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Haram ( A ) (2015) (Malayalam
- 2/24/2015 12:23:13 PM
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A head-scratcher movie that steadily sinks down like a rock thrown into a grubby pond, 'Haram' has none of the delight and elation that its title boasts of.
Vinod Sukumaran's post mortem of a relationship that has run into a dead end, suffers from a storyline that never actually grabs hold. Drab and dreary to the core, 'Haram' is a film that misses out on its core, and which leaves a hundred baffling questions lying around in its wake.
Little does Balakrishnan (Fahadh Faasil) realize that the helping hand that he offers to Isha (Radhika Apte), a colleague in distress, will alter him into a man in love, and later a husband. The initial euphoria over, as the couple settles down to a comfortable life in Cochin, disagreements start crawling in from nowhere. As Isha decides to get a divorce and move on, Balu realizes that falling in and out of love isn't as easy as it seems to be.
It's ironical that the 'irreconcilable differences' that are quoted as the reason for separation, remain as much a mystery to us, as they are to the two protagonists in the film. Very often do Balu and Isha admit that the real rationale behind their moving away from each other, is obscure. This search for the cause is exasperating, and after a while they give up, proclaiming themselves and each other as finally free.
It is this obscurity that makes the film a pain, and at a running length of one hundred and twenty six minutes, ey
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