Sometimes

The movie is all about AIDS awareness. Credits to writing department. Each member has his story which r different. Priyadarshan is absolute genius. Direction is good. Screenplay is Lag in first hour but Can make it exception. The total movie is shown in a lab. Hardly shown outside in first few minutes to build up story. Prakash raj is too good. Ashok is perfect. Rest all the characters did well. Locations and cinematography can be made exception. Climax is a wow factor ! Watch itv

Basically an awareness movie with a fresh concept and realistic making through a suspense filled screenplay which doesn't preach the message it wants to but still emphasises without shoving it down the throat.

The movie starts out and establishes its tone straight away, introduces the characters in a simple manner.

It takes significant amount of time to get into the core, which may annoy some, but the slow pace doesn't necessarily make it uninteresting.

It uses the effect of a person's actions during frantic desperation to weave its suspense into place and continues to take the same anxiety into the extreme.

It does lack logic towards the end but from a writers point of view, it is used a crutch for the suspense.

The background score felt out of place in most of the places. It didn't do anything to capture the desparation.

Acting was on point, precariously perched, between realism and hyper expressive.

It casually inserts rhetorics about social issues in the dialogues which blends with the tone of the movie.

A movie primarily made with the goal to create social awareness about a critical issue, works decently enough as a movie too.

'Sometimes' succeeds in setting the mode, tone and character nuances for the idea that was intended to be conveyed. Right from scene 1, you find yourself amongst the anxious people who put their fate to 'test' at a clinic while waiting what it feels like forever, to be reported on their HIV contraction. The entire movie is a situation that most of us would witness in our daily lives at a hospital/blood test center. The emotions of each character inject themselves into your mind slow and strong that although you may constantly try to judge why they behave the way they do, you however are constantly in understanding the root cause of said actions. Everyone has their own reasons, justifiably simple and realistic. Toward the end, you are left with a minute discomfort, which makes you think about it all over again. This movie does strike the right cord. Every actor played their part with subtlety and within bounds. A valuable lesson on how to make a movie. It screams directorial excellence to me.

12 Angry Men, The Man from Earth, Exam, and Cube are some well-known Hollywood flicks coming to mind immediately when you hear about a chamber play (A movie shot entirely around a single set or maximum two, importance being given to the character development and their emotions rather than the location or the movements). It was about time someone does a well-executed Indian take on the same - Trust the ever brilliant Priyadarshan to pull it off to perfection in Sila Samayangalil (Sometimes)! Based entirely inside a diagnostic centre from morning to evening, the movie is all about 7 people who have done an HIV test in the morning and waiting for results which would be delivered the evening only. Added to this tense and broken brigade of characters is the receptionist going through a financial crunch and the lab technician whom she manipulates. The 7 waiting persons decide to bribe the receptionist so as to know the results early since the wait till evening 5 is killing them out of anxiety. After sometimes they come to know that 6 among them have been tested negative, while only one is being declared positive, the catch being that the technician couldn't specifically record who the unlucky one amongst the 7 was! From there the movie develops through their emotions, guilt, anxiety and stress. Apart from being an intense drama on this serious topic, Sila Samayangalil strives to create more awareness on this disease, dwindling more on the social stigma and ostracization associated with it rather than the more common medical implications. The sound recording is a minute but laudable aspect of this flick, silence replacing the BGM for the majority part. The day to day street sounds , the hawkers and vendors resonances and the white noise comes in as a blaring hindrance whenever the doors or windows of the diagnostic centre opens briefly, otherwise masked by the eerie periodic chime of the token number only. Amongst the cast, Prakash Raj does a cakewalk as the introvert middle aged man out to test his status, plagued by guilt over his brief encounter in the past. But it's Ashok Selva who gives a brilliant performance as the outspoken youngster coming in to test his status. His hyperactive mannerisms and the stark difference with the introverted Prakash raj and the amusing acquaintance they form over the course take the screenplay further. Chances are there this flick will bore you if you are not patient enough to let the proceedings unfold slowly but surely without any songs or BGM, each frame exploring the characters one by one. Time and again such rare gems have the same fate of not getting a theatrical release, in this case at least being released in Netflix. 34 years since he has marked his presence as a director, Priyadarshan is a man who has been mocked often for his inspired stories and screenplays from Hollywood and his uncanny knack of remaking films into Bollywood from the south. The new gen wannabe intellects have even gone to the extent of labelling him as a slapstick churner in favour of the recent Kochi based crop of self-declared new wave filmmakers, but Priyadarshan has proved again why he is one the most creative and technically brilliant filmmakers out there who knows what they does exactly. Sila Samayangalil would easily go in as one of his best creations - together with Kaalapani, Kancheevaram and all the hit 90's flicks with Lalettan!

Script was good and climax need improvisation.and Script has a slow manner of approach.