Directed by: Jude Anthany Joseph
Starring: Tovino Thomas, Kunchacko Boban
Streaming on Sony LIV
It's a film based on some events centered around the floods in Kerala in 2018. The film tells us stories about how people helped each other in the time of crisis. The caption of the film says - everyone is a hero - and that is the emotional energy that the film is built upon. The protagonist happens to be one of those so many people. The film celebrates every person who selflessly helped others. The film celebrates humanity. With stories like these, it's very easy to get into the zone of a preachy space - but this film never gets there. One of the reasons is because even though the film is about how people's lives are saved - in spite of that every character is fleshed out very well by showing us very nuanced everyday conflicts they keep going through. And it just subconsciously reminds us of how life is happening to everyone and one day, suddenly everything goes for a toss. And what matters is, if we are safe and alive.
Another reason, the film never goes into a preachy or a boring biopic sort of a space is because the film carries terrific tension throughout. The tone of the film is that of a Hollywood survival thriller and yet it retains all of the nuance and subtext that usually a format like that would lose. Apart from the writing, it's amazing how the world is built with the cinematography, the production design and the VFX - it felt humongously scary at so many times. It felt like a vision perfectly executed on screen. The film got me inspired as an artist, and more than that - as a human.
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