‘Meow’ movie review: This film does not hit any highs or lows

Every part on display screen has a objective within the narrative, particularly so within the case of a cat, in Meow. It’s purported to be there both for that good previous ‘save the cat’ trick (which is a story method whereby the protagonist would save the cat), thus making the viewers root for him/ her, or to ship some large life lesson to one of many characters.

In Lal Jose’s Meow, it’s the latter, though one is left questioning as to what lesson he has discovered going by how the film proceeds in direction of the climax.

Dasthakeer (Soubin Shahir), a grocery store proprietor at a small city within the United Arab Emirates, goes via a tricky section in life. His spouse Sulu (Mamta Mohandas) has left residence to stay along with her dad and mom, fed up with Dasthakeer’s anger administration points, leaving him to maintain their three youngsters. He depends on his driver Chandran (Harishree Yousuf) to maintain the affairs at residence, till the arrival of an Azerbaijani lady as a home assist, adjustments the equation.

Lal Jose groups up with screenwriter Iqbal Kuttippuram, with whom he has had some profitable collaborations, for the fourth time. Although on the centre of the movie is the discord between Dasthakeer and Sulu, additionally it is as a lot about his transformation from his younger, carefree days, when he’s proven to be a firebrand scholar politician and later, a fun-loving social gathering animal. A drunken drive and an accident simply earlier than his marriage adjustments his outlook, with an ultra-conservative Ustad (Salim Kumar) pushing him in direction of a religious life, eschewing all pleasures.

Hypocritical view

The script, at a later level, rightly condemns this hypocritical and fundamentalist view, which polices individuals for his or her decisions in apparel or music. However, on the identical time, the author repeatedly lampoons an individual from one other nation, even going to the extent of claiming that his behaviour is defined by the nation of his origin.

The best way the connection between Dasthakeer and Sulu is handled additionally makes one marvel as to the place the movie stands, for it’s clear that it’s she who’s the aggrieved social gathering right here, along with her larger research minimize brief and having to tolerate his controlling behaviour and bouts of anger.

It might appear that the movie is simply involved with someway uniting the 2. The cat is available in right here, as if to be a catalyst for his or her coming collectively. The small twist within the story, revealing the precise motive for her staying away, feels moderately contrived.

Meow is a type of movies that doesn’t hit any highs or lows, and proceeds alongside at a largely uneventful, even tempo. Rocking the boat is prevented in any respect prices, thus killing all hopes of any pleasure.

Meow is at the moment working in theatres