Recent Reviews by Aswathy Gopalakrishnan
Indpendent Film Critic
Aswathy Gopalakrishnan is a film critic who writes for Silverscreen.in. She also worked as a film programmer with MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in 2019.
Films reviewed on this Page
Ullozhukku
An Astounding Urvashi Headlines a Tender Film On Love That Defies Conventions
Urvashi is a quiet rage throughout the film, stirring the frame even when she is sitting still and staring at the abyss that has opened up in her being
he first few events in Ullozhukku (Under Current), directed by Christo Tomy, happen in quick succession. Life falls through Anju’s (Parvathy) fingers before she can chart a plan. From a wide-eyed sales girl at a textile shop furtively smiling at her lover, she transforms into a bride posing for awkward post-wedding pictures on a backwater boat, her eyes heavy from what was likely a teary night. The film then moves to the old, spacious house of her husband, Thomas Kutty (Prasanth Murali), and his doting mother, Leelamma (Urvashi), in Kuttanad, where time, like a boat engine whirring to a halt at the dock, comes to a pressing stillness.