The Crooked Timber of A Serial Killer
The
movie is making waves in theatres and everyone are all praise for it. Including
ordinary cinegoers and reviewers. And justly so… its pure class.. script
written by the director Jithin K. Jose in collaboration with Jishnu Sreekumar,
technical side, Faisal Ali’s camera, BGM and scores… plus, masterclass performance
from all the actors, especially, the leading duo of Mammootty and Vinayakan. This
one is definitely going to be remembered in the annals of Malayalam cinema history
as a class apart.
The
scripting had a huge challenge before it: to treat the bulk of a horrendous
case, the details of which are in the public domain, with a sharp eye on
characterization, and without losing the grip over the audience, and it was
further complicated by the logistics of movie making: to present the greatest
ever Malayalam actor as an arch-villain without celebrating evil… no small feat
that the script and direction has achieved with elan… the way the script has done
away with needless ‘back-story’ building and excuses for the demon’s moral
entropy was really fresh in Malayalam cinema, something not even masters like
M.T. didn’t dream of doing (recall ‘Uyarangalil’ (1984)
by I.V.Sasi, for instance).
But
yet, some have raised objections, and most of them are for the very wrong
reasons that the movie never warrants…
https://www.fazalrahman.com/movies/article/kalamkaval-the-crooked-timber-of-a-serial-killer
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