Haram

So I was really drunk and my wife wanted to watch Haram (not to be confused with the sinister Arabic word Haraam. Haram, a Malayalam word means delight). We've had the DVD for a while now. I watched around 15 minutes of it. There was this awful heavy metal (?) or hard rock song playing at the beginning of the film with these young Malayali kids acting tough and angry on stage. And S.P.Sreekumar the comedian was chasing somebody on the road. Then I fell asleep. My wife woke me up around 90 minutes into the film and told me she was sleepy. So we turned off the movie.

The next day, we played the DVD again and this time I was not drunk and had to endure the rest of the film - thankfully, only 30 minutes remained of it. Fahad Fazil plays a frustrated communist who works at a call center and drives around in a Renault Duster :). Radhika Apte is his wife. Fahadh has a "discussion" about communism at a pub/nightclub where the band Thykoodam Bridge is playing a terrible song called "Theevandi". Fahadh and the other man gets into a fight and this somehow destroys his relationship with his wife. Contrived is too soft a word for the way the scenes were conceived.

S.P.Sreekumar's story is interwoven with the main plot. I am not sure what it had to do with the main plot. I asked my wife and she could not give me a convincing answer.

The heavy metal band at the beginning of the film keeps making an appearance throughout. Somewhat like that band in "Life in a Metro" (2007). I am not sure why this film was made or why it received funding. Or why a sincere and talented actor like Fahadh Fazil agreed to be part of it.