Spoilers ahead…
Read the full review on Film Companion, here: http://www.filmcompanion.in/article/varnyathil-aashanka-movie-review
The title, Varnayathil Ashanka (Confusion in the Description), couldn’t be more appropriate. Sidharth Bharathan’s new film could be described as a “heist movie” – a jewellery-store heist is, after all, the most conspicuous aspect of the movie, the thing you’d mention in the one-liner plot description. But a viewer who walked in expecting the thrills of a heist movie – the plotting, the team-building, the painstaking preparations, the heart-stopping execution – would be confused. For the heist itself is conceived almost accidentally, and it plays out around the interval point: it begins a little before, it ends a little after. What, then, is the rest of the film about?
To get there, we need to begin with Pradheesh (Shine Tom Chacko). Listening to one of his schemes – labelling regular produce as “organic” and pocketing a profit – you’d be tempted to call him a criminal, but that’s too grand a word for him. He’s really just desperate. He isn’t particularly smart or hard-working or motivated, and the short-cut seems the easiest way to make money. But for what?
Continued at the link above.
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Manikandan
August 7, 2017
Nice curious movie – highly casual funny – ” Government job Government liquor & Government water – its a process” – loved it – every time your review comes up “on time” for little gem like these films. Its been the case I have seen this from “dekh Tamasha dekh” days.. Thank you baradwaj rangan sir 😊
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MANK
August 7, 2017
These are the movies that sustains ones faith in malayalam cinema. in these dark times, when audience are boycotting movies due to the alleged doings of a very popular actor who is behind bars now. Even something as special as thondimuthalum driksashiyum lost its audience after the crisis broke because of the extreme revulsion that the whole incident caused among the audience with regards to the film industry . But It helps that the jailed actor makes the worst films in the industry and the real malayalam cinema is in the hands of a new generation of filmmakers and actors who are extremely passionate about the medium . Hope these films are successful in luring the audience back to the theaters and malayalam cinema come out of this crisis more rejuvenated
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brangan
August 7, 2017
Manikandan: Dear god, I’d forgotten there was a film called Dekh Tamasha Dekh 🙂
MANK: So Thondimuthalum flopped? Was Maheshinte a hit (like a blockbuster)?
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MANK
August 7, 2017
Brangan. no Thondimuthalum is a superhit and it is a bigger hit than Maheshinte. it was on its way to be a blockbuster when the collections slowed down. Maheshinte prathikaram was a superhit (relative to its cost), not a blockbuster like Bangalore days ,Premam or Drishyam.
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Manikandan
August 8, 2017
Dear BR, 😃 incidentally Thrissur Gopalji and Feroz Abbas Khan have a Theatre background. Infact Feroz with his play Mughal e Azam s successful run feels theatre an alternative to cinema – what a perceptive reversal on Theatre s place today. We still have exceptions like theatre contributing at finer levels of making cinema but not a basic feeder it used to be.
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vishal yogin
August 10, 2017
I got lucky finally and there were enough people for this to be screened tonight. Talk of hurdles…the first one being subs, and then the minimum number required for the show to not be canceled.
I laughed SO much, and the feeling kept crashing over me that this was super cool. This would not have happened if you had not written (on time). Merci beaucoup, BR !
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