Kotthu Review…a slow drama with a few fights

Year: 2022
Genre: Politics, Friendship, Crime, Drama
Cast: Asif Ali, Roshan Mathew, Nikhila Vimal, Ranjith, Sreelakshmi, Vijilesh Karayad, Atul Ram Kumar, Sudev Nair, Sreejith Ravi, Raghunath Paleri, Jitin Puthenchery, Hakkim Shajahan, Kottayam Ramesh
Director: Sibi Malayil
Writer: Hemanth Kumar
Cinematographer: Prasanth Raveendran
Summary: The ruthless murder of a political party worker sparks an eye-for-eye effect with the opposition party as their members become killers and martyrs

Overall Rating: Nuts
Somehow we had the impression that Kotthu was going to be a thriller by looking at its poster and watching the trailer.
It turned out to be a slow drama with a few fights. The film was presented like a documentary without having a cinematic effect to it
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Delicious
—Something we greatly appreciated was that Kotthu illustrated what political party life is about: members who pledge allegiance to an ideology and are willing to do anything, even if it means killing or dying.
Shanu (Asif Ali), a party member, didn’t have a mind of his own but rather followed every order and decision taken by the party secretary (Ranjith).
Quoting Shanu: “I didn’t become a communist by learning about it from books, I became a communist even before I could read or write…It was the party who raised me”
—It was touching to see the solidarity between Shanu and his best friend Sumesh (Roshan Mathews); they wholeheartedly supported each other as well as their families through thick and thin.
No need to stress how Roshan Mathews can ACE any role 🤩 He radiated Sumesh’s beautiful spirit in a touching way, it almost felt like he was Sumesh in real life!
—Kotthu took the time to spotlight the martyrs’ families.
As the saying goes “when two elephants fight, the grass suffers” and we indeed got to see how the victims’ families endured great agony while parties were raging vengeance against each other

Bland
—The lighting was bright, way too bright for the sad atmosphere of the narrative
—Kotthu had no parallel story; the entire film revolved around Shanu and the party which became inevitably redundant.
Moreover, the movie wasn’t quite engaging; it was more like a documentary presenting the facts and acts of political party members and we just sat there as observers