Althaf Salim’s ‘Odum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira’, with Fahadh Faasil and Kalyani Priyadarshan, is an ambitious misfire

The film uses mental illness as a blueprint for its screenplay, but two-and-a-half hours of free-association and absurdism is a lot to handle. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

In Njandukalude Nattil Oridavela, Althaf Salim proved that you could tell a cancer story with comedy. In Odum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira, the writer-director gets even more ambitious. The narrative revolves around a bunch of severely dysfunctional people. Some of them are depressed and lonely. Someone has weight issues. Someone says that they exist in a state between dreams and reality. The stars on the poster are Fahadh Faasil and Kalyani Priyadarshan. They play Aby and Nidhi, who are soon to be married. But the real star of the film is a broad spectrum of mental health issues. Aby’s brother calls Nidhi “completely insane”. He might say the same about everyone, from the major character Lal plays to the lady at a dining table who just can’t stop laughing. The film did not work for me, but before I begin to say why, HUGE respect for everyone involved for even trying such a thing!

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