Jofin T Chacko’s ‘Rekhachithram’, with Asif Ali, is a regular thriller that slowly transforms into a moving love letter to cinema

The film begins with the discovery of a skeleton, but finds its footing once the focus shifts from who the victim is to what their life and dreams were like. Asif Ali and Anaswara Rajan give beautiful performances in this thriller that transcends its genre. The rest of this review contains spoilers.

When we first meet the protagonist – a policeman named Vivek (Asif Ali) – he has been punished for gambling online. But even before we meet him, we see two boys talking about a body being taken out of a house on a rainy night. One of them thinks that this is part of a movie. With the introduction of Vivek and these boys, the themes and visual elements of Rekhachithram are set. This is a film about rains, about the movies, and about a police investigation. Soon enough, Vivek gets involved in a case that arises from a confession. The confessor has skeletons in his closet, and his confession leads to the discovery of an actual skeleton. This is the first of several scenes set in the rains, and this mirrors the rains during the night the body was taken out of the house. Nature, apparently, has decided on a re-enactment of her state. Or maybe we should say “retake”.

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