His Highness Abdullah takes a fairly improbable premise and still manages to weave a decent movie out of it, with some excellent music. Nedumudi Venu’s character is some minor potentate-type, lording it over a nextended family that wants him dead so they can get their hands on his fortune. Mohanlal’s character is a (Muslim) singer in Mumbai, who gets hired by Sreenivasan to off said potentate. He has to first endear himself by posing as a (Hindu) classical singer, which offers a lot of scope for songs like this to be included in the movie. Of course, being the good guy he has cold feet and eventually ends up saving NV’s life.
