Towards the bitter half of the plot, the goings-on gets hard to control. I missed Tomas Tovino’s star quality here. I am not that happy with Asif Ali’s performance. Look out for the floor-burning combat between Asif Ali and Nimisha Sajayan where fists fly, furniture is hured….Sajayan is a force of Nature when pushed to the corner. Some of Adhi Shankar’s attempts to escape his kidnappers are heart-in-the-mouth. The way Shani and Sharath orchestrate an online masquerade to cover up the kidnapping is proof that the best films are being made in Kerala and that a Malayalam film need not be somber in tone or logical by the definition of naturalistic cinema to be considered great.
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The kidnapping of a movie star is headline-making news. There is also the faithful secretary of the star who gets the brunt of his lord and master’s temper tantrums. The drinking, partying, extra-marital affair and the hedonistic lifestyle are all examined with a dash of irony. The plot makes a mordacious statement on how film stars lead their lives. However, it is not all an outrageously enjoyable suspense ride. It is a brazenly fearlessly pulpy idea carried to extremes of implausibility, challenging the very notion of how far fiction can go in pursuit of a pulpy nirvana. Innale Vare works so well for its complete surrender to the pulp tone. Some critics have slammed the film for being preposterously plot. The narrative logistics are buttressed by some imaginative direction and performers who are in this to execute a plan as outrageous on paper as it is on screen. It is an outrageously implausible premise. The writing is so clenched one can’t afford a coffee break unless you want to live with the thought that you have missed something vital in the cat-and-mouse game between a fading superstar Adhi Shankar (Asif Ali) and a wily desperate couple Sharath and Shani ( Anthony Varghese, Nimisha Sajayan) who decide to make some seriously quick money out of Adhi by kidnapping him.
But I have to confess that what attracted me to Innale Vare was neither Joy nor Ali but writers Bobby-Sanjay who I am convinced are the best screenwriters in Indian cinema right now.įiercely original, and passionately devoted to telling stories that grip the audience from the word go, Bobby-Sanjay’s name in the credits signifies something special.īobby-Sanjay don’t disappoint with their writing in Innale Vare which is probably the best suspense thriller I’ve seen in recent years. Since his directorial debut in 2011, Jis Joy has done five films, out of which four starred Asif Ali. While most often a collective crisis brings out the compassionate side of the human personality, it can also unleash the beast in the individual, as we get to see in Jis Joy’s Malayalam whammy Innale Vare. It is interesting to see how different sections of people react to the crisis-on-hand in films.
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