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12 Jun 2026, 2:30 am
Habeebi Movie Review:
What is life without the namma ooru mann vasanaiThe weight of these words struck hard, more so in the after-effects of veteran filmmaker Bharathiraja’s death who led a number of stories in the hinterlands of Southern India. Meera Kathiravan’s most current movie Habeebi too falls in this category and focuses on a Muslim household’s altering characteristics through the years as they face loss of income. At its core, the movie is a long romance– in between couples, school child, and even the craft of handloom weaving. Motion pictures in the category are aplenty, however its treatment is what makes it differ. While romantic motion pictures set inside a Muslim family are sporadic, Habeebi stops working to direct the possible it has and catches the very same narrative cliches that it wishes to move far from.
Cast: Kasthuri Raja, Esha, Malavika Manoj, Dhanasree Sudhakaran and others
Director: Meera Kathiravan
Mohammed Yusuf (Kasthuri Raja), a strong patriarch, does not wish to release his craft in the middle of fast industrialisation. In his own words, the noise of weaving was his very first lullaby when he was born. As his bro heads to West Asia for task chances, time does little to recover Yusuf as he continuously deals with pressure to cut ties with his generational craft. Yusuf’s child Abu Tahir (Esha) is his soft area. Esha and his neighbour Niloufer (Malavika Manoj) are love birds stuck in their own cages. It deserves keeping in mind that Niloufer takes a trip through the movie sans discussions and has little to no firm in a world that scrutinises females outside their homes.