Ekalavya

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Directed by Alfred, 'Ekalavya' is a tale of two warring brothers divided over each other's priorities. Kamal Lochan plays Abhay, a young lad in love who can't summon the confidence to ask Kavya, his dream girl, out fearing rejection and instead secretly dedicates poetry for her. Kavya on the other hand, appears to be aware of Abhay's feelings for her, but she prefers to wait for him to get up the nerve to ask her out.

As the film progresses, Abhay's adopted brother takes the benefit of this doubt, which leads up to a story of love, hatred, and jealousy, and as well as that of a fateful night that transforms everyone's life.

But because the premise is pretty straightforward, the writers aimed towards the narrative for some inventiveness. So, now with all the switching between the past and the present, its more justified to describe 'Ekalavya' as the story of a common man who transforms into a ruthless outlaw in order to make up for being wrongfully convicted of a crime.

This approach to tell the story is a bit dark and grimy. So far, all fair and good only that it felt like the plot was not given much care when it came to layering it with a perspective of sacrifice. It's there but it's only to justify the title.

Also, the narrative moves in so many different directions that it's hard to intake the significance of what the director actually wanted us to show. It tries to establish too many things at once - Abhay's loyalty to his master, his past, his future and Abhay himself. It's not that you don't understand it but it just doesn't fittingly come together as a whole.