Kamal Prakash’s ‘Kingston’, starring GV Prakash Kumar, is a good comic-book idea let down by its execution
- Trinity Auditorium
- Mar 7
- 1 min read
This could have been a fun equivalent of a page-turner, but the non-linear narration and the stabs at rootedness keep playing spoilsport. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
Imagine a fishing village right beside a sea with no fish. Worse, the men who go out to sea do not return, and the villagers whisper about a curse – as though a vengeful spirit has possessed this vast water body. That’s the imaginative setting of GV Prakash Kumar’s 25th film, Kingston. At first, we get a morally ambiguous hero, but when Kingston discovers that someone has been using him to smuggle drugs, something changes. He jumps into a fishing boat and goes to sea. This event is around the interval point, and this is where the title appears. So what occurs until then? Writer-director Kamal Prakash wants to immerse us in this environment. He tries to root his story with a ton of characters and a ton of atmosphere and a ton of backstory. So until that interval point, we keep going back and forth in time, getting some sort of history along with the coastal geography.
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