I watched Kilometers and Kilometers on Netflix in orig. Malayalam w/Eng. subs.
K&K is a feel good, light hearted amusing film which could have been very much better. No Spoilers as its a new release.
It is a real pity that substandard dialogues greatly lowered the tenor of this otherwise entertaining movie. In particular the hyper pidgin English spoken by Josemon (Tovino) with Cathy. It is unbelievable that a person of Josemon's age from the most literate state of Kerala, would not be able to speak at least somewhat better English than the horrible pidgin depicted. Not to mention the irritatingly repetitious "Nothing official about it" :-((( Tovino could not carry the pidgin dialogues off and it really isn't his fault but that of the dialogue writer.
Likewise the puerile arguments comparing culture was more cheap and unwarranted than engaging. On the one hand the film shows the 'cultural' reality of excessive wanton boozing in Kerala in graphic glory and on the other, Josemon disparages US culture, come on ...... !!!! It was more like cheap Bollywood dialogue and most unlike the finely scripted genuine satirical digs that one has come to expect in good Malayalam movies.
Other than that, the sets were realistic and the cinematography good even if the plot was far fetched, albeit interesting enough. The character I liked most was the humorous Veer Bhai, effectively played by Sidhartha Siva. India Jarvis as the American Cathy was stilted. Tovino was mostly okay. Joju George and the rest were good but did not have particularly significant roles. It was interesting to see the 'Bullet' temple and the Bottle temple. Not sure if they are the real Bullet Baba and Whisky Bottle temples of Rajasthan or just sets. Perhaps just sets, for surely the orange brigade's so called sensibilities would have been speedily 'offended' with a real depiction, in today's India :-(((
Veer Bhai and Josemon's father's Bullet were surely the real stars of the show.
The length of the film could have been cut by at least 30mn.
Overall, watchable, pleasing and feel good . Could easily have been better. I'd have rated this 8-9 if not for the aforementioned flaws.
K&K is a feel good, light hearted amusing film which could have been very much better. No Spoilers as its a new release.
It is a real pity that substandard dialogues greatly lowered the tenor of this otherwise entertaining movie. In particular the hyper pidgin English spoken by Josemon (Tovino) with Cathy. It is unbelievable that a person of Josemon's age from the most literate state of Kerala, would not be able to speak at least somewhat better English than the horrible pidgin depicted. Not to mention the irritatingly repetitious "Nothing official about it" :-((( Tovino could not carry the pidgin dialogues off and it really isn't his fault but that of the dialogue writer.
Likewise the puerile arguments comparing culture was more cheap and unwarranted than engaging. On the one hand the film shows the 'cultural' reality of excessive wanton boozing in Kerala in graphic glory and on the other, Josemon disparages US culture, come on ...... !!!! It was more like cheap Bollywood dialogue and most unlike the finely scripted genuine satirical digs that one has come to expect in good Malayalam movies.
Other than that, the sets were realistic and the cinematography good even if the plot was far fetched, albeit interesting enough. The character I liked most was the humorous Veer Bhai, effectively played by Sidhartha Siva. India Jarvis as the American Cathy was stilted. Tovino was mostly okay. Joju George and the rest were good but did not have particularly significant roles. It was interesting to see the 'Bullet' temple and the Bottle temple. Not sure if they are the real Bullet Baba and Whisky Bottle temples of Rajasthan or just sets. Perhaps just sets, for surely the orange brigade's so called sensibilities would have been speedily 'offended' with a real depiction, in today's India :-(((
Veer Bhai and Josemon's father's Bullet were surely the real stars of the show.
The length of the film could have been cut by at least 30mn.
Overall, watchable, pleasing and feel good . Could easily have been better. I'd have rated this 8-9 if not for the aforementioned flaws.