Hridayam (2022) User Reviews

All heart

[cinish · 8/10 · 22 January 2022]

Pranav Mohanlal is arriving as the young romantic heartthrob into malayalam cinema.

It is a Vineeth Srinivasan movie - young, campus based, music based. Quite in line with "Thattathin marayathe pennu". To draw a comparison, Pranav has a whole lot more flair to offer than Nivin.

Music has been well done, and is a continuous presence. Blending music into the situations has been pretty seamless.

Cinematography has been good. The interval shot with Pranav at a train door against red light is a keeper.

There is a lot of college nostalgia through out the movie. Some of the moments in the movie feel very genuine.

The movie did not end with a bang for me. Nothing substantial really came out. However, there is a lot of heart and youthful enthusiasm through the movie. Darshana and Pranav have performed very well, and Pranav is slowly firming his foot as the romantic star.

Movie for youngsters

[worldexplorerindia · 7/10 · 23 January 2022]

All movie running around love, college life, relationship, careers.

Best part: shooting location, good thoughts about how parents can stop the alcohol behaviour in adolescents and nicely portrayed characters

It's resembling the telugu movie " happy days" eventhough not exactly same but the comedy is very good.

Good for adolescents.

Celebration of Love!

[dennymathew29 · 8/10 · 23 January 2022]

You get 100% what you expect from somebody like Vineeth Sreenivasan! Positivity throughout, clever mix of music and feel good moments which will drive you through your past! It's cliche and unrealistic making, but will definitely make you love your life a bit more than you used to!

Good theatrical experience! And the score and songs are worth mentioning twice!

A slice of life musical masterpiece

[atomfreespirit · 10/10 · 22 January 2022]

A slice of life romantic musical that portrays an individual's life journey from the age of 18 to 35. Vineeth Sreenivasan proved himself again as an excellent storyteller. The music and background score is one of the main highlights of the whole movie. Definitely a theatre must watch.

A boat to your memories.

[adhi_here · 10/10 · 23 January 2022]

"Hridayam" is a boat of emotions which sail on the ocean of our "hridayam"(heart) where our old memories are locked up. This movies opens the locked gate of our nostalgic memories and sometimes make us go in full tears.

Movie says the story of a teenager names arun neelakantan who is going to a new college and from there to his most memorable moments. The important reason why this movie is so special is just because of the fact that, we can relate this movie to our own life. There are so much about this movie which keeps coming to my mind.

The question when coming to a movie review is can you watch this movie to be enjoyed?

Well, yes of course, you can watch this movie and you are actually taking a journey through the life of arun neelakantan.

Pranav mohanlal has done a fantastic job and director vineeth sreenivasan knows how to make a movie. Really loved this one.

Best love and life flim

[thamayanthisasi · 10/10 · 23 January 2022]

I am tamil i even don't know malayalam in theater i didnot got tickets for 83 so i went for Hridayam now i am a die hard fan of Hridayam,Songs are pure bless extrodinary love songs #Dharshana i loved it so much.

Excellent

[kichujdass · 9/10 · 21 January 2022]

The powerful comeback of pranav.movie are too good great actors realistic story.this movie is an emotional feel good drama and direction and DOP is great. Songs are life of this movie worthy watchable.

Overrated for sure .!

[Couziambatman · 6/10 · 18 February 2022]

Movie isnt bad in any sense , well written, well made and music is well executed. But it's overrated to be honest movie is just an average movie in which i found some of things too cliché. Acting isnt something which can be deemed as the best. Pranav is considerably better from his earlier works. Its a good one time watch but isn't upto Vineeth's other movies .

Loved it...

[ratheesanabhijith · 9/10 · 24 January 2022]

"Hridayam" A great piece of work by Vineeth Srinivasan! You can experience 3hrs of magical journey through the life of Arun from an innocent college going boy to the cutest family man on this earth. Human emotions are well potrayed in this movie. Felt many scenes are relatable. Awesome musics by Hesham, made this movie experience, memorable. Even though there has been lot of movies in same story line definitely this feels fresh and never get bored at any single point.

Kudos to entire team❤

No Idea what the hype is all about.

[geethugeorge · 6/10 · 21 February 2022]

It's such a long movie and you feel like why is it being dragged so much. Too many songs stuffed into it. Songs are pretty good but there was no need for so many.

To be honest I did'nt get what the hype was all about. The same college days and meet up after many years. Nothing new and nothing special. It really irritates me when they show the love at first sight scenes and the girls hair is so perfect and its flying in the air. There's nothing real about it.

One point to highlight is that Pranav Mohanlal has improved as an actor as I didn't feel irked seeing him act as he was in irupathionnam nootandu.

The only good element that I loved about the movie is Johnny Antony.

Overall, its a watchable ordinary movie showing college life and the life after that.

Like a river

[SAJINCHANDRAN · 10/10 · 22 January 2022]

Apart from the end of first half everything else in the movie is good. The soule of the movie is music and the music director done it perfectly. Screenplay deviate slightly towards the end of first half. Pranav darshana and kalyani priyadarshan are perfect like beau idéal. A must watch souleful movie.

Premam minus the charisma and intrigue

[alphadude007 · 6/10 · 18 February 2022]

A decent coming of age movie that was stretched like a rubber band. Really do not understand the high rating at all. Massive let down by Vineeth Sreenivasan.

Terrible. Please read this before you pay for this.

[galaxyjustinskywalker · 2/10 · 26 January 2022]

This review will save your time and money. Specifically, 2 hours and 55 minutes.

Plain and simple, the movie is trash. With all due respect to Vineeth Sreenivasan, please do not turn into a Mollywood Karan Johar. We don't need another of that.

I would give it a 0/10. But there are 2 exact things I liked in the movie. The music, and the cinematography. The editing and shots taken are very good. Nothing groundbreaking though.

Coming to those who say it brought back their engineering days. Brothers and sisters, I am an engineering graduate from a National engineering college, this is NOT how it is. Ragging isn't like this. Love doesn't work this way. Toxic relationships will do nothing but mess up your life. Friendships are never this platonic.

The movie uses a countless number of cliches. A differently abled college peon, a warden everyone hates, evil seniors, innocent juniors, a breakup phase which is about 7% accurate, and the normal "the MC goes for a journey by himself for self discovery and all of a sudden he's a purely innocent and good hearted snowflake with a sudden entrepreneurial spirit. Sure.

Humour. Zero. If any of the terrible ass jokes in this movie made you laugh, you have a very very low threshold of humour.

Romance. The cliche. Ex-girlfriend is reminded of her INSANELY TOXIC RELATIONSHIP seeing him getting married, and feels emotionally broken. I hate movies like these spreading a false image of love or marriage throughout young minds. Might I also add that every girl who is supposed to be percieved as "beautiful" is fair and every mediocre girl, especially one from the poor neighborhood, is dark? Okay?

Pranav Mohanlal. Brother, I don't know if your father forced you into this. If he did, get out of this. Immediately. Take your own advice from this film and find your passion. Because acting isn't one of them. Every dialogue you delivered felt like someone was holding up the script for you. Couldn't even make up to 0.06% of the acting your father did at your age. Please. Stop.

Overall, do not watch this movie. I was counting the minutes till it ended. I was drinking water to pass the time. The only thing I enjoyed was the drive to the theatre and back home. Enikk thettupatti, ningalkk pattaruth. Paisa yo samayamo kalayaruth.

Hridayam - straight from the Heart

[storm_breaker · 10/10 · 25 January 2022]

Congratulations to Vineeth Sreenivasan and Team for creating this masterpiece. It's hard to get a satisfying movie experience nowadays especially when it comes with high hopes. Hridayam has done that smoothly and delivers even more.

Hridayam is a drama following the life of Arun Neelakandan (nice shoutout to the iconic Mohanlal character) from his college days til becoming a family man. His relationship with collegemate Darshana and his friends and how the campus affects his life forms the crux of the first half. His journey as a matured adult is presented in the later half. Pranav has done an amazing job as the protagonist. Many shots reminded me of a young Mohanlal. All the actors - Darshana, Kalyani, Aju and the fresh faces who acted as Arun's classmates deserve praise for their performance.

The movie is relatively lengthy. But the writer-director shows his mastery by presenting it without boring the viewers for a single second. The movie can be considered a musical- with songs filled throughout (I think around 15 songs) but all fit well with situation.

I highly recommend this movie and I guarantee that Hridayam will give you a wholesome feeling. Many scenes will definitely stay in your heart for days after leaving the theatre - some that will make you smile and some that bring tears.

Wonderfully handcrafted movie

[teamrmdesigns · 10/10 · 22 January 2022]

The movie is just soulful to watch and a beautifully handcrafted movie . The songs , dialogue , cinematography, cast everything is really done . Its really in the heart ❤ HRIDAYAM.

Nostalgic

[sumanth-05484 · 8/10 · 27 February 2022]

Feel Good Movie .

Nostalgic Journey From College Life To Adult Life .

Amazing Character.

Movie is Dragged in many Parts Especially In The First Half .

If they Could have Chopped it then it could have been in the List of All Time Best Feel Good Movies .

Could have been edited Some Unnecessary Scenes and Could Have Added some More Interesting Scene .

Lovly movie..

[jilsontprj · 10/10 · 22 January 2022]

This was the best movie ever I watched in the theatre..:-) Super songs and bgms... It will be the best romantic movie in Malayalam.. I really loved with this HRIDAYAM...

All heart, no soul.

[deepthipaul · 6/10 · 18 February 2022]

Not a bad movie, not a great movie, and definitely not a movie worth an 8+ rating! Hridayam had nothing fresh to offer story-wise or technically. There were only two scenes in the entire movie where one feels for the characters. The performances were average, probably because none of the characters were developed enough. The songs are decent, but too many in number..it's almost as if they've used music to cover up for the lack of good scenes and dialogues.

All in all, I'm just shocked that malayalees loved this very mundane and lengthy movie. Overrated for sure.

Awesome must watch!!

[nishantcn · 10/10 · 23 January 2022]

Awesome, realistic movie touches heart, and it stays there for sometime. There are many instances where the movie makes an easy connect with each one of us, backed by great BGM actors did justice to their roles.

One time watch

[jubssss112 · 6/10 · 29 January 2022]

IMDB needs to fix their rating system. The movie is good but not a 9/10 material. At the best, 7/10. I guess there is a big lobby of unemployed Indian youth voting to bump up the ratings. Good music.

Awesome..

[vipinushus · 10/10 · 22 January 2022]

Perfectly created movie. It is too good in casting and dialogues. Vineeth sreenivasan has done quite great job as always. Those who completed or still studying outside kerala can particularly catch the vibe.

An Upbeat Campus Movie On Personal Growth..

[PenFriendWentToMovies · 7/10 · 24 January 2022]

Hridayam was not a romantic movie as I thought it would be. For me it was more of a coming of age drama. It was a feel good movie, and Vineeth Srinivasan delivered as usual. Even though Pranav had improved as an actor, I believe there were times when he couldn't do justice to his character and it's development. Because of that certain moments failed to reach out to the audience, as it were supposed to. Darshana and Kalyani were positive attributes of the movie. I loved watching Kalyani on this. The movie is worth a watch and few good songs, funny and nostalgic moments makes it so.

Such a LONNGG movie

[adarsh-90211 · 1/10 · 4 April 2022]

Had to watch it for the hype. But couldn't sit through the movie. It just doesn't end. Good songs but nothing more than that. Very illogical and misogynistic comments throughout the movie. Could have been much better.

Magic of Appu and Vineeth

[nahmahakeem · 10/10 · 23 January 2022]

This success is actually a teamwork. Kudos to Appu who gave excellent acting and tremendous improvement in his performance..Also Darshana and Kalyani was good. Handsome Appu and beautiful Kalyani have a beautiful chemistry between them. Appu became the heartthrob of young girls.. Good work..Keep going guys ... Expecting more such films. Obviously this film will bring the career graph of Appu and Vineeth to next level... Have a great success ahead..

Director Movie

[anandhus-99160 · 8/10 · 23 January 2022]

Hridayam is quite well movie, As mentioned director only let us to feel what he wanted audience to be felt.

Plot lies around the life span of 18 to early 30's of a man so pranav character is quite relatable or most of the character is relatable to common mallu boys.

Hridayam is not built in a solid story but it's screenplay deserves an applaudes but at few points the same desreved critics too.

Editing takes a promienent role in flowfull narration.

Considering actors part everyone does their job right , darshana rajendhran way ahead of rest, she is very expressive actor in todays gen.

Pranav Mohanlal's acting quality cannot be measured with this movie, as the director claimed he doesnt forced character into pranav later he used pranav as character.

Pranav's screen presence , mannerism, charisma in the big screen in irreplacable. But unfortuantely we can't fully analise his acting capacity with this movie

Music and bgm needed to be emphasised, both are the backbone of this movie. Hesham magic is classic. Recommend theatre watch for both bgm and music

Over all Hridayam is well written and conceived movie but it lacks the audience connection to the story, which is always available in vineeth sreenivasan movies but not in this.

Its seems like watching arun's life instead of feeling arun's life. Arun is relatable but not felt.

If they could have managed that flaw Hridayam would have been a stunning theatre experience.

But still its good movie and not so typical feel good stuff.