Dhoomam movie review: This Fahadh Faasil-starrer is let down by a weak script – India Today

By Latha Srinivasan: Pawan Kumar, the director of profitable movies like Lucia and U-Flip, has directed Dhoomam, his first Malayalam movie. The film revolves round using tobacco and the way it impacts not simply the well being of individuals but additionally their lives in myriad methods.

The director begins the movie with two masked military males interrogating a Chinese language spy. Then we’re launched to Avinash (Fahadh Faasil) working in a tobacco agency owned by Sid (Roshan Mathew). Avinash is aware of methods to market a product and Sid pushes him to promote their model of cigarettes which he does very efficiently. However someday Avinash and his spouse Diya (Aparna Balamurali) get kidnapped and a ransom of Rs 1 crore is demanded from them for his or her security. Avinash realises he has 24 hours to get the cash to avoid wasting themselves and he asks Sid and Praveen for the cash.

It’s in the course of the 24-hour interval that Avainash recounts the story of his company life within the tobacco firm to his spouse Diya. Sid and his uncle Praveen (Vineeth Sreenivasan) will do something to extend the income of the corporate by rising cigarette gross sales however Avinash realises at one level that folks’s lives matter. And when he decides to stop his job, issues take a flip for the more severe for him. And now he and Diya finds themselves held hostage by an unknown particular person. Who is that this particular person and what does he need from them? Do they save themselves from dying?

Dhoomam, because the identify says, revolves round cigarettes and smoking. Director Pawan Kumar (who additionally seems in a cameo within the first half) drives dwelling the purpose of what tobacco corporations do to market the product and the way folks select to smoke although they’re conscious of its dangerous results. Sadly, the film appears to revolve solely round this subject and it will get too overbearing. The film appears extra like a public service advert with a thriller thrown in and would not supply an excessive amount of for the viewers as a thriller. There are usually not sufficient gripping scenes or intriguing moments within the movie and with a weak script and flat narration, it turns into a tiring watch after a degree.

Fahadh Faasil pulls off the function of Avinash with ease and Roshan Mathew is sweet as Sid as effectively. Fahadh and Roshan each have a really pure model of appearing and their scenes come off effectively. Nonetheless, the proficient Aparna Balamurali is just not too convincing as a spouse in misery. Pawan Kumar had good intentions with Dhoomam, however his imaginative and prescient and the viewers expectations appear to be on totally different planes.

With a wonderful forged, Dhoomam, produced by Hombale Movies, had all of the makings of a very good thriller however the weak script hindered it.

It’s 2.5 out of 5 stars for Dhoomam.

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