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Raastha (2024)
Uninteresting! Forced! Stretched! It's hard to survive this "Survival Drama" in the theater.
Survival drama is not an often explored genre in Malayalam Movie Industry. The most intriguing aspect of such a genre lies in unpredictablity of an unknown canvas, character depth, the perils of survival and character arcs. However all these falls short for Raastha.
Marketed through the trailer as an intriguing survival drama, the movie spends much of its initial runtime with unwanted situations and plotlines that does not take the story anywhere. Finally when the plot starts getting semblance of a survival drama it fails to intrigue the viewer in any way possible. The emotions don't connect, there is no tension in the plot events, the making is subpar and the score doesn't help the situation in any way. Barring some veteran actors, the performance of main characters were below average. The director shows no merit of film making quality of a previous state award winner. Out of focus and noisy frames made the movie look worse than some amateur short films.
The high number of 10/10 reviews this movie is getting is dubious and is probably part of Marketing.
Jack N Jill (2022)
Easily the worst malayalam movie experience of the decade!
This is not a movie, this does not qualify as a movie in any sense whatsoever. So I am going to refer it as 'video; in this review. If there was a 0 rating I would have rates this move 0.
It is unbearable to watch, the story is meh, the cinematography (done by one of the best cinematographers in India) is somehow worse than some homemade youtube vlogs most of the time. The acting is cringe. The special effects look like it was done by a 10 year old kid learning about green screen for the first time in their life. Everything about this 2 hour 'video' is wrong on so many levels. In this age and time when Malayalam industry is being observed at the national level as torch bearers of good stories, this is an embarassment to the whole industry.
The most jarring thing is the fact that this is directed by Santhosh Sivan, the acclaimed cinematographer and director whose previous works are among the greatest of all time. Keep aside the fact that the leading actors including Manju Warrier (A State Award winning actress) and Soubin Shahir (An actor/director who has proven his merit) are all talented people. This 'video' is the worst movie in the career of all the artists and techinicians who have worked in it.