Jacobinte Swargarajyam

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Jacobinte Swargarajyam is all about the depressing times that a once happy family of a father, mother and four children finds itself after the man loses all his wealth. His trust is broken and the father, Jacob, essayed with riveting subtlety by Renji Panicker, is shattered, and in desperation, flies to Libya hoping to make some quick money so that he can repays his heartless debtors. One of them Murali Menon (Ashwin Kumar) is vindictive and vicious, threatens the mother and the eldest son, Jerry (Nivin Pauly), with imprisonment and makes sure that Jacob does not return home.

With rare grit and determination, Jerry and his mother (Lakshmi Ramakrishnan) face the storm and rebuild their business from scratch, branching from Jacob’s steel enterprise into event management and tourism. The movie stays pretty much focussed -- and does not stray into any romantic alleyways (though Jerry has a girlfriend) -- except to include a few squabbles which one of Jerry’s brothers gets into. These add a certain balance to the film’s structure, and with performances by most of the cast members -- particularly Pauly, Panicker and Ramakrishnan -- disarmingly understated, Sreenivasan’s work is captivating.