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Rajesh
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English Review
- 6/1/2013 6:52:15 AM
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Shyamaprasad's 'English' opens during another autumn in London, and Sarasu (Nadia Moithu), having spent years on this foreign land with her doctor husband (Murali Menon) and two lovely kids, gets ready to celebrate Diwali inside the confines of her home. Sibin (Nivin Pauly) is enchanted by his newlywed best friend's wife Gauri (Remya Nambeesan), while in another corner of the city, Shankaran (Jayasurya), a Kathakali artist who works at a restaurant, keeps writing letters to his lady love back home. Joy (Mukesh), aided by his wife Sally (Sona Nair), looks after his mother who has taken ill, and when told by the doctor that he has to make a decisive decision for her - a life-changing one at that - is devastated
Displacement essentially remains at the core of the film, and it traces the individual life journeys that each of these men and women embark on, vehemently striving all the while to come to terms with their roots having been severed off. There are the totally lost ones and those who are yet to realize their loss, while a few others seemingly go through a process of denial, perplexed and puzzled at their own identities.
Of the four story lines that run parallel to one another, there are at least two that capture your interest. Leading the pack is Sarasu and her concerns about being away from home, and when she notices that her husband has been slowly, but surely moving away from them, she decides to unearth the truth. Her discovery is far from reassuring,
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