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Vellam' movie review: Jayasurya's performance keeps afloat this archetypal drunkard tale

The film, inspired from real-life incidents, portrays the sheer helplessness of an addict

Liquor consumes Murali, rather than the other way around, as it is with most people. Every waking hour is spent thinking about the way to get his next drink, without which he just cannot function. Once, he sells even his daughter’s study table to buy a drink while another time he is shown drinking a whole bottle of cough syrup to get high. Vellam, a colloquial usage to refer to drunkards, is this man’s story.