A mindless, sensory experience that revels in its violence -

When males bursting to the brim with their egos decide to fight each other, they don’t need a function. When these males are in a film, they don’t need a script, nor the presence of a woman on the show display screen. That might want to have been how the preliminary discussions of Tinu Pappachan’s Ajagajantharam panned out — for that’s exactly what takes place by means of the movie’s two hour-runtime.

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The complete narrative is about throughout the night of a pooram competitors at a temple. The breathless tempo of the movie is about correct in these early sequences, after we alter between the fully-dressed up drama troupe who’re arriving barely too late, the elephant and the group of mahouts who look like raring for a fight, the native goon and his gang of buddies who’re celebrating his birthday, and the happenings at a wedding event. One can sense the stress construct up in each of these separate situations, and all of it heading to a collision course.

There really isn't any character one can root for proper here, for a median viewer is often left questioning why all of them are desirous to have a fight. Nonetheless then all of them look like caught in a kind of online recreation the place you could’t help nevertheless fight each other! Lali (Antony Varghese) seems to be in all probability essentially the most troublesome of the lot, alongside together with his propensity to create a fight wherever he’s present, be it a wedding or a temple competitors. The other gang led by Kannan (Arjun Ashokan), all of whom are jobless and are seen contemptuously by their very personal family members, aren't any a lot much less desirous to hit once more.

In his second film after his debut with Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil, Tinu Pappachan seems to proudly carry the have an effect on of Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Jallikattu; merely that it’s an elephant proper here as an alternative of a buffallo. The aim is clearly to create a sensory experience, which a temple competitors affords ample scope for. Aided by Justin Varghese’s pulsating score and Jinto George’s cinematography, the movie does succeed on this specific endeavour, with the story or the script not creating any type of hindrance… as every are non-existent.

No strive is made to level out us the minds of these characters or their backgrounds, which could possibly give us a contact as to why all of them behave one of the simplest ways they do. Among the many fights are started for no function the least bit, apart from for the sake of getting a tiff, and be a function for a vibrant explosion of fast-paced movement and sound on show display screen. Nonetheless, the tasteful technique by which just a few of those sequences are staged often makes us neglect all our million grouses with the film.

However, by the highest, Ajagajantharam solely leaves us with the question, “All of that, for what?” Within the meantime, by the purpose we attain the climax, the scriptwriter (certain, there could also be one) even forgets the one girl character that was created — seemingly for the sake of it.

Ajagajantharam is presently working in theatres