‘Valathu Vashathe Kallan’ movie review: Jeethu Joseph’s film gets lost in a maze of its own creation

Puzzles, crosswords and connection mazes are often associated with lazy Sunday mornings for a reason. For that is usually erstwhile a bully fig of radical find capable intelligence abstraction to indulge successful the pleasance of solving one. These surely are not meant for highly stressful situations specified arsenic the 1 successful Jeethu Joseph’s Valathu Vashathe Kallan, wherever the protagonist, moving against clip to prevention someone’s life, stops midway to lick a connection maze.

Of course, redeeming the idiosyncratic depended connected solving the maze, but the full placement of the bid of puzzles successful the communicative to make the thrills hardly feels organic. This downward spiral that the movie takes successful its last hr is unfortunate, since it had astatine its halfway a compelling communicative of a guilt-ridden antheral yet facing his reckoning. Screenwriter Dinu Thomas Eelan mightiness person chosen to instrumentality that contrived way to resoluteness the struggle owing to the wide expectations from a Jeethu Joseph film.

No abstraction for ambiguity exists successful Valathu Vashathe Kallan, arsenic acold arsenic quality traits are concerned. Early connected successful the film, Circle Inspector Antony Xavier (Biju Menon), with a show of polished evilness, dissuades a intersexual battle subsister from filing a complaint. Even though it is rather a punchy commencement to the film, successful hindsight, 1 realises that determination are nary much nuances to this quality than what is evident successful that archetypal scene. When a young pistillate (Vyshnavi Raj) goes missing from the city, the constabulary officer’s paths transverse with that of Samuel (Joju George), an ethical hacker.

Their confrontations rise the breathtaking imaginable of an intriguing warfare of wits betwixt 2 battle-worn souls. But then, they take to spell astir it utilizing a ace contrived puzzle crippled involving telephone numbers, lawsuit numbers and random coincidences. What begins arsenic a concern involving the lives of radical astir turns into a contention betwixt 2 individuals to amusement their IQ. Towards the end, an unconvincing effort is made to stitch a connection to the film. But compared to Jeethu’s previous movie Mirage, which drowned the assemblage successful 1 twist aft another, Valathu Vashathe Kallan appears a tad much believable.

Part of the movie works due to the fact that of the beingness of the 2 towering performers successful Biju Menon and Joju George, who, adjacent erstwhile they are not astatine their best, lend immoderate gravitas to the proceedings. Although Jeethu’s films are not peculiarly known for their ocular oregon method aspects, present the darker code sits good with the taxable until the screenplay spoils the game.

For implicit a decennary now, each Jeethu Joseph merchandise has led to immoderate level of anticipation, riding connected the Drishyam wave. But astir of his caller works person lone contributed successful chipping distant the sheen that his vocation got done that landmark film.

Valathu Vashathe Kallan is presently moving successful theatres