Pravinkoodu Shappu film evaluate: This Basil Joseph, Soubin Shahir flick is misleading, comical however doesn’t pack a punch

Becoming a member of this listing is director Sreeraj Sreenivasan’s movie, Pravinkoodu Shappu (Pravinkoodu toddy store), starring Basil Joseph, Soubin Shahir and Chandini Sreedharan. Set in Thrissur, the film revolves round a small toddy store and a homicide that happens there.

What’s it about?

One evening, as rain beats down relentlessly, a gaggle of males, together with the rich and goonish toddy store proprietor ‘Komban’ Babu and the toddy store employee Kannan (Soubin Shahir), sit contained in the toddy store busy taking part in playing cards as soon as the common clients go residence. Instantly, one of many males finds Babu hanging from the ceiling and mayhem ensues. Former army man Sunil takes cost of the state of affairs within the store. As they await the police to reach, the group of males begin discussing what might have occurred to Babu.

They verify that it’s homicide. Sunil declares that one in all them may very well be the perpetrator and prevents anybody from leaving the store. Police inspector Santhosh (Basil Jodeph) winds up on the toddy store along with his crew and it’s now as much as him to research and discover the assassin in 10 days. What occurs subsequent and who’s chargeable for the homicide of Sunil kinds the remainder of the story.

The director makes use of the primary half of the movie to relate the backstories of among the important characters like Babu, actual property agent Sunil and employee Kannan utilizing Santhosh and his investigative method because the catalyst. As Santhosh questions every of the boys current on that evening, the viewers discovers that Babu was a thug and his unpopularity within the village was based mostly on quite a few incidents. Sreeraj Sreenivasan offers us perception into not solely every of the boys within the toddy store, but additionally into Kannan’s spouse, Merinda (Chandini Sreedharan) and eccentric Santhosh as nicely, who appears to have a troubled previous.

Must you watch it?

The primary half of the film proceeds actually slowly and does check your endurance, however the scenes are made extra participating by the antics of the characters and their witty remarks and darkish humour. When you assume it’s going to be a simple homicide thriller, the director, utilizing a non-linear method, all of a sudden throws a curveball because the second half proceeds. As Basil Joseph digs deeper into this homicide, there are extra crimson herrings and the climax finally ends up being convoluted, because of the free threads and plenty of subplots (as an illustration, the tales of some characters had been pointless and didn’t add an excessive amount of worth; and the suspicious behaviour of a few of them to throw us off monitor). Thus, the climax felt a bit of underwhelming.

Director Sreeraj Sreenivasan, who has additionally written the story, has tried to present us a darkish comedian homicide thriller by which each character infuses humour into the story by means of dialogues and/or their behaviour. Nonetheless, the story itself and the way it’s narrated is a tad flawed, which at occasions is sort of irritating. The whodunnit is held collectively and engages you, thanks largely to the proficient Basil Joseph who, along with his sharp dialogue supply and harmless but comical expressions, elicits laughs in addition to appreciation. He effortlessly carries the movie on his shoulders. Soubin Shahir and Chandini Sreedharan are nice worth additions with their performances.

On the entire, Pravinkoodu Shappu has good performances and is a good watch, however for a whodunit, simply lacks the massive punch one expects.