There is a spelling mistake in the title of the Malayalam movie Falimy, but that is deliberate, explains debutant Nithish Sahadev about his film. “It is a clue to the error in the ways and thinking of a dysfunctional family. We can’t really call them a family,” he adds.
The film, he says, is a light-hearted take on a middle-class family and their aspirations. Living in a narrow lane in Thiruvananthapuram, Chandran’s family consists of his wife, two sons and his father (Neenaraj Palluruthy). Chandran (Jagadish) runs an old-fashioned press that has fallen into difficult times as he does not update it because he doubts the viability of digital printing. His wife Rema (Manju Pillai) works at a private digital press. The eldest son (Basil Joseph) is a dubbing artist working on dubbing a Hindi web serial Hey Sulochana. The youngest (Sandeep Pradeep) dreams of going abroad to strike it rich. Naïve and simple, their life becomes complicated because of their ego and complexes.
