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Nizhal didn’t work for me right from the first scene where we see a horrific accident and a horrific CGI bird. It shows that Baby (Kunchacko Boban) is a judge and he has a temper. But, he is also the sweetest person; you want to pinch his cheeks. The rest of the film keeps introducing new ideas: PTSD, a character which sees rain that nobody else sees, there are supernatural elements, there’s a Batman-like mask that a character who’s had an accident is using, there’s childhood trauma, a character who’s experience love failure in college and never comes out of it, and there’s a lot of stuff about the subconscious—but they don’t come together.
The central mystery is very interesting. It’s about a little boy who writes stories about an elaborate murder mystery (when his friends are writing about cats). But they turn out to be murders in real life too. The boy’s mother is Sharmila and played by Nayanthara. How does this boy know about these murders? That’s the central mystery that Baby has set out to solve.
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karzzexped
May 20, 2021
@BR – Bang on with the Lal reveal at the end. Before even I could get to know the guy he was swinging things at the female lead. This is particularly a gamble with huge build-ups like these because the reveal rarely pays off.
I found the big reveals to be so underwhelming in other movies like HIT (telugu), Forensic (Malayalam) in recent watches.
I too liked the core premise, but felt it could’ve been exploited a bit more.
Instead the screenplay tried to handle too many things at the same time. It was as if the movie didn’t know what it wanted to be. The second underwhelming movie that I got to see after “One” this month.
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JPhil
May 18, 2021
Sorry voiced by Shaktishree Gopalan…
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JPhil
May 18, 2021
Underwhelming certainly . Got to see the usual two expressions : one each for the lead stars . Nayanthara s constipated expression ( voiced by ? Madonna) and Boban’s scowl . He has two expressions , the grin for the romantic movies and the scowl for the others ( like 5am pathira for eg) . Keeping fit and good stylists have kept this two going for a long time .
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brangan
May 16, 2021
The transcript is up.
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