Mahesh(Fahad faasil) is a photographer in kattappana living with his aging father. He has a love interest soumya(Anusree). Mahesh's simple life takes a turn when he is publicly beaten up by a guy jimson(sujith shankar) leaving mahesh in embarrassment and his self respect getting hurt. Later, soumya ditches him when she gets a proposal from a canadian nurse. Mahesh swears revenge to beat up jimson publicly the same way he was beaten and without achieving that he would be barefooted. But jimson leaves to gulf, making mahesh's wait for revenge extended. By that time, mahesh trains for martial arts and falls in love with a girl jimsy(aparna balamurali) without knowing that she is jimson's sister. Will mahesh take his revenge despite jimson being his future brother in law? To know that watch maheshinte prathikaram.
When this movie was announced, I wondered it would be an intense revenge film like badlapur because of the title. But to my surprise, its a light hearted film with loads of humor. Story is very simple but the treatment is fresh and realistic. Dileesh pothan makes his directorial debut with a bang. With his first film itself he turns into one of the best filmmakers of malayalam. The sequences he built which leads to the conflict point itself shows his brilliance. Bijibal's songs are another highlight with idukki song being the best. Shyju khalid's cinematography is a delight to your eyes.
Coming to the performances everyone has given their best, where most of the characters having a cult following like mahesh, artist baby, crispin, soumya, vincent bhavana, jimsy, jimson, eldho etc.
Only issue I had is how jimson didn't know about mahesh's revenge after returning from gulf since mahesh publicly sweared revenge. But that's just my doubt and not a big deal.
Before maheshinte prathikaram released, fahad had a bit bad time at the box office. But after the release of maheshinte prathikaram, fahad didn't need to turn back and became every malayalees favorite.
Review of Maheshinte Prathikaaram
