Christy

With two major names in the Malayalam literary world - Benyamin and Indugopan - sharing screenplay credits, I wouldn't call it wrong to expect greater depths to the protagonists, a well-etched romance, and some situational humour. But Christy is flat from start to finish; its positives include a soulful score by Govind Vasantha (who infuses a 96 hangover to several scenes) and aesthetically pleasing shots by Anend C Chandran.

Mathew Thomas is okay in the initial portions where he has to play a confused teenager in love with an older woman, but the writing leaves him absymally ruined in the second half. Malavika Mohanan is extremely photogenic, but her dialogue-delivery needs to improve. The dubbing is also bad, and her Malayalam comes off as a bizarre blend of Payyannur slang and an NRI accent, with forced Trivandrum phrases added in. As the titular character, we barely get to know what's going through Christy's mind in various phases of the film. This includes her failed marriage, her thoughts on Roy's abrupt proposal, how she feels about being held by the waist and kissed reluctantly, what she thinks about having to move away from home, and so much more.

Everything that could build to a solid character arc is brushed aside to portray a version of Christy that smiles 99% of the time, courtesy of romanticized clichés such as sudden rains, beach waves, bus rides, and everything customary. Roy's immaturity in love is somehow passed off as something unconditional and great, especially in that tame final act playing out at two different airports. Since the complexity presented here is technical rather than emotionally-affecting, these scenes fail to leave any sort of impression. The bigger blame, no doubt, should be directed towards the bland writing. Also, a Trivandrum-based film strictly needs more Trivandrum-based actors.

I loved the movie, period! It leaves you with a feeling that can't be described but felt. The longing to be with someone or someone's love has been portrayed beautifully. The character of Roy who's carefree amd unaware of the practicality of this world vs. That of Christy's who has seen how hard and cruel reality is. The director in my opinion was successful in depicting that spark when we fall in love and at the same time the helplessness. The ending is also perfect. Not everything needs to be spoonfed to the audience. We all can have our own opinion on why Christy didn't accept it in the end. The last shot on the beach was just amazing. Roy was heart broken but he was holding the camera gifted by Christy...in a way she was with him.

This movie newly I watched in 2024, I referred every one students and teen age people's should watch this movie, this movie is real incident story.

In this life time some people's likes, caring, loving and hates but time will answering everyone, who knows loving people's hates you and hatting people's likes you, so first in this generation money is more important and education is also very important.

Overall movie is too good and everyone acting superb like real and this movie available in 5 languages , I watched in kannada language Cinematography is awesome, director sir I want this type of more films.

What a horrible ploy? This is not the first time teen or younger male, has fallen in love with an older woman. There have been many movies of this concept, most notably Love Story; which set off a lot of copycat scripts.

The whole plot seemed contrived, dont know if it is direction/screenplay or the acting. Mathew (Roy) expressions these days are so repetitive - nothing different from what he has done in his first movie. Malavika (Christy) did a better job, but she too was very robotic in many sequences.

It appeared, everybody acting in this movie, were forced to perform. Even some of the character artists, parents, neighbours etc., all seemed like they were doing someone a favor.

Luckily i finished it in half the time, forwarding literally every scene. Painfully slow shot or dragging scene plays.

Christy was one movie that i waited to get into theatres. I followed the songs and was at the audio launch in lulu. Trailer had amazing reach with over 5 million views.

Experiencing the movie at the theatre was thrilling. I have to say the visualisation of poovar and maldives was amazing.poovar is one beauty we keralites havent explored to its potential. I loved the music and the flow of the story .literaly mesmerised by the way story was narrated. Mathew and Malavika did fabulous job ,they did great justice to the characters. Climax was very touching. I am sure many could relate to this story.

Loved to watch again with family at theatre.