A biscuit factory becomes a battlefield against India's soul-crushing bureaucracy. Mohanlal vs. The System.
Midhunam movie is all about Sethumadhavan (Mohanlal) who has plans to start a biscuit factory near his house. But the bureaucracy and the corruption of the officials are the hurdles in front of him. Along with that he has to solve the problems in his family, which his brother (Innocent) and brother-in-law (Jagathy Sreekumar) creates. he marries his long-term fiancée Sulochana (Urvashi) who always cribs that he doesn't have love towards her, which he had shown before their marriage. How sethumadhavan succeeds in his life beating all the odds against him forms the rest of the story.
Acting
Mohanlal's exhausted everyman energy is devastatingly relatable.
Writing
Sreenivasan's script balances satire with genuine emotional weight.
Director
Priyadarshan
Mohanlal
Sethumadhavan
Urvashi
Sulochana
Sreenivasan
Preman
Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair
Kurup Master
Sukumari
Swamini Amma
Innocent
Kurup
Jagathy Sreekumar
Suguthan
Janardhanan
Sivaraman
Zeenath
Sankaradi
Sethu's Maternal Uncle
C I Paul
Chief Engineer Karunakaran
Kuthiravattam Pappu
Peethambaran
Nedumudi Venu
Chekkodu Swamy
Meena
Kaveri
Sulochana's Younger Sister
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film captures 1990s Kerala's License Raj era, where starting a business required navigating 20+ permits—a reality so satirized it barely needed exaggeration.
Priyadarshan and Mohanlal made this during their legendary 90s run; the biscuit factory set was built in a real defunct plant in Ottapalam.
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