Saturday 11 April 2020

Trance Analysis

Trance

Directed and Produced by: Anwar Rasheed
Starring: Fahadh Faasil
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video

This is a film about religious dogmatism and the Trance it can take you in. Viju Prasad struggles with livelihood and his younger brother commits suicide because of his mental illness. Viju Prasad shifts to Mumbai and here, he gets offered a job by a corporate company where he can earn as much as he can and this job is that of a Christian pastor who'll give speeches to huge number of people, brainwash them and make money out it. Viju Prasad now becomes Pastor Joshua Carlton and he faces all the allegations and makes sure that his business keeps going on. Now, the arc of this movie is interesting, we have a hero who is on a morally grey path and he has troubles and hurdles in that path and he keeps crossing them and moves on. But by the ending of the film, he realizes that the path he has chosen in wrong and he takes a more righteous stand. But in this film, we expect that something like this would happen unless in an already grey genre of film like maybe a gangster movie.

Fahadh Faasil is an actor whose work needs to be studied by aspiring actors, the way he performs and the way he brings out a lot of things from within is wonderful. He is so convincing in even unrealistic scenes like the scene where he himself starts believing that he is god and he can change people and their lives. Write anything on paper, of course make it consistent with the character and the story and Fahadh will magically make it convincing with his performance. I'd love to see him like a serial killer because he brings out the truth in every character he plays and I'm curious to see how he finds the truth of a serial killer. The Malayalam film fraternity is so inspiring, people act, write and help in their peers' films. National Award Winner for Best Screenplay Dileesh Pothan is acting in this film in a supporting role. Amar Neerad, a filmmaker now worked as a cinematographer for this film. The sheer conviction of all these amazing artists for a project, when they all come together it brings in lot of positivity.

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