If a horror film fails to scare you, is it even a horror film? Lechmi is that kind of a film where the drama overpowers a handful of scary sequences to gradually burden you with tedium. Parvathy Ratheesh plays a spirit of sorts who is trapped in the real life in a high-rise apartment because her death was an unnatural one. And now a group of sound engineers have to help her find her murderer and let her soul rest in peace. To tell this story, director B N Shajeer Sha takes a lot of time and eventually ends his story haphazardly. In an attempt to create humor, he makes his characters do petty things and uses unsuccessful slapstick, which do not fail to bore the viewer. Of course, there is a whiff of novelty in the idea of a ghost working with real-life people, but the execution is inconsistent and overlong. I don't even know why Biju Sopanam had to be brought in because laughs did not come out during his presence. The theme focuses on the plight of women who are unable to go out at night (something that also Dijo Jose Antony's Queen experimented with earlier in 2018') and you may get the point. But the problem is that you will be aghast it took so long for the makers to make that point. The cast is largely amateurish, which is evident from Ratheesh's deadpan expressions and extras coming in as lead players. Lechmi, therefore, is a very average drama film with an interesting concept but floppy execution.
