Amal Neerad’s ‘Bougainvillea’, with Kunchacko Boban, Jyothirmayi and Fahadh Faasil, is a solid drama/thriller with an underwhelming final stretch

For the most part, this is a quiet, subtle drama that turns into a detective story. The general feeling of us piecing together things just as the protagonist’s mind pieces them together is beautifully done. The rest of this review may contain spoilers…

Amal Neerad follows up his very macho Bheeshma Parvam with the very delicate Bougainvillea, which marks Jyothirmayi’s return to the big screen after a long absence. She is fantastic. She plays Reethu, a woman with some kind of amnesia. She notes things down in a diary or else on scraps of paper, so that she knows basic facts: say, that she has two young children, who seem to have been born late. This observation comes from Reethu’s salt-and-pepper hair. Jyothirmayi plays this character with just the right amount of confusion, without overdoing the spaced-out expressions. Even with her minimalistic gestures and looks, you can sense her unsureness. You can sense her mind slowing down to process who this person is or what happened earlier in the day. In the opening scene, we hear the Kishore Kumar hit “Neele neele ambar par…” It is in sync with the serene blueness of Reethu’s world. From her rocking chair to her clothes, that is the dominant colour.

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