Mechilpuram

27'th March 2025. I was there for Empuraan's FDFS. My first FDFS, and the most hyped Malayalam movie after 2018’s Odiyan. I was taking it all in! Musings The pal before L3 (the palpayasam). Honestly a bit disappointed, but the sentence above gives me solace. Too much exposure for KA. It’s jarring to see A10 in his all-black outfit. Too many scenes Fight scenes and Masood’s flashback stretched out a lot and could be trimmed. Some more scenes in Kerala could have been shown, around IUF. With every international location, the movie did keep me throwing off Standout scene was A10’s fight scene in the forest, with that mund madukki kuth. That Bineesh Bastin lookalike was good. Stephen’s bodyguards are standing still while he takes on the maoists. Manju chechi looks stunning. Rajuettan looks dashing with his black outfit during the shootout. Same with Manikuttan Baiju could have been given more satirical dialogues like in Lucifer. The only character worth looking at, for a laugh. Sur...

 16 March 2020. A date that will stay with me forever. A cold eerie dawn with an undertones of uncertainty. The day we made our way out of hostel, with the backdrop of the Covid Virus threat. Lockdown came a week later. It was like in the movies. Being smuggled out in the shadows of the dark. The narrative made it look like so (in a funny afterthought), but we had our flights in the morning Me and my friends were helped by the local driver, and got cooped up in a typical Omni van, on the way to Indore Airport. We were flying towards different directions. A fear within that I may never meet them again. Through the vast highway connecting Indore-Bhopal, our Rahul bhaiya sped on, the journey interspersed with some swathes of the Yellow/Orange streetlights that we are familiar with. Casting their long and eerie shadow on the deserted roads and lending an appearance that would add to my feelings of uncertainty. I could'nt fathom that we were travelling on a road that connected multiple ...