None of the characters you would root for as you don't truly care for their needs, except the lead actress if you call. All others are just there for the prop. And the second half narration gives a different perspective which seems just there to show what happened and comes across not really a needed impact. Ending too is predictable for that situation and seemed forced.
And what truly annoyed me were songs. Though it's good but why? I mean why are you you adding songs. That too a modern rendition of Janapada singing. The songs no doubt is good but trying to fuse it in this makes it seem acting smart to say as if "Look this is art cinema" as such. It genuinely feels pointless. And the modern take on japaada though is good but if you over do it, it becomes unfit for films. It's like going to a restaurant based on a theme of village and while you order brew filter coffee which comes in traditional ways but your orders are all Chinese or Italian pizza kind of pretentious. The whole movie when I kept hearing the songs felt extremely like those pretentious outwardly looking traditional restaurants where it's just for show off, not genuinely traditional. And each order is quite expensive and just all fluff but no substance kind. Even acting at times feels bad.
The movie because of that might leave a bad taste to you if you truly love art films or something like looking for hardcore thriller, because it's neither here nor there kind. As though filmmaker wanted to prove I'm super good sort of and each one were over doing it. The songs truly annoyed me to the core even though separately it is good to hear.
It could have been a good movie if they worked on the character development and kept it just genuine, simple rather than trying too hard to be thriller and also artsy. Most filmmakers do that, even in Tamil cinema, and Malayalam cinema they do this. Like hugely influenced filmmakers of here and there world cinema and they try to show off and its like half baked attempt. Might sound harsh comment, but truly, be yourself when telling story things will come out truly amazing.
