‘Ajagajantharam’ movie review: A mindless, sensory experience that revels in its violence

When males bursting to the brim with their egos determine to combat one another, they don’t want a purpose. When these males are in a movie, they don’t want a script, nor the presence of a lady on the display screen. That will need to have been how the preliminary discussions of Tinu Pappachan’s Ajagajantharam panned out — for that’s precisely what takes place through the film’s two hour-runtime.

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The entire narrative is about across the evening of a pooram competition at a temple. The breathless tempo of the film is about proper in these early sequences, after we change between the fully-dressed up drama troupe who’re arriving slightly too late, the elephant and the group of mahouts who appear to be raring for a combat, the native goon and his gang of buddies who’re celebrating his birthday, and the happenings at a marriage occasion. One can sense the stress build up in every of those separate conditions, and all of it heading to a collision course.

There actually is not any character one can root for right here, for a median viewer is usually left questioning why all of them are eager to have a combat. However then all of them appear to be caught in a type of online game the place you may’t assist however combat one another! Lali (Antony Varghese) appears to be probably the most troublesome of the lot, along with his propensity to create a combat wherever he’s current, be it a marriage or a temple competition. The opposite gang led by Kannan (Arjun Ashokan), all of whom are jobless and are seen contemptuously by their very own members of the family, are not any much less wanting to hit again.

In his second movie after his debut with Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil, Tinu Pappachan appears to proudly carry the affect of Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Jallikattu; simply that it’s an elephant right here instead of a buffallo. The purpose is clearly to create a sensory expertise, which a temple competition offers ample scope for. Aided by Justin Varghese’s pulsating rating and Jinto George’s cinematography, the film does succeed on this particular endeavour, with the story or the script not creating any form of hindrance… as each are non-existent.

No try is made to point out us the minds of those characters or their backgrounds, which might maybe give us a touch as to why all of them behave the best way they do. Among the fights are began for no purpose in any respect, aside from for the sake of getting a tiff, and be a purpose for a vibrant explosion of fast-paced motion and sound on display screen. Nevertheless, the tasteful method by which a few of these sequences are staged usually makes us neglect all our million grouses with the movie.

But, by the top, Ajagajantharam solely leaves us with the query, “All of that, for what?” In the meantime, by the point we attain the climax, the scriptwriter (sure, there may be one) even forgets the one lady character that was created — seemingly for the sake of it.

Ajagajantharam is presently operating in theatres