The Arbit Documentation of An Amphibian Hunt: Aavasavyuham

Shot in a mockumentary style, this film is super unique. The existence of a unique human set in the backdrop of a very mundane and unspectacular vypin is so rooted in reality. The weaving in of social comemntary like overfishing, land encroachment, unemployment etc also worked well. Nicely told story and a great watch. So happy to see this sort of work coming out of Malayalam cinema.

Movies like this push film craft in different ways. What starts like a documentary moves in interesting ways bring out the characterisation and human emotions.

Unlike some of the pretentious leftist crap that get dished out every now and then in Malayalam & Tamil films, this one gives it real even to the activists who only mostly succeed in destroying anything good around.

If the amphibian went a about his life without mixing with the wretched activist communist, he might have got a good life eating what he wanted and also a girl who took to him. But, typically, if u get mixed up with such activists, your life will be ruined and society will continue with its ways.

Good film and good film making.

Saw this at the IFFK screening where i went in with not knowing what to expect - and i got out of the theatre with a rare sense of joy.."what did i just witness!". An intricate storyline that has multiple visual styles. A realistic film studded with surrealist elements almost reminiscent of Donald Glover and Hiro Murai's acclaimed series Atlanta. A bold social commentary underlines the plot at every turn and it fails at none. Made in a semi-documentary style (similar to character interviews in the Office series) and thriller & comedic elements throughout the runtime made it an exciting watch. A bit sad that this isn't widely accessible outside the film festival circle and even then only screened at select few festivals- more people need to be able to watch this gem!

I can't recall a Malayalam movie that successfully used a mockumentary structure before. Even though it is also a sci-fi and a social satire, it is never chained to any of these genres. Usually, when Malayalam movies take such an experimental route for the industry, it is expected to be slow artsy movie, here this is as commercial as such a film can get. It is an entertainer from the very first minute. It shows the limitation of its budget in certain aspects of filmmaking which is the only reason I couldn't give it another half star. The same limitation in casting is the only reason I can think of why the makers decided to do an OTT release without so much of marketing. This would've been a great theater experience.

I am a cinephile and I watch atleast one movie per day,as a part of it I got to know about this Malayalam movie as a suggestion. I searched this movie in Google and the poster looked so interesting, so immediately i downloaded the movie. I started watching the movie and from scene to scene the movie was running so interestingly and finally the climax was mind blowing. The cinematography of the movie was so good and the actor as main lead was brilliant,his performance and his looks are backbone of the movie. It was a new kind of movie upto now I didn't saw that kind of film,the directors experiment became a success, every cinephile should must watch this film.