![]() ![]() Is it too soon to be anointing a two-film-old filmmaker an auteur? Perhaps. I will now ask for your hand.” The similarly named Sreeja (Nimisha Sajayan, who’s marvellously real, right down to her unshaped eyebrows) will soon find herself in a similarly fraught situation, after she falls for Prasad (Suraj Venjaramoodu). They’re from a stage play, a love story between characters named Sreedevi and Devettan. The opening frames of Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (The Exhibits and the Eye Witness) are less cryptic. It isn’t until interval point that we realise what this footwear will come to signify. Maheshinte Prathikaaram (Mahesh’s Revenge), Pothan’s first film, opens with an image of rubber slippers being scrubbed thoroughly. Pay attention to the first few frames of a Dileesh Pothan movie: there’s a nutshell of the story-to-come. Read the full review on Film Companion, here:
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