2019, Malayalam, Amazon prime, 7.7/10 IMDB, Directed by Mathukutty Xavier
A survival drama spun over sentiments, wins you over with its making and screenplay.
Father daughter relationship, a Hindu boy in relationship with a Christian girl, the female lead, a nursing graduate, focused and persistent to go abroad to clear her father’s debt, working in a fast food joint just to get the hang of the English language may be.. You are lured with many possible knots but the movie surprisingly takes a totally different route and a real good one.
However close you are to your girl child, you end up blaming them when it comes to their love life and its sadly true, especially when all fingers point to the one incident where the boy had flawed.
But the strength of the movie is, during the time of a crisis, the boy assures the dad that, the girl is not a weak person and she wouldn’t do anything stupid as she loves her dad too much. The director scores immensely in that instance.
On the whole, a complete package of emotions, thrill, trust, love and survival. Fine acting by Anna Ben and lal as the father daughter and Noble babu does a good job as the boy friend.
The purposeful delay in tracking the mobile phone does cause some concern as it lags the otherwise fast grippy screenplay. The director should have motored the screenplay through other means. And the scene where the nurse is fixing an ankle dislocation, shouldn’t it be like she witnesses the dislocation being reduced rather than fixing it herself. Small things does contribute to the realism of the movie that we end up buying the story, doesnt it. The director should have been smarter.
Because it’s Vineeth Sreenivasan’s productions, we are forced with a scene, where he posses to be instrumental in speeding up the investigation. Luckily, the scene was a short one and you get past it quickly. No harm done to the momentum of the movie.
What is it with the Malayalam movies, they role the ‘Based on True Events’ as an end credit rather than an opening credit, I keep wondering.
Yet again, I tried my best. not to give away the plot.
Must watch👍