‘Cadaver’ movie review: Amala Paul’s murder mystery won’t hold you over, but there are positives

first few sequences of dead body Sets up the surroundings and its characters well. A distraught Michael (Munishkant) is visiting a morgue, considering a case that has become complicated. Inside, it is a bit damp and dark and more importantly, smells terrible. So terrible that Michael had to take out his handkerchief and cover both his nose and his mouth. How do you work here, he grumbles to himself, as he proceeds cautiously, lest the many corpses lying there be disturbed from their peaceful sleep.

This is not a place you would like to go. This is not a place where you would want to spend even a few minutes.

But this is where we see Dr. Bhadra (Amala Paul) for the first time. There, amidst the many dead bodies and the stench of the surrounding, she is eating, almost as if she was having a mini-tiffin in a restaurant. She gives Michael some food. He is bewildered.

They are both up against a new case that is going to rob them of some peace and sleep. There is an abandoned car and a corpse in a forest far from the city. Elsewhere, Dr Salim Rahman, a prominent figure in the city, has gone missing, and this leads us to the story of a prisoner (Vetri) and his late wife, Angel.

Who are Vetri and Angel and what is their relation to the matter?

dead body Wants to be whodunit, but stress never really affects you. While the filmmaking is good in some places, especially when things are fast-moving, it is also sometimes amateurish (sample this: when a shocking revelation is made, there is thunder and characters Looks really surprised.)

An unexpected friendship unfolding in the second half develops too quickly, and the violence shown is perhaps more graphic and detailed than it should have been. this aspect down dead body, But in the end the twist salvages it.

Amala Paul The procedural moments are focused and honest but the film’s emotional scenes lack depth. One wish there was more effort. dead body Not a one-woman show, although Amala Paul (who is also its producer) gets most of the screen space; There are also some supporting characters like Harish Uthman who make an appearance. There is good music too (Ranjin Raj), though the songs don’t help much in taking the story forward. Anoop Panicker dead body There are many predictable moments, but there are a few sequences where it shows promise. If only there was more of them….

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