EAK : Ee Adutha Kalathu Malayalam Movie Reloaded

Ok, so is Malayalam cinema regaining its past glory?. Look no further than Ee Adutha Kalathu; and mean it literally. This movie directed by Arun Kumar of Cocktail fame is a bold and genre bending attempt where story and screenplay rules. A movie sans stars and their starry tantrums EAK takes the new breed of Malayalam movies which more or less started with Traffic forward.

EAK tells the story of networked life in a city. How chance or destiny links men and women together; their lives, struggles and vicissitudes. Casting has been exemplary. Indrajith Sukumaran as Vishnu the rag picker-toy maker or Murali Gopi ,who also is the scenarist, as the petulant CEO (there is more to this character.. :P) or Tanushri Ghosh the Bengali diva as his wife , all have been spot on.Anoop Menon as city police commissioner enacts some lighter moments and again is a refreshingly different character.

The amazing thing about the movie is that it breaks free from the stereotypes that had crept into Malayalam movies of late. This one reminds one of the Padmarajan, Bharathan era where characters where bold and daring at the society; put simply, expose and reveal some of the taboo subjects- unlike the mallu way of things.

The screenplay by Murali Gopy is amazing. The son of ace thespian late Bharath Gopy, Murali has penned a story that has a raw and earthy touch to it (whatever it means: P). His journalistic background has certainly helped. The story is based on the today of cities of Kerala, be it Kochi, Calicut or Trivandrum where it has been shot and more or less placed. So the garbage dump yard on the outskirts of city, a migrant North Indian labor all are part of the story.

"Life is like a Rubik's cube, which has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations. There are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it." This is the tagline and epitomizes the quintessentially amazing EAK.

A must watch folks, hit the nearest movie house today itself. 

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