Director Rajasenan, brings together Jayaram
and Urvashi, for his new family entertainer Madhuchandralekha.
The story revolves around Chandramathi (Urvashi),
a coarse, disheveled character. Chandramathi has a clutch of equally coarse brothers
(Bheeman Raghu, Harisri Asokan, Johnny) and grandma (Sukumari). She
is uneducated, dresses crudely and always chews betel leaves. She had
in fact fallen in love with her music teacher Madhavan alias Madhu (Jayaram).
One day Chandramathi kissed him in public and that incident forced him
to marry her. Madhu ends up as a playback singer after his marriage.
They
have four children - Kaadambari, twins Sivan & Parvathy and Kingini.
It can be described as an incompatible but happy marriage. Madhu loves
his wife, even though they are out-of-synch, because he believes that
it is she who brings him luck. Madhavan and the kids tolerate her, as she even
spits betel juice accidentally on others and is known in party circles
as “kolambi”.
But
things seem to go out of hand when Indulekha (Mamta), a sophisticated
girl urban model-cum-singer and an ardent lover of Madhu's music, enters
the scene. Lekha soon finds a place in the hearts of the family
members. Kids
started to avoid Chandramathi because they want a stylish mammy like
Lekha. Chandra is aware of their incompatibility in the changed scenario,
and attempts to improve, even trying her hand at learning English. At
last Chandramathi thinks Lekha will be the perfect wife for her husband
and a good mother for her children. For uniting Madhu and Lekha she
leaves home with her younger child Kingini. This incident totally
changes Madhu's life. How Madhu's friends go about uniting Madhu and Chandramathi
forms the rest of the story.
Jayaram, as the understanding husband who tolerates the strange ways
of his wife, has enacted his role well. His underplayed emotions give
the film a veneer of acceptability. He looks good in costumes designed
by his wife Aswathy Jayaram. But the film solely belongs to Urvashi.
If Madhuchandralekha manages to create ripples at the box-office, it
will be only because of her. Considering this is the story of a playback
singer, one would expect the songs to be of some importance. But the
songs, composed by M Jayachandran, are just used as fillers to fill
in narrative gaps. The others in the cast have just walk-in parts. Mamta
seems very modern in her costumes. Overall the movie is hilarious.