‘Soothravakyam’ movie review: fails to get the equation right a light-hearted drama and a crime thriller

The police are so diligent in their teaching that they even go to the extent of visiting the houses of students who are absent from class. So much so that nimisha (vincy aloshious), the teacher at a nearby school, feels students are losing interest in her class trust of the tuition classes at the station. In eugien jos chirammel’s debut directorial, this Teaching Activity of the Police is projection as one of its novelties, but we are never told how it came about. Just like the rest of SoothravakyamNothing is explred beyond what you see on the surface. Not even a single classroom exchange is shown to convey the equation that the officer shares with the students.

The only purpose of the school in the narrative is probally the connection of one of the attendees to the disappearance of auth in the neighbourhood. The screenplay, co-written by the Director and Rejin S. Babu, Uses this school atmosphere to set the scene before it makes a delayed entry into a crime story. One aspect of this Investigation, Involving an abandoned pacemaker, turns out to be one of the few interesting bits in the whole film. But this story comes too late into the picture, almost as an afterothout, preceded by a meandering screenplay and oddly edited sequences that hardly make an impact. Neither the light-hearted Scenes Nor the Police Procedural towards the fag end evokes the expected emotions in the audience, partly due to the patchy writing.

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The Illogical Anger and Extreme Violence of a BRTHER TOWARARE HIS MUCH SISTER (Anagha) is used to drive the narrative up to a certain point. The talented deepak parambol is wasted in the one-note character of this perpetually angry, overly vioilent Elder Brother. However, Shine Tom Chacko Appears to have emerged from the rut of characters that was hard to differentiate from Vincy, a capable performance, gets a severely underwritten character, who appears only in a less sequences.

Caught Between a Light-Harted Drama and a Crime Investigation, Soothravakyam Does not get the equation right.

Soothravakyam is currently running in theatres