A flimsy story with massy fight sequences
Evaluate: The excellent news about Ajagajantharam is that there aren’t any girls characters. So there doesn’t come up the difficulty of critiquing them in what’s mainly a testosterone-fuelled stunt fest. Now, motion motion pictures aren’t a nasty factor. Movies, equivalent to Mad Max: Fury Highway or some Bond movies amongst many others, which pump up the adrenaline, are thought-about cult classics, as a result of there’s a gripping story and characters we love and like to hate.
In Ajagajantharam, Antony Varghese performs a troublemaking mahout, Lali, who other than anger administration points, doesn’t perceive boundaries, whether or not it’s at a marriage celebration with a very good buddy and his bride or at a temple pageant. He even makes use of his elephant to assault these preventing him on the pageant. He meets his match at stated pageant in a younger man, performed by Arjun Ashokan, who when he isn’t feeling hot-headed, is stirred on by his gang of associates. So, the primary a part of the movie is taken up by each’s separate fights – the sort the place tables are turned over and the shamiana comes down – and the second half is crammed with ‘let’s end him off’-style mega, massy stunts when these two rivals are pitted in opposition to one another.
The technical features are glorious; Jinto George’s digital camera work and Shammer Muhammed’s modifying complement one another completely, and along with Justin Varghese’s music fits the tempo of the film and positively provides it oomph. The humour with the drama troupe and the village VIP, performed by Sabumon, are good diversions, albeit a bit been there-seen that.
We are able to view the movie, written by Kichu Tellus and Vineeth Vishwam, as a mirror to what occurs at temple festivals – and even image it as a political rally or society itself – with younger males unleashing tragic violence on one another. We see sufficient experiences of those. The issue with Ajagajantharam is that the motion is solely for the sake of motion, and the lead characters are fairly despicable. There may be an try and glorify this as ‘fireplace in younger males’s viens’ and Lali, having received the struggle, rides off like a little bit of a hero, and mainly, there may be hardly the slightest sliver of a narrative holding collectively the struggle sequences. The younger actors, Antony and Arjun, are okay; the aspect actors appear so as to add extra enjoyable to the proceedings.
Director Tinu Pappachan labored as assistant director on Jallikattu and Angamaly Diaries, and he goes with that fashion of filmmaking; screaming dialogue supply and deal with artsy settings and a subversive ethos. If you wish to spend 121 minutes seeing males use their vitality for unhealthy, it’s your name.
