Kadam Katha

For a film that's supposed to be a comedy drama, Kadam Katha is not at all funny. It's just a dumb film that looks like it was produced on a whim. The writer must have seen a few recent films that talk about debt-ridden men looking for a way out and coughed up a story that is so ennui-inducing, it gets annoying just after 20 minutes. The leading two characters are played by talented actors but even a thespian like Renji Panicker cannot salvage the film that is written shoddily, edited poorly, and executed without imagination. Even when a film is not interesting, there are tiny bits - these tiny attention to details - that makes it a bearable affair. With Kadam Katha, even the tiny bits are unpleasantly wrong. The story moves around like a roller coaster from a drama about two debt-ridden men to one about murder to one about a coup. It's just so distressing to see things unfold here that you pray no one else watches it. Senthil Rajan's Kadam Katha is an awful attempt at conveying a story that makes no sense. At the end, you are going to feel just like most of the characters in this film do: horrible. TN.