Dhoomam

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.

The first half of the film was very very engaging and it was gripping to the core with a parallel kinda story-telling going back&forth, the interval block of the film was very well made and the film should've probably ended up there itself because the 2nd half was just about knowing the backstory of the vengeance and it was nothing special at all.

The problem of the film lies in its sloppy & disengaging screenplay in the 2nd part and the enemy of this film is its BGM since the bgm maker has done a poor job of not scoring any bgm at all and most of the sloppy scenes felt sloppy just because they lacked the bgm, there was literally no bgm at all when it was absolutely required.

This is a unique film where if you just watch the first half and walk out, you'll certainly feel like having watched a full movie and if you sit & watch the 2nd half, you'll regret not doing what I said earlier.

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.

So much metal is one gun... OMG such a treat to watch. Special hats off to the AC/DC screenplay and such a crisp editing and a note to Pawan's direction.. but yet the winner is just one my dear FAHADH ... THE WAY THIS GUY HAS CARRIED THIS CHARACTER.. A big loud applause.. yes it lacks the masala and the ending xould have been a bit more emotional and dramatic.. u know its part of cinema making... but on all other grounds of cinematics its a pure treat to watch... keeps you glued... Aparna and Roshan have done well... i think fahadh is promoting vineeth yet again well done performance... overall a great watch... brilliant performances.. adressing a social issue ... last a big hi to the story telling technique... Awesome Mausam... good job guys.

A feature-length no-smoking PSA. The amount of preachiness and the way everything is connected to the central theme feels so over the top and yet by the end, it feels like the least of all the problems with the film. The visual grammar of the movie is still a decade ago when South Indian films were successfully experimenting with new genres and little technical missteps were forgiven. I haven't seen his previous films but Pawan Kumar clearly has an issue with directing in Malayalam. His lack of knowledge of the language is pretty obvious in the dialogues and the way the actors are directed. Some of the scenes felt like the sketches my friends used to do in college where they don't know what to do with their bodies after the dialogue is said. Even Fahadh couldn't do anything with this stuff but at the same time, Roshan did terrific despite these circumstances where almost everyone else was terrible.

Corporate greed and lack of ethics are not at all just tied to a single industry like the makers may be thinking to make a movie in this way. Most people are also much more intelligent and knowledgeable about the effects of tobacco and related products than the movie gives them credit for even if there would always be a percentage who'd be always ignorant.

There were so many things in the movie that were so forced, so hammy in the movie but the dumbest of them all should be how it showed that none of the employees or board members of a cigarette company smokes because they supposedly know the problems, first-hand. Are these guys serious? That too in a city like Bangalore?

Even though I've only smoked three times in the last three years, I felt like I should have a smoke to recover from this.