Kali Review

Kali Review

The new release in Mollywood this week is Kali, which released today all over. The film was a much anticipated one mainly due to two factors which you all know. First one is that it is the second film from the team of Sameer Thahir and Dulquer Salmaan after Neelakasham Pacha Kadal Chuvanna Bhoomi. The second reason for anticipation around this movie is the presence of Sai Pallavi as the female lead opposite Dulquer Salmaan. This is her second film only and the reception she got through the film Premam was just fabulous. Among all this hype, the film had hit more than 110 screens here in Kerala today.

The central characters of this film is Sidharth and Anjali played by Dulquer Salmaan and Sai Pallavi respectively. The film develops around those two characters. They are married after a college love affair. The story starts with the incident of Anjali leaving the house after picking up a quarrel with Sidharth. Sidharth has an issue with his short tempered nature. In flash back sequences it shows that he had this issue from his childhood. It affect his life later. It affected his job life as he had to try many companies to find a job. Later he got job in a bank. While things going that way, this short tempered behaviour of him lands their life in to a big problem and from there the film follows the path of a thriller

Sameer Thahir once again become successful in presenting a film which is realistic as well as entertaining with a different story. Just like his first film, Kali is also aimed more at the mindset of young generation and youth audience seems to be the primary target of the makers. Rajesh Gopinathan’s screenplay was engaging and has emotional depth in it. They had successfully created a thriller mood in the second half of the film as well. But it feels that the film ended too soon due to its much less duration. That may be feel as a drawback for some.

Performance from artists are the real plus points of this film apart from the technical side. Dulquer Salmaan once again done a splendid job and his screen presence was just amazing. We saw it in Charlie too that with screen presence he can make you fall in love with his character. The character of Sidharth was not a usual type role for him. The character has different shades and he had balanced it well with controlled acting. Sai Pallavi also done a decent job. But when compared to her performance in Premam, we may feel at places that the easiness was not there in her acting. The dubbing also seems to have not worked well for her at many areas. We may even feel that some other actress could have been done a much better job as Anjali.

Soubin Shaheer had got applause from the audience for his numbers as usual and artists like Chemban Vinod, Vinayakan, Anjali Aneesh Upasana etc done a decent work. Gopi Sundar had done a fair job with his tunes for the film and Gireesh Gangadharan’s DOP was excellent as well. His visual was really gave the desired atmosphere for the film and the mood the plot wanted was well taken care of by him. Vivek Harshan’s editing was also nice as he does his best always.

In total, Kali is a one time watchable romantic thriller. There not anything extraordinary in it. But it will not disappoint you if you does not have the burden of great expectation. If you love romantic thriller, then Kali is a decent choice for you.

Director : Sameer Thahir
Release Date : 26/03/2016
Cast : Dulquer Salmaan, Sai Pallavi, Chemban Vinod

Review : Abhilash Kiran