Sarkeet film evaluate: A lightweight-hearted drama on ADHD, with a whole lot of untapped potential

A nonetheless from the film Sarkeet.

On the core of Thamar Okay.V.‘s sophomore movie Sarkeet is a actually sticky affair that pushes the bounds of believability. However, it’s to the credit score of the makers and the actors concerned that one goes alongside willingly with this fairly unbelievable state of affairs which propels the story ahead. Thamar, going by the 2 motion pictures he has made until now, seems to be adept at pulling off such unusual occurrences in a light-weight, participating method.

For about half of its runtime, Sarkeet strikes alongside two parallel tracks, one coping with a pair who’re struggling to handle their little one with a extreme case of Consideration-Deficit Hyperactivity Dysfunction (ADHD) and one other on the travails of a younger Malayali who has landed up in a West Asian nation in the hunt for a job.

Their little one Jeppu’s (Orhan) unpredictable, hyperactive behaviour takes its toll on Stephy and Balu (Divya Prabha and Deepak Parambol), whose relationship is examined at occasions, with previous rancour resurfacing. When their world meets unexpectedly with that of jobless Ameer (Asif Ali), it might expectedly change all their lives. Though one is just not certain whether or not ADHD will manifest within the methods as portrayed within the movie, Sarkeet is vital in that it sheds some gentle on circumstances which might be usually dismissed as simply unruly behaviour. The underlying pressure on the troubled childhood of one other character offers the drama an added heft.

Thamar debuted with 1001 Nunakal (1001 Lies) that sustained itself on the stress that builds up amid a gaggle of mates who play a recreation throughout a get-together. In that movie, one may sense the filmmaker treading a bit of too rigorously with out permitting the tough state of affairs that he conjured as much as not get out of hand. The identical threat averse method and the reluctance to dig deeper are evident in Sarkeet the place the principal gamers all get out a bit of too simply from a not really easy state of affairs. This method maybe led to the movie hitting a bit of under than it may have, with the sort of prospects supplied by the themes it tackled.

But, the movie does have just a few emotionally excessive moments that hit the precise notes, though the movie in the long run fails to go away an enduring impression as a result of fairly gentle therapy.

Sarkeet works primarily due to the performances, most notably that of younger Orhan because the hard-to-handle Jeppu. It’s a function that might simply have been portrayed in an over-the-top method, however Orhan delivers simply the required nuances for the character’s situation. Asif Ali aces it in his acquainted turf the place he’s required to painting the emotional upheavals of a struggling man caught in an odd state of affairs. Divya Prabha and Deepak Parambol additionally pitch in with notable turns.

Sarkeet is a light-hearted drama about weighty points, which finally ends up with a whole lot of untapped potential.  

Sarkeet is at present operating in cinemas.