Gopi puts up with a lot nonsense created by his family members. As the older brother
he sacrifices a lot for the sake of the family including postponement of his
marriage. Actually he likes a local girl Sainaba (Padmapriya), a Hajiyar's
daughter. Dinesh was dead against his brother's affair with Sainaba mainly
because her brother Shafiq (Sudhi Joshi) is his rival at the college. As the
story goes, Gopi marries Sainaba and brings her home. The rest of the movie
deals with campus violence, dirty games played by political parties, murder and
destruction.
Veteran storyteller Sibi Malayil tries to make a movie out of the often told
common theme of "Elder children sacrificing everything for the
family". The story is so predictable that there no novelty in it. He has
made sure that the movie has all the usual "Masala" like romance,
campus politics and violence, political parties manipulating the students, inter
cast marriage and above all conflicts with in the family. Its time for a
creative director like Siby Malayil, to come out with movies with creative
themes. He should not make more and more of this "Old Masala" themes.
He should realize that people are fed up with movies seeing the same theme in
different forms. Songs by M. Jayachandran are good, especially the number 'Ishtam'.
Jayaram as usual presents an excellent performance. He practically saves the
film. Bhavana and Padmapriya are there just for name sake and their talents are
totally wasted. Music by Jayachandran are memorable and melodious. "Amritham"
literally means "Manna from Heaven or Heavenly food". This movie is
not any "Amritham". If you have some time to kill, go and see it
otherwise it isn't worth.
We rate this movie Average.
