Spoilers ahead…
This is an elegantly staged film, filled with intriguing questions and unsatisfying answers. There are some nice writing touches, but…
Two women come to a small town to set up a beauty parlour – but this being a Bobby-Sanjay story, you know there is more to them than meets the eye. Rajisha Vijayan and Priya Varrier play Annie and Shilpa. Let’s look at the way they are introduced. The camera is inside an empty shop (that is the place they want to set up the beauty parlour). And as the shutter is slowly raised and light floods in, we see these two women on the other side: feet-first, then slowly upwards till we finally see their faces. Two things are interesting here. One, this is the sort of “reveal” that is reserved for mass-heroes, and it’s fun to see the technique applied to female actors. And two, the slowness with which these two characters are introduced, visually, hints at the fact that we are going to get to know them very slowly. With Annie and Shilpa, what we see is not what we get.
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