The story starts almost close to half way through and till than it's all just stylish shots, trying too hard to bring a feel of thrill and anticipation. There is no true thing or character you can hook into. You can get some bits and pieces of what each one and wanting, but it's like, WHY? I mean why are you watching it, it feels. But even later when you do realize, relate or something it's like meaningless, like was this the reason?
Technically speaking it's more like a short film, dragged to be a feature film, while posing as if we are debating something too psychological issues and human , animal behaviour as such. Same thing Jallikattu did but even there too it's more like few American European filmmakers concept being pulled and gave a Indian context. Both this and Jallikkatu are more or less similar, but Jallikkatu had bit of story and characters to think about, but here they delay it so late. It.
Let me tell something to all regional especially new film makers, specially from Malayalam and Tamil filmmakers who are trying too hard to prove that they are doing some crazy good films, while they aren't. It's because they got to stop trying to be fake philosophers or psychologist or film nerd while all many can see is that, you guys are copy pasting European, American, Iranian film concepts and recreate posing as though no one can get it, projecting as though we are new age filmmakers. No please don't. Be genuine to yourself.
There is a quote, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so!".
There is this series of such pretentious films from many filmmakers coming since few years now. It come across so fake, so deliberate, so pretentious and someone who studied films and watched world cinema for years will pick it and know what you guys are doing. This film and many suffers because of that. It's like Karan Johar trying to act like he is greatest filmmaker, while all he knows and good at is fashion, making actors being swanky, fake heroes! Many new films from regional cinema as heading to that direction.
This movie on the outer layer looks cool, inside tries too hard but so makes it so bad. Surely there are few good films, the thing is if you be genuinely brilliant or smart or good, you try less to impress, and more to tell a story. Stop trying to impress and things will fall in place.
