‘Rekha’ movie review: An uneven, half-baked female revenge drama – The Hindu

An off-the-cuff query a couple of pet canine, thrown up within the midst of a young second between a pair, and an equally informal reply, abruptly activates its head our notions about Rekha and a few of its characters. It’s an intelligently written scene, positioned someplace in the direction of the center of the film, after what gave the impression to be some innocent enjoyable in a rural setting. The response from Arjun (Unni Lalu) to Rekha (Vincy Aloshious) then makes us look again at a few of his previous actions in a brand new mild.

On the centre of Jithin Issac Thomas’s Rekha are two prolonged passages. The primary one begins relatively innocently from the back-and-forth messaging of a pair who’ve newly fallen in love, adopted by issues escalating with the man sneaking into her room. The latter section performs out as a protracted violent assault, fuelled by revenge. Each these segments start as considerably fascinating however appear to go on perpetually, and find yourself like friends who overstay the welcome. The cleverness of that canine sequence is sorely lacking in these components, which at occasions appear to be house fillers.

Rekha, the protagonist, a assured younger woman finding out at a sports activities faculty, cares two hoots about what the individuals within the rural locality consider her. From the passing conversations that we hear from the locality, we perceive that a lot of them have a penchant for prying into others’ lives. It’s not straightforward for a lady like Rekha to thrive in such an environment, but she does. Rekha can be fearful of a few of the advances from her over-adventurous boyfriend Arjun, who’s at occasions significantly irritating, somebody who can get on any sane individual’s nerves.

All the things that Isaac Thomas builds right here slowly, and a bit too patiently, is for a shock revenge act that’s in retailer. However within the latter components, what’s missing within the script is roofed up with prolonged scenes of violence, which turns into ineffective after the preliminary cathartic feeling that Rekha, and by extension the viewers, will get. One additionally wonders why she lets go of the person she was chasing after getting maintain of him at first, which might have saved us from a few of the a number of pointless scenes that observe.

Rekha works partly as a lady’s fightback in opposition to an act of injustice however finally ends up as an inconsistently written, half-baked try.

Rekha is at the moment streaming on Netflix

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