Spoilers ahead…
This is not a glamorous script. It’s not about supercops. It’s chess-like writing, where each move is incremental, the result of thought rather than action.
Kuttavum Shikshayum, directed by Rajeev Ravi, is like a balloon. It’s flat and limp and unremarkable at first, and as narrative air keeps going into it, it expands and it expands and becomes nothing like the shape it originally was, and you see designs and patterns that keep spreading out until the whole thing, finally, goes pop. The unremarkable thing at the beginning is an unremarkable robbery at an unremarkable jewellery store. But as the investigation begins, we see that the early unremarkableness was part of the film’s design. And thereon, the narrative becomes bigger and bigger: in terms of geography, in terms of the number of characters, in terms of the danger, and in terms of the stakes. But here’s the thing: Kuttavum Shikshayum is not a thriller. The ballooning effect happens due to painstaking and minute procedural details that keep pumping air into the narrative. I think the film is some kind of classic.
You can read the rest of the review here:
https://www.galatta.com/malayalam/movie/review/kuttavum-shikshayum/
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Sri Prabhuram
May 30, 2022
Rajeev Ravi is becoming one of the most iconic film directors in new-gen Malayalam cinema (if he isn’t already).
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ravenus1
May 31, 2022
The bare plot of these officers going into a hostile North Indian settlement of criminals reminded me of that Karthi cop film Theeran. Of course, without the superheroics and cloying romance.
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Senthil S
May 31, 2022
Sad that movie received such a tepid response here. All the social media reviews are “below average” or “Rajeev Ravi’s worst.” When I went to watch it, I was told that shows were stopped due to a lack of attendance.
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