their characters they were all clothed in so much fabric and played an over weight character where it is quite easy to hide the masculinity.

But in Mayamohini Dileep dresses up as an indian lady in a revealing sari attire which is much tough to convincingly portray. Though the fact that the story has him as a male who dresses up as a lady for a reason (much like Mrs. doubtfire) makes it easier to act convincingly. Also the act different from Travolta and Sandler roles (I was anticipating this also to be a true female character and not a mocked up one). Nevertheless it went good.

There is no much suspense in the movie as way ahead in the film you will know for sure about the identity of dileep. But the interesting part is that even though you know that the suspense does not exist anymore you still get glued to the movie as Baburaj and Biju Menon have done a marvelous job playing the support roles. We start viewing the movie for a great part through their eyes. The movie has a flow that hilariously takes the viewer forward.

If you are not particular that every movie should carry a message or make a relevant contribution to a perfect society of your concepts then you are good. The movie definitely puts the entire crowd in theatre to laugh well for a long 2+ hours which in my opinion is a big public service in a stressful life style that many go through and in that respect my opinion is that we should have more movies that can make people laugh.

When I wrote a review on the movie “Ordinary” I had mentioned that Baburaj gets some great small roles that he does so well. Here he gets a full length role that he has done well. We had always put him next to people like Bheeman Raghu and Santosh often coming as Gundas or corrupt police officers. But he has broken that mould of typo characters and we will see more of him in the coming years.

It was nice to see Mohan after a long while and though I never thought he was a good actor he did an acceptable role in here. It is not a must see, but a good see and as they say Paisa Vasool