Co-written and Directed by: Pa. Ranjith
Starring: Arya, Cinematography: Murali G.
Music: Santhosh Narayanan
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video.
It's an emotionally intense sports drama. It covers all the arcs we generally see in sports films. It starts off with an underdog, rags to riches kind of story where Kaliban, who is not even in consideration at the beginning, slowly comes into the limelight and steals the show. And then it gets into a space of how success can let you off track a bit, and it goes into him becoming an Arjun Reddy. An alcoholic obsessed person who starts losing things one by one. This track was beautiful in this film. This part, the downfall was the best part of the film. Later, he again redeems himself. Picks himself up and wins the match.
There are some interesting moments in the film which show us a change in character. They're not really arcs so to say. But the mother asking him to go redeem himself through boxing. The son of his guru, he who initially attacked Kaliban and tried to backstab him, him coming to save Kaliban now, the guru in the ending fight coming to encourage him. Such change in character, but in a way that it makes sense, makes and stays true to character makes for really good moments.
The production design, and the way it's set in the boxing world in the 70s is so immersive. Because most of it is shot in wides, just like Malik. The editing is also dynamic, especially in the first 30 minutes where they're introducing the setting and the world. One thing in the boxing matches I felt was, the punches were so hard and yet it took so many punches for a knockout in the movie. Whereas in reality, one such punch would land a knockout. I get it, it would've been to create more drama I guess.
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