Chettayees: Lovable Rascals is a 2012 Malayalam comedy film written by Sachy and directed by Shajoon Kariyal.
It stars Lal, Biju Menon, Suresh Krishna, P. Sukumar, Sunil Babu and Miya in pivotal roles.
The friends are John a lawyer, Kichu a percussionist, Roopesh Krishna an actor, Bava a chef and Babumon a government employee.
John gets angry and reveals to Merlin that on the day before the New Year's Eve when Kichu suffered from chest pain, he made John to record a will which states that after Kichu's death, Merlin won't have any rights in his properties.
But later it turns out that John acted that way to rebuild Kichu's married life and that plan works.
They keep their friendship going without Merlin knowing about it but in the final scene it shows she knew about it all the time and she has no issues with it anymore.
It was in the sets of 2007 film Chocolate that script writer Sachy approached Shajoon Kariyal with an interesting thread.
[2] Biju Menon, Shajoon, Sachy, Suresh Krishna, P. Sukumar and Sunil Babu used to get together in a flat in Kochi very often.
"[1] Everyone liked the story and Shajoon, who was in search for a good script, immediately decided to direct the film.
"[3] Sify.com's critic concluded his review stating, "Chettayees hits the extremes, good and bad that is, and mostly fails to keep a healthy balance.
"[4] Veeyen of Nowrunning.com rated the film 1.8 stars out of 5 and said: "Chettayees could have made interesting material, had the makers added up to the very limited resources available at their disposal.
But it makes no efforts to tide over these restraints and remains adamant that the ultimate effects produced are nothing above mediocre.
This film sadly has a theme that could be discussed in ten minutes sharp; and that it has been stretched to a couple of hours is what makes the movie tiresome.
"[5] IBN Live rated the film 6 in a scale of 10 and concluded their review saying, "Chettayees is an average fare, that could have hit big, if handled with a little more sensitivity and aplomb.