Night drive is an easy watch where the makers intent is very clear to play it low and not to outsmart viewers. The Malayalam filmmaker's fancy on media still continues where we have the female protagonist as a fierce & bold media anchor.
The start is very pretentious on capturing a running media house and it's mundane activities leading us to the female protagonist. From there it takes a while to establish key characters and as the name of the movie suggest the primary conflict appears while the couple casually plans for a night drive.
The mystery plot is dealt with dramatics, at times loud to make it evident of any twist that unfolds. The interval and post interval sequences were gripping enough to keep my eyes glued, the pacing was appreciable to a larger extent.
Almost all the characters were half baked except Roshan's who got a meaty mass role to enact in this film, though the climax fight could have been avoided because that exposed him as a miscast for this character who can go any extreme to save his love, there was a lack of vigour, anger in his eyes.
Anna Ben's performance was inconsistent, she looked blank when other characters were in action, post interval she had a plain face to all the proceedings, and the build up given to her character in the first half remains futile.
Indrajith shines in this film, even though his character's ideology fluctuates while conversing with a woman, probably that was a force bait given to Anna Ben's character to bring out the hypocrisy of patriarchy society we live in. Indrajith should have been given much more meatier role, his backstory could have detailed out for the actor to perform.
The writing is not consistent, it's gripping at times and at times it exposes the inability to take the mystery element to the next level, slating it as a mediocre harmless film.
The start is very pretentious on capturing a running media house and it's mundane activities leading us to the female protagonist. From there it takes a while to establish key characters and as the name of the movie suggest the primary conflict appears while the couple casually plans for a night drive.
The mystery plot is dealt with dramatics, at times loud to make it evident of any twist that unfolds. The interval and post interval sequences were gripping enough to keep my eyes glued, the pacing was appreciable to a larger extent.
Almost all the characters were half baked except Roshan's who got a meaty mass role to enact in this film, though the climax fight could have been avoided because that exposed him as a miscast for this character who can go any extreme to save his love, there was a lack of vigour, anger in his eyes.
Anna Ben's performance was inconsistent, she looked blank when other characters were in action, post interval she had a plain face to all the proceedings, and the build up given to her character in the first half remains futile.
Indrajith shines in this film, even though his character's ideology fluctuates while conversing with a woman, probably that was a force bait given to Anna Ben's character to bring out the hypocrisy of patriarchy society we live in. Indrajith should have been given much more meatier role, his backstory could have detailed out for the actor to perform.
The writing is not consistent, it's gripping at times and at times it exposes the inability to take the mystery element to the next level, slating it as a mediocre harmless film.