Where is this going? I extended my hand and kept my hand on the head like the Ananthashyanam pose on the sofa. Maybe lying in a God pose could make sense of what was happening on the screen! There are times when you click a teaser and then you decide to see it later. This time we decided to watch it as we liked the actors. That was a mistake. In the movie, I noticed the following :
Dad and Daughter are making eye contact but not uttering a word
Close-up scenes of a cat trying to make sense of what is happening with Dad and Daughter in the house
Heroine and her friend are having lunch together. That reminded me of my school days with rice and fish curry
A lot of fellows having a lot of tea, some having tea in the middle of the night, in the vee hours of the morning
Two guys I guess unemployed having got a lot of time sitting by the side of a lake and playing cards
The central character had one chance to meet with the hero for maybe 30 seconds and that is it!
There were lots of flowers, roads and nature travel which included cobwebs ( I did not see a dog and cow by the way)
Every third person was smoking and the camera person loved to linger on the smoke shots.
Our heroine runs a Xerox shop which has a 386 desktop which needs to be knocked from the sideways and top to make it run.
Most of the time the shop runs out of power and she has to ride to a shop I guess in the town to get help doing the photocopy. I sort of understood that route quite well as it appeared multiple times.
A social activist comes in and goes into the scene with no idea what he is up to in life and what his role is in the movie
There was violence in the movie but we see only the damage and we do not know who the villain is.
Everything is slow and it is a drag even if they are riding a scooter or driving a Porsche Cayenne.
The hero gets killed and the heroine asks our social activist who killed him and his answer is poignant, “Maybe all of us “
So you can imagine my state, as I asked myself, “Why in the first place I decide to watch such a movie after watching an episode of Seinfeld on a Friday night?” I was asking my wife also to join me for a company to find out which way the movie is going. Finally, she took the remote from me and started showing me how you can fast forward slow cinema. We trusted our naked eye to give us some sense and we decided to watch those scenes while we fast-forwarded to our heart’s content. I was imagining those old days when I landed in a theatre to see an art movie. I am sure art movies are made with an intent only some intellectual minds will understand. At least in this case, we had the remote and we skipped most of the movie and saw in between scenes. Finally, there was no end scene and it ended abruptly with a shutter down sound and the roar of a bike. It started with a shutter up and a bike was shown in the scene.
I double-clicked to see this movie as I liked Vijay Sethupathy and Nitya Menon in the lead. However, we felt bad at the end of it not understanding any bit of it. Maybe it was way above our heads. As they say for books
My wife checked for the meaning of the title and what it meant as we wanted to make sense of it. Also, she was wondering how the so-called hero and heroine decided to do this movie. She researched for what does 19(1)(a) means and we got the answer :
Article 19(1)(a): This means that citizens can express their thoughts, opinions, and ideas freely through any means, including speech, writing, printing, visual representations, and more.
What a simple message and what a convoluted way to express it through a movie. I will hold my horses. You never know I might change my opinion after some time. So be it.
