‘Eesho’ movie review: Mediocre Jayasurya film can’t hide behind its serious subject matter

Some make issue-based movies as a result of they really feel strongly in regards to the specific topic, whereas some others accomplish that simply because it’s a helpful template that might assist conceal the mediocrity that pervades the movie. Nadirshah’s Eesho belongs to the latter class. Youngster abuse, which was additionally the difficulty which he selected for his debut movie, (the unbearable Amar Akbar Anthony) turns into the difficulty of selection in his fifth movie too.

Whereas within the former, the difficulty arrives as an afterthought — in direction of the fag finish of a movie stuffed with misogyny — in Eesho, it’s introduced fairly early on, solely to stay within the background for a lot of the remainder of the runtime. In each movies, the difficulty at hand turns into an excuse for heroic males to take pleasure in vigilantism.

The dearth of conviction and the formulaic nature of the entire setup is obvious from the primary sequence in Eesho, which begins with a music within the voice of the kid, who would quickly turn out to be a sufferer. The music appears to have been included simply because an identical music within the debut movie turned out to be an enormous hit. All the time keep on with the profitable system, as they are saying.

A lot of Eesho occurs over the course of an evening. Pillai (Jaffer Idukki), an ATM safety guard, is ready to provide his assertion in courtroom in opposition to a robust man in a baby abuse case. He’s on evening obligation on the ATM, and there’s a severe risk to his life. A stranger (Jayasurya), whose intentions aren’t clear (that’s what the scriptwriter supposed, however it’s clear as the sunshine of the day to us), joins him and chooses to spend the evening there.

After the primary crime that occurs within the prologue, during which justice is clearly not performed, one wouldn’t want even half a mind to guess the identification of the stranger. In case somebody didn’t get it, the stranger himself is made to provide a 3rd individual account of this story to the safety guard.

The remainder of the film is a painful try and preserve the ‘suspense’ alive earlier than the massive reveal. Simply as an try and mislead the viewers, the stranger’s behaviour to the safety guard retains on shifting from pleasant to intimidating, however like every little thing else within the film, it doesn’t work. A lot effort has been taken to make sure that the film doesn’t have interaction the viewers at any level.

Maybe, the toughest effort for the filmmaker should have been in extracting some shades of gray out of Jayasurya, who has been perpetually taking part in the do-gooder on display screen. The ladies, besides the barely-noticeable position of a junior advocate performed by Namitha Pramod, don’t determine wherever within the director’s scheme of issues. Males commit the crime and males mete out justice in Eesho’s worldview.

With its mediocre making and half-baked understanding and concern of a severe subject, Eesho turns into a take a look at of the viewer’s endurance.

Eesho is at the moment streaming on SonyLIV