Co-written and Directed by: Nishanth Kalidindi
Narrated by: Vijay Sethupathi
Streaming on Netflix.
The film is high on style and aesthetics. It is shot in Kerala - has beautiful landscapes already. The way film is shot - it uses interesting B-roll shots of close ups of insects in the forest. In a few scenes, they use interesting sounds as background score, like the sound of crickets, etc. They have solid colors in most of the frames. It has a strong influence of Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction and Gangs of Wasseypur - the usage of black comedy, voice over, the way they capture violence and their style of banal conversations in the film. The film has a weird experience overall - some scenes are extremely interesting, and some scenes, not as much. Although in entirety, the film gives a very distinct experience. In this film, it isn't really so much about the interiors of every scene, it is about the entirety of the experience. Vijay Sethupathi's voice over is done in an interesting way, it has VS's vibe - even the way it's written. I remember the scene where they have a lot of red lights - it's such a tribute to Goodfellas. They use elements like rain, and nature in an interesting way.
I didn't enjoy the villain character as much - it felt like he was trying to do a mixture of Joker in Batman, Anton Chigurh and a Joe Pesci in terms of making the personality seem weird and scary - but it didn't work that well for me. He seemed scary, yes, but I wasn't enjoying whatever he was doing - which I thought the film was trying to go for. Nevertheless, it's at least not a boring character. It has some mystery to it. And the reason I didn't enjoy as much, could've been a language thing too.
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