‘Vishesham’ film overview: Sooraj Tom’s unadventurous method makes this drama common fare

A nonetheless from ‘Vishesham’

The Malayalam phrase Vishesham has a number of connotations, each nice and ugly, relying on the context by which it’s used. The vishesham in Sooraj Tom’s movie’s title implies the latter, indicating the disagreeable questions that newly-married {couples} face from kinfolk and random strangers.

At one level, the makers seem to make their stand clear on such questions by having Sajitha (Chinnu Chandni), one of many protagonists, burst out uncontrollably at a lady from the neighbourhood who pesters her with that query associated to youngster bearing. However in contrast to Jude Anthany Joseph’s Sara’s, which was about related societal pressures confronted by a pair, Tom’s movie doesn’t go the entire hog. Quite, it’s involved with the emotional upheavals {that a} couple which supplies in to such pressures has to bear.

Anand Madhusoodhanan, who has scripted the movie, additionally performs the protagonist Shaiju Bhakthan, an internet motivational speaker and natural farmer, who’s low on motivation in his private life. After a wedding that ended on the primary day and a number of other rejections in his try to get married a second time, he hits it off with Sajitha, a police officer, who has additionally survived a nasty divorce.

The evolution of their relationship, from the preliminary awkwardness to finishing one another’s ideas, is portrayed comparatively nicely, with the lead pair’s earnest performances making it more practical. However, the identical factor can’t be stated concerning the narrative which sags at instances resulting from some flat and aimless writing. At some junctures, it virtually looks like a public consciousness commercial movie about infertility clinics, however after some pointless iterations of the identical plot level, the movie takes one other path. In the long run, it virtually turns into a not so good commercial for such centres.

Vishesham will be thought-about for instance of filmmakers getting down to do a film based mostly on a specific subject, and paying extra consideration to the problem than the assorted features of filmmaking. Regardless of having identifiable protagonists, whose everydayness the movie underlines a number of instances, and some emotional excessive moments, the movie actually doesn’t go away an affect due to its largely predictable method. The writing additionally seems to be unadventurous in taking some additional efforts to not rock the conservative boat a lot, in contrast to what movies like Sara’s did. The one ones it dares to tackle are the individuals who intrude into the non-public lives of others, and make life hell for them with their unsolicited opinions. However, even that’s no small step.

Vishesham is at present working in theatres