Balaji Kumar’s ‘Kolai’ is great to look at, but the murder mystery beneath is barely exciting
- Trinity Auditorium
- Jul 21, 2023
- 1 min read
Spoilers ahead…
Balaji Kumar made an impressive debut with , in 2013. Ten years later, he is back with a film that at least looks impressive. – based on a true-life murder case – feels like a music video fused with a fashion shoot fused with the sensibilities of a noir-comic like . The look fits because the murder victim is a fashion model – and as she says, she is all about surfaces. The old song ‘ is sung, and also used frequently in the jazz-inflected background score. And these songs come with surreal visuals: clouds that look like faces, and two lovers standing between trains roaring past them. Even the song that opens the film has a certain sensibility. It’s the aria ‘Nessun dorma’. It’s almost a signal that the visuals are going to be equally operatic.
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