Synopsis: A mute woman wrongfully arrested at Sabarimala is separated from her young son, and decades later a chance encounter sets off a belated search for the truth.
Some films feel like they arrived via time capsule, not a production house. Sannidhanam PO plays like something assembled in the early 90s, complete with the melodrama, the contrivances, and the unshakeable belief that if you pile on enough heartbreak, the audience will forget to ask questions.
Yashodha (Sithara) is wrongfully arrested at Sabarimala, leaving her young son Sabari adrift. He ends up absorbed into a stranger's family, grows up to become a caterer (Yogi Babu), and has no idea who his real mother is. Yashodha, out of jail and working as domestic help, is still looking. A cop's daughter eventually stumbles onto the connection.
The setup alone strains credulity repeatedly. A wrongful arrest here, a convenient accident there, a boy who latches onto a stranger's family through sheer narrative necessity. Each coincidence arrives fully formed, asking for your cooperation without earning it. Then come the flashbacks. Lots of them. Explaining things the film already told you, then explaining them again. By the time the present-day search kicks in, you've long since stopped caring who finds whom.
Yogi Babu holds his own in patches, landing a few laughs when the material allows. Sithara commits to the physical demands of playing Yashodha with some conviction. Not enough to salvage a film that keeps underlining sentences already read. Sannidhanam PO means well, but never figures out when it has said enough.
Written By: Abhinav Subramanian