A decade is a long time for a filmmaker to stay away from the medium. It’s been so long since Shaji Kailas made his last film, and Malayalam cinema has changed without recognition. But, in his years of hibernation, it appears that Shaji Kailas has not changed. with bitterHe loudly declares that he still swears by mass entertainers.
Although the film is based on a real story, there may be many more reasons why he set his latest film in the 1990s, a period that saw the release of his most successful films and a period that went on for a string of years. Ended up setting up a template. Something in Malayalam, made by Shaji himself.
bitter
direction, Shaji Kailas
starringPrithviraj, Vivek Oberoi, Sanyukta Menon
Order: 154 minutes
Basically, bitter The story of an ego struggle that crosses all limits. Planter Kaduvakkunel Kuriachan (Prithviraj Sukumaran) locks horns with Inspector General Joseph Chandy (Vivek Oberoi) over issues related to the local parish, who snowballs something big to put the state government in trouble. The most amusing fact is that it all starts with the donation of a piano by an old lady to a church.
It would be interesting to compare the conflict of egos here in a ayyappanum koshiyum, While the film initially stands with the Dalit and later shows how the ego consumes him too, in bitterIt is a struggle between two equally powerful, privileged individuals, one dressed all black, and the other all white, even in her dress.
Everything Kuriachan does is viewed through a heroic prism, including the use of his hereditary money power to play political games, as a crude form of modern-day electoral bondage. But when it comes to the right spirit of revenge, all is well.
The only time he is shown wrong is when he publicly insults his nemesis’ mother, an act for which his wife Elsa (United Menon) questions him (only this character gets a chance to say something substantive) ). But this act is also justified in the following scene, which is written just to show why the woman deserves it.
bitter There is also the story of the government machinery being misused to settle personal accounts, and the fact that some of it has happened in real life makes it even more shocking.
The screenplay by Jinu V. Abraham does not attempt to create any surprises, rather it is based entirely on the force of collective scenes, some of which are. Shaji goes back to his tried-and-tested, adrenaline-pumping methods, but they don’t all work. However, these may still be welcomed by audiences who wish for more mass action films in Malayalam.
Shaji manages to deliver it, shrouded in more than an ounce of predictability, but for those looking for some novelty, bitter Maybe it isn’t. This is despite being a notch better than all the work that Shaji has done since 2000.
Kaduva is running in theatres.