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Don't watch this movie till...

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Am Ah This is no ordinary movie to watch. You need a certain kind of heart to watch it. A heart that can and cannot bear pain. Watch it when you are ready to expand the definition of entertainment and the purpose of cinema. Watch it only when you are sick and finally tired of the formulaic, insipid, uninspiring and stupid, big budget latka jhatka movies that come out from most of the film industries that make us dumb and dumber. What a movie!!! Finally I could weep tears of joy after quite some time. Thank you so much to the writer, director and Gopi Sundar who put together the background music. And thank you so much Dileesh Pothan for whatever would have prompted/ inspired you to act in this movie. While you will not agree to my request but it’s good to see you more in roles like these than the mix of villainous roles you keep playing. And what a scene it was between you and Jaffer Iduki - that scene outside the police station just as he says good bye to you. Hats off to the simple st...

Shakespeare may be happy!!

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In the beginning I wondered if it was a theme similar to Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. The character of the sub inspector also makes you remember Sherlock Holmes. But soon the non-linear, “mindless” and sometimes “boring” looking screenplay made me leave that station behind till the last one hour of the movie was left when the first of the plot reveals happened. But as the movie began chugging into its destination and I saw the final shot of the burning toddy shop popularly known as Pravinkood Shapp, I began wondering if even the famous and celebrated playwright William Shakespeare who gave the world Othello could have conjured such a story and screenplay as this one. It’s amazing to see how the focus of who is the hero/ protagonist of the film changes as the movie progresses. Hats off to Soubin Shahir’s final smile scene. I so wish to describe that smile and compare it with so many other famous smiles but for the people who haven’t seen the movie yet, I will just lea...