Mukundan Unni Associates

Mukundan Unni Associates is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language dark comedy crime film directed by Abhinav Sunder Nayak featuring Vineeth Sreenivasan, Suraj Venjaramoodu and Aarsha Chandini Baiju in lead roles.

Venu OV approaches him in the hospital and with Mukundan's permission, converts the case to a road accident and helps him get a claim.

Mukundan is now married to the hospital receptionist who was helping him all the way, and while on his honeymoon, he decides to kill himself because he does not find any way to avoid arrest.

The judge Sanghameshwaran who was handling Mukundan's case is now in police custody and under suspension because they find evidence of fake judgement in his laptop that was planted by the hospital owner.

To prevent the kids to be moved to any other hospital, he cuts off the electricity, short circuits the generator and pours water in the fuel tanks of all ambulances.

Reviewer Aswin Bharadwaj's lensmenreviews recommended the film with his iconic green color, lauding it as "an unapologetic wacky dark comedy."

"The only issue I had with the film is the lack of tightness one can feel in the third act, as there isn’t a precise central conflict in the movie.

[6] In The New Indian Express, Sajin Shrijith wrote "Abhinav Sunder Nayak’s Mukundan Unni Associates is also the most visually inventive film since Thallumaala.

He also speak highly of "Cinematographer Vishwajith Odukkathil’s brown and beige-dominated frames carry much elegance and keep their focus firmly on the characters."

The assisting of technical elements for the characterization was also impressive according to Sajin; "Lapse footage, jump cuts, collages, or disorienting camera tilts and zooms to give us a sense of the passage of time, or a character’s state of mind."

"[8] Cris of The News Minute also find the issues related to repetitiveness, even though she is impressed with the performance of actors and dark humour.

"Though the film is packed with events, with Mukundan running from one failed scheme to another in the first half, all of it appears to go through a maze that reaches nowhere.

[9] Baradwaj Rangan through Galatta Plus largely commended the film by saying that "Mukundan Unni Associates is a delicious, deadpan, dark comedy, with a superbly cast vineeth sreenivasan."