Movie Review – Vikrithi

Average feel good

Vikrithi is another movie which falls under the category of “you-can’t-hate” Malayalam films. It’d be nice to watch these films in the midst of other films which are different. Or at least watch it with some serious gap but when you’re watching films with fury, it becomes underwhelming. Because all the recent films fall under the same category. So again, this film too ends up being a nice film but nothing apart from that.

Just like watching few other movies like ‘Driving License’, ‘Sudani from Nigeria’ etc. This too happens to be a film which works on a single incident and how two lives are connected with that incident in the end. There was nothing to look forward in the end because we know that one person is going to forgive the other. Though it could be appreciated as a film which was made without being boring, by just one incident, there isn’t much more to it apart from that. How long are we going to keep saying the same.

The film follows the story of two individuals Eldho (Suraj Venjaramoodu) and Sameer (Soubin). Eldho being the nice guy and Sameer being the mischievous one. Eldho’s family is an interesting one with both him and his wife Elsy (Surabhi Lakshmi) being mute and deaf. Sameer on the other hand is a person with reasonable money. Till the mid-point we don’t get to know how the two stories are going to be linked.

There were few clues from Sameer’s story showing how he’s so much into social media but that too doesn’t come out loud. Generally, those scenes would be made loud so that we start anticipating the twist early but here it doesn’t happen like that. It’s more organic and natural. Though Suraj’s acting steals the show, its Soubin who plays a better everyday guy. He seems to be there in every movie I watched recently and does an amazing job in whatever role he was given. Here too, in the scene before shooting a pic of Eldho, the way he mischievously smiles at the person next to him was too natural, it looks like a reaction more than action. Wish I could act as freely as he does.

If the first half was about we empathizing Eldho, the second half was about us empathizing Sameer. But it doesn’t work as much as the first half because we’ve seen the suffering of a physically challenged man. As we know who was the reason of such mischief, it wasn’t easy to forget. But with time, that feeling is overwhelmed too. We start sympathizing with Sameer and wish for a happy ending and that’s what happens.

If you had seen Malayalam movies of recent past, this is one other movie which you can tag along. Nothing unmissable but not something you’d regret watching too.