Roy

The writer/director of this film Sunil Ibrahim is well known for his works which blended the psychological and unparalleled mindset of human beings into some extraordinary depictions. When we trace back to his earlier films like Chapters and Arikil Oraal we can find this kind of freshness and relate those films with some of the films from Hollywood and Korea. I just thought about the movie Arikil Oraal, which has some faraway resemblance to David Fincher's Seven. Anyway, this kind of narrative pattern and plot orientation is so alien to the Malayalam film industry and thus to the audience and that's why Sunil has some kind of importance. His latest one Roy also follows the same path where the protagonist has some sort of mental disorder. The film simultaneously blends with reality and dreams which confuses the audience in one way or the other. The structural enlargement of the movie is quite odd, in the sense it's going too slow and the viewers find it difficult to get into the core of the movie. When we enter into the actual premise then we feel ordinary in the way of approaching and establishing the things that we mentioned earlier. The thriller effect is not much intriguing and the accompanying background score is ineffective. The simplest kind of narration was the kinetic approach but that kind of making didn't worth it when it amalgamated with the totality of the movie.

Director Sunil Ibrahim's movies always have great ideas. But when that is develped into a screenplay, it loses its impact. There is sometimes a rush to reach to the main point he wants to communicate. So in that rush, the scenes leading upto that are written , shot poorly and when I see that I wonder why was that even shown.

When it comes to this movie, there are lame things such as a person getting into a car and driving away shown in 4 shots!! And i wondered why ? Was that to make it 2 hours duration ( for telecasting in TV , films need to be of minimum 2 hours duration). Here Again, the idea of Roy is interesting , the character is interesting. But with that idea what the writer-director does is very average and easy forgettable.

Apt movie for an OTT and will be engaging if watched with a finger on 'skip some frames forward' button.

This is a pyschological thriller movie. The main positive of the movie is suraj venjaramoods character Roy, the character design was so unique, not seen this kind of characters usually in malayalam cinema. Suraj played his character nicely. The movie is pretty slow paced, takes its time with the naration. They spend a lot of time establishing surajs character but that doesn't enhance the overall movie in a much way. The movies main plot deals with a missing of two characters and the investigation dealing with this case, but they could not effectively create a connection between the surajs character and the missing case. The climax falls very flat, fails to create any kind of impact. There were a few moments in the writing showing the confusions and the struggle suraj's character goes through due to his mental conditions, thoes were done good. Shine tom chacko gave a decent performance. Personally I feel the movie had a lot of possiblities if the climax and the total writing would have been improved a bit more. Now it's just feels like a pretty average movie but nice attempt.

Slow paced psychological thriller. Once you figure out the mental quagmire the protagonist is in, this movie will entertain you. Suits viewers who are more thrilled by uncanny evolving in the most familiar of circumstances rather than screaming ghosts and visible phantoms. Suraj Venjaranmod as usual did a fine job in his character. The climax could have been made better if it revealed all the villains involved in the crime spoken about. The vintage car in the movie and the house where Roy stays at completely captures the viewer imagination. Do not watch this movie with high expectations and then it might surprise you.

The movie started well and kept the viewers interested for a while and started to fade away. The movie also moves at a slow pace. The climax of the movie was also left incomplete with many questions unanswered. The actress did a good job and Suraj , shine was just ok. Suraj needs a bit more improvement in taking serious roles. Sometimes he is just reactionless and stares at the camera before making a gesture. The movie bgm should have also created a bit more intense atmosphere. There was dullness in the middle. When the director watches this movie, he definitely would have felt as he could have executed it better with explained climax.