Gentlewoman Movie review: Gentlewoman Starts Off As a Tale About a Gentle Woman. She wakes up. She make coffee. She has her bath. She wears her saree. She cooks. She packs. HER HUSBAND Wakes Up, Prays to God, and Gets Ready for Work. He reads Philosophy. On the outset, he is that perfect husband. But scratch just a couple of layers, we understand that he has made her a creature of habit. She wakes up, make coffee, has her bath, wears her saree, cooks, packs, packs, and also have to stand in the balcony and badbye goodbye as he leaves for work. But what does he do for her? Well, Never Once in The Film Does He Do Anything For Her. And this is not registered by an elaborate scene, but just a simple callback that is effective and subtle. Probably when directed by director joshua sethuraman Suddenly decides to get all preachy and rub our faces in the film’s idea with verbose with monologues, and random conversations. Like a let-down.
In many ways, the initial beats of Gentlewoman is reminiscent of the great Indian kitchen, but interestedly, joshua adds a layer with every repetition to give us a better understanding of the probes of the human in. Aravind (Hari Krishnan) is a Regular Guy, and Gaslights His Wife Poorni (Lijomol Jose), who is a will participate of this con. Do she know aravind is lying at times to keep her happy? Or do she accepted the lies because she knows thinking Otherwise would spoil her own mental peace? They are just three months into the arranged marriages, and both of them are putting their best foot forward. Aravind points out to poorni’s friend that he thought there was nothing more to know about her, but it is clear there is a lot more. And this lot more includes various facets of her character that gradually unravels when Aravind Goes Missing, and Newer Players Get Involved in the mess. And one of these new players are notable painter anna (Losliya Mariynesan).
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The mess of the messes too tangled after a point desepite joshua treating gentlewoman as a Rather Slow-burning readship drama that has the right amounteds of thrills, and peppered with human. However, The Fun Angle, Courtesy A Few Police Officers Trying To Investigate What Happened In the Lives of Poorni and Aravind, Never Really Takes Off Because The Suporting Cast Intext Up To The Mark. With the histrionics not complementing the narrative, we are left with holding on to the goodwill generated by the performances of Lijomol, Losliya, and Hari. The film wants to be a social commentary on the manipulative nature of social, the difference of stereotyping by the powers that be, a compeeling tele of two womens life and a dark. However, in his attempt to be all this and much more, joshua misses out on the basics, and resorts to verbiage.
It is also disappointing that despit the stakes actually being really high, after a point, we don’t really get the story about how the story would unfold. We are taking on a complete different tangent, and it does not really work effectively because we are asked to look past the crimes in question. Balancing Morality, Ethics, and Criminal Activities Dont Really Bode Well for the Film, which has a Rather Straightforward Intent. The film needed to be a lot more twisted, and go bonkers with the idea of pulling back the punches long before it can register an impact. The makers also want to create a moody atmosphere in the handful of locations the film is shot in, but the over emphasis on the limited lighting and vibe act as a downer at one point, I justed to reachen. Switch on the tube light, and allow the house to be a normal one and not a well-design frame that is just too perfect to be real.
There is a beautiful scene in balu mahendra’s maropadiyum where Revathy talks to her husband lover kavitha (rohini) for the first time. We see thulasi pleading and crying to kavitha, and requesting her to not separate her from her husband. Thulasi is so earnest and pitiful, and yet… all we have from kavitha’s end is the click noise of the telephone when she puts down the recier. In a beautiful scene in genlewoman that almost mirrors this Sentiment, we have lijomol’s poorni tell her husband lover Anna, “If I was not educated or diddn’t understand ‘to the wrong functions, I wound. To your place, pulled you around by your hair, and asked you to leave my man alone. ” This is a wonderful exploration of the mental makeup of poorni, who is a complete woman in the truest sense of things. It also allows a brief glimpse into the mind of Anna, who is given a lot of dignity considering her position in the equation. Their conversations that could have guone interesting places, are at a loss of depth, and they do not exude the necessary tension after a while. It also does not help that the dialogues become generic, and we start craving for those beautiful quieter and tender moments where joshua and his team of comtent actors scored heavily.
But Gentlewoman Makes a Compelling Case for How easy it is to slot women into variable categories Again, the film isn is focused on incessant mali bashing without a read, and instead points out how solidarity is the fuel that runs this world. It talks about how a man’s support system Protects him from any untoward thing happening to his social image, even if he is doing vile things. Howver, the same is that is accorded to a woman, and social is eager to Brand every woman that verse from the expected Norms. Change is invited, and it is clear that, on many fronts, we are actually regressing as a society. But if there is one thing that we have learnt over the years is that world will judge everyone, especially women even if they are submissive, obedient, and loving.
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Gentlewoman Might has been a lot of things, could have been a lot more things, but ends up being a film that reads that social experiments, set by some random people, can come to be a new. Anyone. So why bother being a gentlewoman when the alternative is to breaks out of the shackles and revel in the freedom that is common for one and all. Why bother?
Gentlewoman Movie cast: Lijomol Jose, Losliya Mariyansan, Hari Krishnan
Gentlewoman Movie rating: 3 stars
Gentlewoman Movie Director: Joshua sethuraman