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Malgudi Days (2016) Review
- 1/11/2016 8:46:06 PM
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The harrowing real incident on which 'Malgudi Days' is based is tremendously horrifying, but the film falls terribly short of translating this dreadfulness on to the big screen. Where it falters, are in the cinematic liberties that it liberally employs and assumes to be safe, and which on the other hand reeks of an inadvertent daftness that robs the plot of its focus.
The two kids - Milan (Vishal) and Atheena (Janaki) - occupy the centre stage in the film, and play class mates at the Malgudi school who strike up an uncharacteristic rapport , much to the amusement of their teachers and school mates. Milan, the infamous troublemaker at school finds a friend in the new addition to his class, Atheena, who has been struggling hard to come to terms with a personal loss.
There is a parallel narrative that includes Zefan (Anoop Menon), a planter by profession and an artist by passion, who has been leading a blissful life with his wife Janet (Bhama) and their only daughter, until a group of four youngsters barge into their lives one night, leaving a trail of blood and shattered lives behind.
Debutante directors Visakh, Vivek and Vinod blend these plot tracks together and load it up with plenty of digressions that assess the viewer's power of endurance. The film that runs along for one hundred and twenty four minutes, looks a bit too stretched out in the former half and forcefully squashed in during the latter.
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