Kottayam

A completely different movie from recent times that takes us on a mysterious journey through human emotions against a storyline of a thriller. While Iam not giving out much about the story, will say for a first time set of movie makers this is brilliant, the pace is gripping though a tidy slow but that goes with the mood of the movie and the twists weaved together in this thriller holds us in suspense and leads to delivering different messages and yes, it also leaves much to interpretation. But then Kottayam is a mystery yet with hidden clues to many human emotions through jealousy, anger, love, pain, betrayal and reckless wanting that destroys our relationships with each other and nature.

The cinematography with the starry night sky and foggy damp mountains from Kottayam to the northeast is brilliant. Seeing the location around Arunachal brought back memories of a bike ride I did around there and surely the team has put a lot of logistical effort as these places are almost unreachable. The final visuals are worth all that. The wonderful music score blends well into the scenes and all in all adds to the good production, script and direction of this movie. For non Malayalee's, this movie has english subtitles.