Oru Avadhikaalam

Major Ravi's first film Oru Avadhikaalam (A Time of Vacation) is as horrible as you think it would be, forcing you to go back and confirm the basics of filmmaking. It looks everything like the past century (as it was produced before 1999 as Toofan (Typhoon)) where kids fool around in a small village, bump into a wounded dog, and then decide to keep it. The only problem is that dogs are not allowed in the village due to a strange superstition, something you only realize when Major Ravi himself makes a special appearance at the end and preaches about it with a patriotic jingle concluding the torture that has about five good jokes for you to prevent from dying. TN.