AKAM
REVIEW by
TheStarSMS
Consider
yourself in this story
You are an energetic beautiful young man who
have a good job, good earning, and a beautiful girl to hangout. You have
everything right now for a beautiful life. But suddenly something happens to
your life, a life turning event, ‘an Accident’, a car accident that changed
your life.
On the first thought you will thank god for
saving your life from it, but later you realize that you have lost something that
depends your life itself.
You start
to tolerate with your new environment, new life but you couldn’t accept the
most disturbing vacant space, ’she’, your ‘love’, you can’t live without her,
but she doesn’t want to live with a person whose half face is irritable
accidental mark.
Like
petals falling from a beautiful flower, everything starts falling apart from you
one by one.Only thing that left behind is you and your space,’ Loneliness
becomes your best friend .You struggle
to withstand, you start to see the other paradigms of life, a colorless life.
But
one day you met a young lady from nowhere, who is more beautiful than your ex-girlfriend,
and she doesn’t bothered about your half face mark or any physical loss but only
bothered about your character, your love and more importantly ‘you’. You start
loving her and you start loving to spend time with her and think your life
reached back to normal, everything was ok.
But
sudden changes cannot be acceptable to a normal human being, because you are
different from other less capable person. Now you start questioning yourself
and even you start to realize that you didn’t even know whereabouts of this ‘new
girlfriend’ and it is unbelievable that she is with you all the time without
knowing much each other. You started to search for her whereabouts and you found
some shocking conclusion that, she is not the kind of lady you expected and
more over she isn't even a lady but only a beautiful blood sucking “ YAKSHI
” .
What
will you do at this stage? This is the similar stage when ‘Sreeni’ realize
about ‘Ragini’.
The movie ’AKAM’ will give you an answer.
About the movie, 'AKAM' is such a movie which will haunt you even
after you finish watching the film. The movie begins at a seashore where two
legs following the footprints of someone, who after following two or three
steps, footprints starts to diminish and diminish then it’s gone!. It was
actually Sreeni who is following footprints of Ragini but we realize that it is
beginning of his search to find his ‘ YAKSHI ’. And the fact is he founds her.
Anyway the movie want to share you many things
like, about relations, spaces, reality, fantasy, myths, life, death and many
more. Every scenes have got something
for you, something that disturbing you, which leads to mysteries, mysteries
leads to searching, searching ends in silence, each silence in the scenes helps
to reach you a place where you doesn’t want to exist. While watching this movie you will have
only one mind, a Decipher mind, nothing less.
Location of film, Trivandrum city has a great
role in this film, city help us to portrait sreeni’s mind-sets in the film.
Also the indoor scenes whether it is flats or office, it got enough wall
mirrors inside which always helps us to see the reflections of everyone’s life,
inside a life.
It was a well-executed screenplay from a
adaption of a Novel
'AKAM’ is written & Directed by Shalini Usha
Nair, she has taken this film in to an International standard. There is
a theater collapse scene, which really a shaken scene is taken without any
graphics but through reality approach fully through her talent, this scene is
enough to know what she is capable of.
It is happy to see good cinematography works
from a foreigner, Christopher John Smith, in Malayalam cinema. Arunima
Shankar’s editing is well suited .These three people brilliantly
executed to put this movie in to screens with lots of life inside in it. Music
is well tuned to drag us in to the mood.
On the acting side Fahadh Fazil
is the one who won the medal, it was an intelligent work from him, he is the
force that attracts us to the screen. Anumol’s (yakshi) acting executed
well from paper to the screen. Her long hair, beautiful eyes and whole makeup
& costumes contributed to her performance. Special set of warm
yellow-whitish lighting was given to her (and scenes with others also), gives a
strong presence in scenes. Sync sound Audio recording boost the scenes with
adequate balance of silence and sounds. Every
others both in technical and acting side supported well to took this movie, where
it now belongs.
And
Thanks to Hanzo films to bring this film to us.
’AKAM’ is a movie that we can proud for a Malayalam
cinema lover. And it is one of the BEST adapted screenplay (or remake) in
Malayalam cinema. ’AKAM’ needs some recognition, so watch it and share
your views.
My Rating: 7.75/10