In fact, it’s a topic that definitely needs to be explored more. They’re just guessing like you and I are supposed to.ĭon’t get me wrong, I have nothing against a character’s behaviour being attributed to mental illness. This is excluding what his terrified hostages tell each other, mind you. Not even a throwaway line about what made him go berserk. Because we’re not offered an explanation. The official line from the Wikipedia plot summary reads as “suffering from some mental illness and behavioural issues”, and I’ll take their word for it.
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Instead, the characters in the movie and the audience watching it realize this man is actually psychotic. So after an hour and a half of solid character work, why does Shammi hover in the corner of the room for over twenty minutes, leaving his wife and sister in law baffled? Was it just a stress release technique of chauvinistic pigs that they were unaware of? No. There is no character sitting in a tea stall and delivering a lengthy monologue about how terrible Shammi is as the barber proudly rides by on his bike. Syam Pushkaran’s script doesn’t need to fall back on simplistic exposition at the beginning of the movie. He is passive-aggressive, nosy and domineering towards his wife, yet wonders out loud why she should ever feel uncomfortable around him.Īll of this is fleshed out brilliantly throughout the movie. He’s unreasonably proud of his job as a barber and disparaging of anyone who’s at a slightly lower station in life. He’s a comically evil, misogynistic, patriarchal, domineering, insecure, duplicitous young man. Here’s what I thought, and I have a strong feeling many of you might concur. If you were watching the movie for the first time and I paused it two minutes before Shammi rushed to the corner of the room, what would you say was wrong with him? And Fahadh Faasil being who he is, Shammi is convincingly portrayed.
Everything he does and says are examples of a particular type of behaviour. The kind of person who can make his wife flinch at the merest suggestion. He’s the kind of guy who the neighbourhood kids are afraid of. The movie has camera handled by Shyju Khalid, music by Sushin Shyam and edits by Saiju Sreedharan.Shammi is the new brother-in-law of Baby, and from the very beginning of the movie, it’s clear that he’s the antagonist of the story. Soubin, Shane Nigam, Sreenath Bhasi and Mathew Thomas play brothers in the movie while Fahadh Faasil will be seen as the villain. The movie, according to the makers, is a modern family drama set in Kumbalangi, a suburb in the city of Kochi. They are producing it jointly with Fahadh Faasil’s banner Fahadh Faasil and Friends. Syam Pushkaran along with Dileesh Pothan have launched a new production house named Working Class Hero and ‘Kumbalangi Nights’ is their maiden venture. While their roles were different in the earlier two films, ‘Kumbalangi Nights’ has them as producers. The combo’s last two outings – ‘Maheshinte Prathikaram’ and ‘Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum’ were National award winning films. National award winner Syam Pushkaran has scripted the movie.Įxpectations are high for ‘Kumbalangi Nights’ considering the reunion of the trio of Fahadh Faasil, Dileesh Pothan and Syam Pushkaran. Directed by debutant Madhu C Narayanan, the movie stars Shane Nigam, Soubin Shahir, Sreenath Bhasi, newcomer Mathew Thomas and Fahadh Faasil in major roles. Putting an end to the long wait, the makers have announced that the movie will be hitting screens on February 7. Kumbalangi Nights is one movie almost all Malayali cinephiles are eagerly looking forward to.