2023-11-25 05:41:00
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Mammootty-Jio baby film ‘Kathal’ is continuing to open in theaters with great response from the audience. Director Shruti Saranyam shares her experience of watching the movie Kathal. Shruti’s film B 18 to 32, which discussed complex issues faced by women including homosexuality, won the state award.
Shruti shared her opinion regarding the film through a social media post. In the note, Shruti Saranyam says that Mammootty’s courage to choose such a character should be bowed down.
Post by Shruti Saranyam
There are no long conversations between Mathew and Omana, and why, not even a smile. Beyond the emptiness that came between them over time, and the interactions that seemed completely innocent, it must be thought that some other deep universe kept them together. Around us there are so many turbulent rivers pretending to be free-flowing besides Mathew and Omana. Those who forget each other and stand in strange places.
How many ‘Mathews’ do we know who internalize each other’s places as mere parallel worlds, fearing the common sense that sees the concept of family only as a badge of honor and, beyond that, as a dichotomy? Moreover, how many lovers are there among us who have no right to corrections, are denied all the pleasures and are stuck in a silent marriage? ‘Will you sleep with me tonight, Matthew?’, Amana’s final question echoes the darkness of their twenty years. Jio Baby has once once more proved that his craft is unique.
It is doubtful whether there are precedents in Malayalam that dealt with identity politics so comprehensively and with such simplicity that it reached the average Malayalee viewer (Not forgetting Liji Pullappally’s ‘Sanchaaram’ and Jayan Cheriyan’s ‘Ka Bodyscapes’). There is a kind of mainstream-visual consciousness that contemporary Malayali is slowly forgetting.
A film with a core like Kathal is relevant in an era where Malayalees are unable to go to the theaters to enjoy a movie without full-length stunt sequences and long comedy scenes. Salu’s frames excel in every look. A tribute to Mammootty for the courage he showed in choosing such a character and handling it without any pretensions. Kaathal stops your breath with its ravishingly intense characters and their well-arced emotional thump.
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