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August 4, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The film plays like a revenge story mixed with a mockumentary, and. The eco-issues spoken about are all too real. But the treatment is surreal. The best thing about Krishand’s new film, Aavasavyuham, is its English title: “The Arbit Documentation Of An Amphibian Hunt”. It describes so well what’s about to follow, the […]
August 4, 2022
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July 22, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The film is a story of redemption, the transformation of a machine into a man. And the agent of this transformation is a natural calamity. There’s a lot of rain in Malayankunju, directed by Sajimon Prabhakar. The roofs are leaking into buckets on the floor. Outside the home, plastic sheets are not helping. […]
July 21, 2022
Spoilers ahead… This is possibly the strangest courtroom drama you have ever seen. (I think it has “potential cult classic” written all over it.) Abrid Shine is an absolute original. His Poomaram, about an inter-college arts festival, is one of the best Malayalam films of the recent crop – “new gen” or whatever they are […]
July 12, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The non-stop travelling by the camera reflects this man’s non-stop physical travels, his non-stop mental travels. R Parthiban is known for being different. His latest feature, Iravin Nizhal, is the world’s first non-linear single-shot film. Now, let’s break that up and look at the “single-shot” part first. Everything is captured in one 90-odd-minute […]
July 7, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The walls of both family houses are filled with pictures of those who have been murdered from times before the events of this film began. These walls are a testament to the increasing violence between the two families. Paka is structured on the classic Romeo-Juliet story: in this story, they are named Johnny […]
July 4, 2022
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June 29, 2022
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June 10, 2022
Spoilers ahead… Building up a thriller is half the struggle. The “how will they end it” question is the other half. Both are satisfactory. Is Innale Vare a cautionary tale about technology? Or is it a cautionary tale about human behaviour? The first thing we see in Jis Joy’s film is a piece of technology: […]
May 31, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The cleverest touch is something that happens to Jayasurya, something that hinders his job. There’s not an iota of sadness or self-pity. The work must go on. It’s strange how two films released the same week are so similar, yet so different. Rajeev Ravi’s Kuttavum Shikshayum is about cops investigating a case. Broadly […]
May 30, 2022
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May 30, 2022
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 […]
May 21, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The film is not unwatchable, exactly. But none of the characters are terribly interesting, so it never matters who the culprit is going to be. Jeethu Joseph’s 12th Man opens with a secret that quickly is told to someone, who tells it to someone else, and so on – until the secret is […]
May 20, 2022
Spoilers ahead… What the film does well is instill in us a deep fear of what hackers are capable of. But that cannot sustain a feature. Rahul Riji Nair has had an interesting career. He started out with indie-ish films like Ottamuri Velicham and the superb Kalla Nottam, where the GoPro camera dictated our point […]
May 19, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The filmmaking is solid, but the writing does not match up. The excessive focus on the protagonist leaves the other characters stranded. In an early scene in Ratheena’s Puzhu, a young boy reads aloud pages from a textbook. These pages are about the “toilet-cleaning community” and how Gandhiji opposed this. Many decades later, […]
May 12, 2022
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May 9, 2022
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May 2, 2022
Spoilers ahead… The form does not match the powerful content, but this is a very effective and very watchable drama. Dijo Jose Antony’s Jana Gana Mana opens with a voiceover that says truth always triumphs. That is what we are taught to believe, right? But is that statement itself true? Because, today, aren’t we surrounded […]
April 22, 2022
Spoilers ahead… I wished for more focus in the narrative, but Saiju Kurup holds it all together with one of his strongest performances yet. Let’s first talk about the title – Antakshari – of the Malayalam thriller directed by Vipin Das, now streaming on SonyLIV. Antakshari – as many of you may know – is […]
August 5, 2022
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