Paka (River of Blood)

Was fortunate to get a chance to watch this movie in Redsea film festival Saudi Arabia. Thanks to the Directior Mr. Nithin & Producer Mr Raj for inviting me.

Simplistic movie with powerful script . Nicely directed & with good BGM. Most of the actors have done a great job regardless for their experience. The voiceover , dubbing stars also did a great job. Everything seems real without any gimmicks.

Will be on a watchout for more from Mr Nithin.

The main reason I watched Paka was only because of one man, Anurag Kashyap who is onboard as one of the movie's producers. The trailer gives me a glimpse of what might be the core and the movie's treatment. Paka is a raw movie, that seems to be an alien thing to the Malayalam film industry (some of Lijo Jose Pellissery's movies are exceptional) and looks like an art-house thriller product. It has some sort of reference from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet where the subject revolves around the love affair of Jhonny and Anna both of them from two rival families. They look forward to the unity of their families through their marriage. But something disastrous is going to happen when the protagonist's father's younger brother comes to the place after a long term of imprisonment. The tagline or the subtitle of the movie is River of Blood and it is so suitable for the movie because the river plays an important role in the movie. Every moment or the hypes in the film are connected with the river. We can experience and entertain through a small remote village in the outskirts of Kerala where the majority of the people are illiterate and doing simple jobs. So we can see some sort of wild nature in each and everyone which pleases the entirety of the movie. Most of the actors are new ones but that doesn't reflect while they performing their particular characters. The most important thing that I found special in the movie is the sound design. We can feel the minimal usage of background score in the movie because the sound of nature got its prominence here. The entire graph of the movie can be judged through the progression of the sound. As I early said, the story takes place in a remote village, so the beauty and the visual imagery have gained something important which gave us attention to the movie. When we look out the river seems to be a little one and the director doesn't intend to shoot the river with a wide lens but the situations happening around shows us the violent as well as raw nature of the river. Director Nithin Lukose's debut attempt was a good one and he can do better with his next one.

This movie is a revenge story in a village backdrop with a natural and rustic looking and gripping screenplay. All Actors acted naturally. Director did the job as an seasoned/experienced though it is his first movie as a director. I really liked the screenplay and sound design.

Was fortunate to watch the international premier of PAKA at Toronto International Film Festival. Team Paka deserves a big round of applause. It's the story of feud... Though screens a family feud, it's beyond that. Well narrated, metaphors used were awesome, and connects with the audience of all generations.

Casting was excellent. Even though most of the actors were first timers, all of them marked their presence. Nithin Lukose, a sound designer tuned director, in his directorial debut, made sure that his movie should be noted for the magic of sound too.

PAKA should be experienced in a theatre, at least in a home theatre with surround sound. To get the real feel of the movie. Well done team. More and more festivals to go...Expecting more from the team.

Generally as a cinephile I used to watch atleast 1 movie per a day, recently i started watching underrated Malayalam movies and as a part of it I got to know about this PAKA movie and after knowing "Anurag kashyap" produced this movie i immediately downloaded and Started watching this movie. From the beginning onwards the film went so interestingly and the film was so good. The Nativity of that village the characters and the people all of them was so perfect,and the climax was also perfect,and the length of the film is also less so it was short and best movie,every cinephile should must watch this film.