The filmmaking is better than the writing in Jithin Issac Thomas’s ‘Rekha’, a love story that morphs into a detective story

Spoilers ahead…

The director’s earlier work,  Attention Please, was an angry film about art being the ultimate weapon. Rekha is more about the heart. 

The pre-interval stretch of gives no idea about what lies later. What we get at first is a beautiful depiction of a family and the small, sleepy community that surrounds them. If a vessel for filling up water falls accidentally into a well, the splash sound is enough to arouse everyone to action. Even earlier, we have had some amusement about a mother who’s upset that her hen is not laying eggs. She vents her anger on her daughter, who’s still asleep. The father is kinder. Even without overt gestures of affection, we feel his closeness with the daughter, who’s the Rekha of the title. The director, Jithin Issac Thomas, seems to be in a much calmer mood than he was in , which was an angry film about art being the ultimate weapon. is more about the heart. Again, I’m only talking about the pre-interval stretch.

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