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Producer: Rafi, Mecartin
Director: Rajasenan
Music Director: Alex Paul
Cinematography: K.P. Nambiathiri
Editor: Raja Mohamed
Art: Boban
Lyricist: Vyalar Sharad Chandra Varma
Screenplay: Rafi, Mecartin
Romeo is the first Christmas offering for Malayalam cine buffs. Directed by Rajasenan, it's a family entertainer, with lots of hilarious sequences produced by veteran writers Rafi and Mecartin. The last Rajasenan comedy film with a script penned by Rafi and Mecartin was Anniyan Bava Chetan Bava.
Romeo revolves around a male nurse romantically involved with several women, leading to complex situations.
Manu, son of junior artist Ratheesh Kumar (Cochin Haneefa) and former singer Lakshmikutty Amma (Mallika Sukumaran), works as a male nurse in a very big hospital. Manu is a cool, friendly guy who falls for every girl he meets. Manu and Dr. Priya (Vimala Raman) are close friends since childhood. Priya is in love with Manu but does not express her love.
Manu, on the other hand, is in love with Leena (Samvrutha), a singer contesting in a TV reality show where Manu's mother is one of the judges. Manu tries to help Leena win the contest by requesting everyone to vote for her. Leena's father, rich businessman Avarachan (Bheeman Reghu), bribes Ratheesh Kumar to make Leena win the contest. However, despite everyone's efforts, Leena fails to win the competition.
Manu and his friend Prasanth (Sooraj Venjaramoodu) hatch a plan to console the aggravated Avarachan and convince him to get his daughter married to Manu. Avarachan agrees to the proposal on the condition that Manu gets converted to Christianity. Manu thus gets converted to Christianity and is now named Manuel. But to everyone's dismay, Leena now refuses to marry Manu. This creates more trouble for Manu, who has already lost his job due to his conversion.
Manu's friend Prasanth helps him find a job as a home nurse to take care of an insane person named Ramanathan (Riza Bava) in a Brahmin agraharam. For this new job, Manu pretends to be a Brahmin and introduces himself as Subramani. Manu meets a Brahmin girl, Bhama (Sruthilakshmi) who sings bhajans in temples. Love blossoms between Subramani and Bhama as she finds him to be a good man, quite different from the drunkard (Ashokan) who wants to marry her. But when the community learns that Manu is actually a Christian, Manu finds himself in more big trouble and runs away from the agraharam.
Priya helps Manu at this stage; he now realizes that she is in love with him. Priya convinces her father, retired CBI officer Raghava Menon, to get her married with Manu. Leena decides to marry Manu, as she does not like the person approved by her father. Meantime, Bhama has been thrown out of her house. Along with her friends, she wanders around in search of Manu to marry him. Whom does Manu finally marry?
Dileep has given a superb performance as Manu. Samvrutha does a wonderful job. Vimala Raman is good as Priya. Newcomer Sruthilakshmi is ok. Other supporting cast (Riza Bava, Sooraj Venjaramoodu, Salim Kumar, Bheeman Reghu, Mallika Sukumaran, Cochin Haneefa and Ashokan) add to the comic elements of the film.
Alex Paul and Vyalar Sarath Chandra Varma together provide some very good songs. The song 'Killichundan mavvil thanupu ulla thanalil' is excellent. The movie begins well with several funny scenes to keep you entertained, but the second half gets boring at times and moves at a slow pace.
An average comic entertainer targeted at family audiences.
