Dhoomam

Well, I didn't imagine a Pawan Kumar film to be dead from the word go. With a disjointed, non-linear screenplay, Dhoomam fails to deliver on two counts: as a mystery-thriller and a social-message drama. The intentions are good, but the effort clearly lacks conviction. The dialogues carry a dubbed feel and certainly contribute to making the audience feel emotionally distant from its lead characters. Aparna Balamurali's character is present as storytelling bait, and it's predictable from seven miles away.

The truth is, I can trust Pawan Kumar's skills as a storyteller. He did solid work in films such as Lifeu Ishtene, Lucia, and U-Turn. Here, the plot developments are mostly inane, and the thrills are lacking. For a thriller, it also makes the mistake of being over 140 minutes long while having no real tricks up its sleeve. The performances too are nothing to write home about. Ultimately, it ends up being an excessively long "no-smoking" ad cooked with the same level of creativity as the campaigns you see at the beginning of every Indian movie.

Good Screenplay. The movie keeps you engaged throughout. Little long though.

The movie doesn't have any connection like it was explained as in the pre release publicity. Just one scene is about how the Statuary Warning... I don't know who that actress is, but she was the only hot girl in the movie. Jut joking on the outfits used. This is a typical Malayalam type of movie, with little mismatch in Kannada dubbing at times.

Over all, you can watch this movie once. You should wait till the end of the movie for you to like it to an extent. Since this is Hombale Product, you can watch it on OTT post release, but make sure that you watch in one go.

We should encourage more such stories that promise a better future.

It could have been a better ending with some punchline and some redemption. The ending was abrupt.

Of course it succeeded in describing marketing strategies and greed of industries like tobacco that thrive on addiction of it's customers.

One thing that I noticed was that most male character were not smoking but many women were. Especially in India where the larger proportion of smokers are male, this seemed incomprehensible. The men or boy who died of cigarette smoking were not characterised, but only referred. That was another missing point in the script.

I watched it in Malayalam version in California.

We get uturn kind of vibe. Story is gripping and you will be able to connect the dots if you analyze it in the end. I will not spoil it for you guys. Everything is explained and you will understand it if you think about it a bit.. The rise of one character and downfall of another shown in the song was really good.

Background music was really good as well.

Interval bang is also interesting, unexpected Between interval and climax it gets a little slow, you have to wait patiently.

If entire movie travels at 70mph, climax travels at 100mph, so the sudden change in pace will confuse majority of the audience.

This is one of those movies you have to watch again when it comes to OTT

Enjoy.

The start is with the protagonist Faahad Fasilgiving lift to his friend (Aparna Balamurali) in an audi car in rain only to get injected with some drug by a stranger and finds himself on top of a hill with the car exploding minutes after him walking out. As unconvincing as it is, the screenplay is too far from reality as Faahad has revealed super strength like powers who carries Aparna to a godown. And the rest of story is a game of expected trivia between Faahad and Roshan Mathews(Sid) in act of survival.

Inshort the film is "Survivor series" remade in the length of a movie. Roshan Mathews gave a good performance impacting his role and the plot of the film but the rest of the Cast are merely puppets and address flaws in the script itself.