Sound Thoma


Sound Thoma is a 2013 Malayalam comedy film directed by Vyshakh. It features Dileep playing a character with a cleft lip and defective voice while Saikumar, Mukesh, and Namitha Pramod portray supporting roles. The film, produced by Anoop, features background score and soundtrack composed by Gopi Sundar and the lyrics were written by Rajeev Alunkal and Nadirsha. Cinematography handled by Shaji Kumar.

Plot

The story starts with Plapparambil family. It tells the family life of Plapparambil Paulo who has 3 children named Plapparambil Mathai, who is thrown out by his loanshark father as he converted into Islam to marry his lover. He is enough educated and was authorised to run their own jewelry, later is by Joykutty. Meanwhile,Paulo' next 2 sons are unmarried. He and his family is hated by the locals of the Kuttanadu region. Thoma falls in love with Sreelakshmi, the daughter of Bhagavathar, who also is one among the creditor of Paulo. Bhagavathar and even Sreelakshmi hates the family thus she rejects the love of Thoma. Here arrives the antagonist, an S. I named Rakesh who has an old score with the rich moneylender Paulo as his father is ashamed in front of the local after he is arrested by the police on an embezzlement years ago. He vows to destroy the Plapparambil family.
Thoma decides to overwrite the dislike of the locals towards his family by forcing Paulo to conduct a mass marriage of 5 orphaned girls so that both, the dislike by locals to the family can be removed and Joykutty will get better alliances from better family, thus Paulo would be able to fetch his target of 20 million.

Cast

The soundtrack was composed by Gopi Sundar, with lyrics by Murukan Kattakada, Nadirsha, Rajeev Alunkal.

Reception

Critical Reception

With an aggregate review score of 3/5 at "Reviewbol.com", the film earned mixed reviews from critics while response from the audience was generally positive. The film ultimately went on to become a box-office success and ran for over a 100 days.
Unni R. Nair of Kerala9.com rated the film and said that the film was "OK for Dileep fans and the family audience". Theaterbalcony gave it a total score of 57% on 100.

Box office

The film collected 4.77 lakhs from UK box office in two weekends and 2.48 lakhs from US box office in its first weekend.