Film Evaluation | Kumari: An unusual movie about supernatural powers

Aishwarya Lekshmi-starrer ‘Kumari’ is a fantasy movie laced with a component of horror and loaded with motifs deep-rooted in Kerala’s non secular psyche. It is a trendy display model of an historic story that has sorcery and supernatural powers at its core.

The movie is about in an undated interval the place feudalism thrives.

The story unfolds in a landlord’s ancestral home – in its darkish corridors, dim-lit rooms and spooky attic. And the motion at occasions shifts to the depths of a forest close by. No, there aren’t any ghosts within the movie. As an alternative, there’s a ‘chathan’ and one other blood-thirsty deity.

Between them is Kumari, a village lady who was married off to the tharavad (ancestral residence), and her multi-shaded husband Dhruvan. Kumari not solely faces a sequence of extraordinary incidents in the home but in addition turns into part of them. The setting is intriguing for anybody with a style for fantasy, mythology and the supernatural.

The plot, nonetheless, is caught in a rulebook of the style, if there may be one. The characters’ stress does not convey to the viewers. The narrative flows in a moderately predictable method, leaving little moments of thrill and concern.

Aishwarya offers a composed efficiency. Shine Tom Chacko tries his greatest to present life to Dhruvan, the introvert-turned-power-hungry feudalist. His physique language conveys the transition clearly however the character suffers from his dialogue supply at locations.