Aanum Pennum, On Amazon Prime Video, Tells The One Timeless Story Of Man And Woman In Three Organically-Linked Chapters

Administrators: Jay Ok (Savithri), Venu (Rachiyamma), Aashiq Abu (Rani)
Writers: Santhosh Echikkanam (Savithri), Venu (Rachiyamma), Unni R (Rani)
Solid: Parvathy Thiruvothu, Asif Ali, Joju George, Samyuktha Menon, Roshan Mathew, Darshana Rajendran, Indrajith Sukumaran

Spoilers forward…

Because the titles roll in Aanum Pennum, a ballad begins with a name asking Time itself to inform the story of how a person and a lady go their separate methods. And every chapter of the anthology — set in three totally different time intervals — exhibits the dynamics of a relationship between a person and a lady. Savithri, the primary chapter is ready in not too long ago unbiased India and the ultimate chapter, Rani, occurs right this moment. The person, the lady, their milieu and the form their relationship takes varies dramatically throughout the chapters. So, on the face of it, it’s an anthology about three totally different ‘relationships’ from three totally different time intervals.

However the man and lady in every chapter of Aanum Pennum are additionally primarily the identical folks. Acceptable for a movie that calls on Time itself to relate the story, massive elements of Aanum Pennum really feel timeless. What holds every chapter and the movie collectively is the focussed exploration of probably the most elementary, timeless elements of what constitutes and shapes a man-woman relationship. Aanum Pennum is an anthology with one wealthy concept refracted into three closely-linked chapters.

By specializing in the important — virtually microscopic — dynamics of three heterosexual relationships, Aanum Pennum leaves you with a macroscopic aftertaste of the politics implicit in them. The archetypal man and lady are merely ‘reborn’ at totally different occasions and the basics of their interplay are largely unchanged. For the lads, love is one thing that must be handed by way of a social censor for approval, whereas intercourse is a simple, surreptitious escape from it’s guidelines. In all three chapters, the person, laden with apparent or implicit social mores, is unable to rise as much as the depth — and even the simplicity — of the lady’s want.

The sense of timelessness that unifies three numerous tales is achieved within the first chapter, Savithri, by build up a rhythm with the visuals, sounds, background rating and dialogues come collectively. Savithri (Samyutha Menon) is a communist on the run who takes refuge as a maid in a landowner’s home. There’s an outstanding and seemingly nondescript sequence: the son of the grasp of the family runs out as a tune begins; the mridangam and the sound of a gardener husking a coconut with a sickle create a refined rhythm on which visible actions and on a regular basis dialogues of the ladies round are superimposed. There’s an analogous sense of pure rhythm as Savithri is launched to us. However that is absent after we shift to the lecherous Raghava Pilla (Joju George). You get a way that it’s the lads who trigger issues to fall out of sync with nature’s rhythms.

The movie makes use of the connection between Raghava Pilla and an elephant to arrange some extent of comparability with the opposite chapters: he compares Savithri to an elephant that must be tamed. When his paralyzed father appears to be like on Savithri for the primary time, you see a rifle on a wall behind her (it makes an excellent comeback later). He’s a hunter who sees girls he wishes as prey. Within the second chapter, Rachiyamma, Kuttikrishnan (Asif Ali) is terrified of elephants and it’s Rachiyamma (Parvathy Thiruvottu) who protects him from one. Within the last chapter, Rani, the person (who is definitely only a faculty child right here) is even scared to be within the midst of nature; he’s reluctant to hug his girlfriend (Darshana Rajendran) in the course of the woods far-off from dwelling as a result of he’s afraid of his of us discovering out (whereas on the identical time asserting that his love for her is limitless). 

As the person regularly adjustments by way of the chapters — from conquering nature to being afraid of it — he seems to even be rising farther aside from the lady. The ladies seem comparatively changeless, much less inclined to bend to social strictures however pressured to take action. That is particularly obvious in the best way Parvathy Thiruvothu performs Rachiyamma. She transports herself to a psychologically summary area by way of her cackling laughter. Neither the taunting of males or society’s guidelines seem to trouble her. She’s somebody who has transcended revolt with indifference. There are elements the place she appears virtually motherly with Kuttikrishnan, however more often than not, she seems to exist on one other dimension guided solely by the voices of gods she is religious to.

The sense of inadequacy that the person brings to the relationships is apparent in Rachiyamma: Kuttikrishnan feels too small to merely have intercourse with Rachiyamma as he is aware of that his mom wouldn’t approve of a wedding. This forces Rachiyamma to attend unrequitedly for him as he settles right into a married life. The girl who’s a pure badass when she confronts a person spreading gossip about her is decreased to being a passive spectator in her personal life as a result of Kuttikrishnan might want however not commit. For him, their last scene collectively is actually a trial over a hearth burning on a fireplace in Rachiyamma’s home.

However in Rani, the lady provides up lastly, unwilling to even merely have interaction with the person briefly (Savithri) or to attend for him (Rachiyamma). She and her boyfriend are bare after intercourse within the woods once they discover that their garments have been stolen. Because the boy breaks down completely, she walks away from the scene disgusted unmindful of the truth that she’s unclothed, needing to only get away from the person who can’t make up his thoughts about what he wants from her: intercourse or love.

Vasudevan (Vineeth Vishwam) in Savithri is a person who can’t even think about forsaking patriarchal concepts that implicitly profit him. It prevents him from reciprocating Savithri’s love, simply as he’s a superficial admirer of communism with out the intent of following by way of. Kuttikrishan in Rachiyamma has his mom to reply to; she represents, in a nutshell, all of the social stress on him. The person in Rani is completely alone along with his girlfriend and but, he hears echoes of his household and society. Aanum Pennum means that although occasions may change, the best way males have approached love continues to stay unfair to girls, particularly when it additionally means a lack of social standing for the person.