‘Jailer’ Malayalam movie review: Dhyan Sreenivasan’s bleak film hardly gets anything right – The Hindu

When a film makes information for all of the fallacious causes earlier than its launch, it’s a clear warning signal. As a rule, it’s a trace for lack of content material that would make information after the discharge. Within the case of Sakkir Madathil’s Jailer, the controversy was over its title being precisely identical as Rajinikanth’s blockbuster launched final week. The Malayalam film might definitely lay declare to the title, for your entire film is a few jailer and his experiments with a set of hardcore criminals.

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Younger jailer Shantaram (Dhyan Sreenivasan) will get a brainwave about reforming criminals and makes a grand suggestion to the federal government. He decides to take alongside a set of hardcore criminals to an inside village and stay with them, as a part of an experimental programme to reform them. This set of 5 embody folks convicted for violent crimes, together with homicide of kids. For his experiment to succeed, they should resign all types of violence, even when confronted with life-threatening assaults. It’s a situation which results in unintentionally hilarious scenes, regardless of the morbid tone that pervades the movie.

One of many mysteries of the movie is its interval setting, someplace within the mid-Nineteen Fifties, as a result of it might not have made a lot of a distinction even when the story was set post-millennium. The one attainable rationalization is probably the wanted presence of a feudal lord, who controls the commerce within the village market, the place the jailer (and the criminals on the trail to reformation) goes to promote the farm produce. Shantaram’s concept of correcting them and re-integrating them again into the group includes largely making them do back-breaking work within the farm.

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Each time the criminals present their previous tendencies, he sulks and extends their work hour by yet one more hour. The criminals too take pleasure in some aggressive sulking when their demand for his or her relations additionally to be dropped at the village is denied. Shantaram is obsessive about the success of his concept that he goes to nice lengths for this objective, together with getting right into a battle with a bull, which he loses gloriously. Divya Pillai’s character, talking a extremely distorted model of Tamil and having hardly something to do within the story, virtually looks like a revenge towards the Tamil movie Jailer.

As if to boost the awful proceedings, 4 songs too pop up out of nowhere, additional dragging down the narrative which by no means as soon as within the 120 minutes of period reveals indicators of life. Jailer appears to have been made with the intention of by no means giving the viewers something to cheer for… it does reach that endeavour.

Jailer is presently working in theatres

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