Linear narrative is the simplest way to tell a story and we have been hearing, reading, and watching the linear narrative for most of the time. But when the story consists of different strands, woven together by the hand of fate or destiny, can linear narrative do justice to the story or the characters, each of whom has a different story to tell ? I dont think so......A complex story can be told very clearly using non-linear narrative, which is just the case with Traffic. Just imagine the toil put in by the script writers (Bobby n Sanjay) to tell this story, which moves from multiple points and the director (Rajesh Pillai) who has manned the movie beautifully and thereby not letting us slip into traffic jam, at any point..............great work guys.......The innovative way of multi-speaker perspective keeps the viewers on the tenterhooks and I am not surprised that I heard so much good being said about this movie.
The story moves forward from a 4 person perspective, a traffic cop (Sreenivasan), a doctor (Kunchako Boban), an actor (Rehman), and a TV journalist (Vineeth) who is embarking on his first assignment, and it consists of the happenings in a 12-hour period, in which all the 4 characters are involved.
If you are among the few who have not watched it yet, then go ahead and watch it....it is an entirely new experience for a Malayalam movie watcher.
Tamil and Hindi versions of this movie are in the offing, I sincerely hope that they won't be tinkering with the script.
3 comments:
It was truly an awesome movie. Watched it twice thanks to a friend of mine who insisted on it. For me, Anoop Menon was the best performer in the movie. He is an artist with substance.
Bought on Friday
Watched Saturday
Reviewed Sunday
Wow, that was fast :-)
@govindraj....doctor saab...u seem to be big fan of Anoop Menon....yeah..he was very good as the commissioner..
@Movie Watchdog...thnx drummer chechi...it was more like striking when the iron s hot...;-)
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