Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum
Directed by: Dileesh Pothan
Starring: Suraj Vasudevan, Fahadh Faasil
Written by: Sajeev Pazhoor
National Award for Best Feature in Malayalam, Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Fahadh Faasil.
Dileesh Pothan is more interested in fleshing out characters, creating the world around the characters than the plot. He takes an incident and he focuses on how the characters and the people around them react to this incident. I think even if he makes a gangster film, he'd probably take one murder among the several murders that we see in gangster films and explore the aftermaths of that one murder for all the parties involved and effected by it. It's interesting to see a slice of life approach, with the backdrop of a crime incident. There is a scene where the husband tells his wife that she should've been careful, he does victim blaming and she looks pissed off. They address she being pissed off in the next scene, but when we understand what she's thinking and why she's pissed off immediately, then that's immersive storytelling. This was done well in Zoya Akhtar's Dil Dhadakne Do, if you have the world view of the film maker, you'll straight away get why the young people are pissed off in the film and if you don't share the world view, you won't get what the characters are pissed off at and you won't get the film most of the times.
The editing, sound design and the cinematography don't call attention to themselves but they definitely show the beautiful landscapes of Kerala just like Ayyapanum Koshiyum does. Fahadh Faasil plays a thief who doesn't lose hope till the end and tries to escape at every given chance. This trait, reminded me of Walter White who will think of every possibility at any given trouble he faces. These men are bad, but we can learn and get inspired by this trait of them about how they won't give up and lose hope till the end.
Starring: Suraj Vasudevan, Fahadh Faasil
Written by: Sajeev Pazhoor
National Award for Best Feature in Malayalam, Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Fahadh Faasil.
Dileesh Pothan is more interested in fleshing out characters, creating the world around the characters than the plot. He takes an incident and he focuses on how the characters and the people around them react to this incident. I think even if he makes a gangster film, he'd probably take one murder among the several murders that we see in gangster films and explore the aftermaths of that one murder for all the parties involved and effected by it. It's interesting to see a slice of life approach, with the backdrop of a crime incident. There is a scene where the husband tells his wife that she should've been careful, he does victim blaming and she looks pissed off. They address she being pissed off in the next scene, but when we understand what she's thinking and why she's pissed off immediately, then that's immersive storytelling. This was done well in Zoya Akhtar's Dil Dhadakne Do, if you have the world view of the film maker, you'll straight away get why the young people are pissed off in the film and if you don't share the world view, you won't get what the characters are pissed off at and you won't get the film most of the times.
The editing, sound design and the cinematography don't call attention to themselves but they definitely show the beautiful landscapes of Kerala just like Ayyapanum Koshiyum does. Fahadh Faasil plays a thief who doesn't lose hope till the end and tries to escape at every given chance. This trait, reminded me of Walter White who will think of every possibility at any given trouble he faces. These men are bad, but we can learn and get inspired by this trait of them about how they won't give up and lose hope till the end.
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