Sajin Shrijith’s review of Girish AD’s ‘Premalu’: A familiar story with a fresh, quirky touch
- Trinity Auditorium
- Feb 11, 2024
- 1 min read
A familiar story can look fresh when you add the right ingredients and enrich it with details that a lesser filmmaker wouldn’t have even imagined .
Girish AD’s Premalu is a ‘literally me’ movie. It will be hard to find a guy, especially from India, who hasn’t experienced the same emotions as the film’s protagonist Sachin (Naslen). There will be many hands pointing towards the screen, like Leonardo DiCaprio in that scene from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and say, “Dude, I know exactly how you feel!”
In pursuing love, would he end up as the good or bad guy in another character’s life? Premalu is a quest to find that answer. Is he or someone else the hero of the woman Reenu (Mamitha Baiju) he desperately yearns for? Does she believe in love or marriage at all? In the film’s early segments, she tells her friends she wants someone older and well-settled. There is one who fits that description, Aadhi (Shyam Mohan), but he turns out to be… super annoying, and Shyam rises to the challenge. He is that pseudo-toxic, self-proclaimed “feminist”. But it’s firmly established that it would be a tough competition between Sachin and Aadhi to get Reenu. Will she choose one of them or nobody at all?
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