Dhoomakethu
Comedy Thriller Malayalam
On the morning of his wedding, 36 year old Kuttan wakes from a disturbing dream about his own death. As the day unfolds, familiar moments begin to repeat and reality becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from memory. Realizing that something is terribly wrong, Kuttan races to uncover the truth before the day repeats itself again.
| Cast: | Nikhila Vimal, Sajin Gopu, Ganapathi S. Poduval, Shine Tom Chacko, Sidharth Bharathan, Manju Pillai, Rajesh Pandian, Abel Twinkle, Adish Praveen, |
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| Director: | Sudhi Maddison |
| Writer: | Sonny, Manu |
| Editor: | Vivek Harshan |
| Camera: | Jinto George |
All Guild Reviews of "Dhoomakethu"
A Time Loop Comedy That Keeps Droning on and on and On
The film’s repetition is deliberate, designed to evoke the claustrophobia of having no control over your day. But to break free from its own monotony, the answers to some questions needed to be far more shocking than what the film ultimately offers.
Writers Manu and Sonny seem to have stumbled upon a terrific premise for one of Malayalam’s first time-loop comedies (Sajin Gopu himself has starred in Lijo Jose Pellissery’s darker Churuli) with Dhoomakethu (comet). Not only is the setting obviously Malayali, with much of the film taking place in a typical small-town home as it gets wedding-ready, but there’s also the theme of jealousy that feels peculiarly Malayali in this joyous setting. This includes sneaky caterers wondering out loud about how a man as old and unappealing as Kuttan (Sajin Gopu) can score a wife like Sharmila (Nikhila Vimal). This includes nosy neighbours reminding each other of Sharmila’s ‘colourful past’ and of reasons why Kuttan has remained single for this long. Just as hilarious is one of Kuttan’s frenemies deciding to buy himself a new car exactly on the date of the wedding.
A Humorous Time Loop Film Which Works in Parts
For a part of the film’s runtime, a blend of the now familiar time loop trope with humour seems to work, until some of the hard work unravels due to weak writing of the background story
Any out of the world concept can lose its sheen when it becomes too commonplace and is overused. So it is with the time loop concept in cinema, the latest iteration of which is in Sudhi Maddison’s Dhoomakethu (comet). There is some irony in naming a film with a now commonplace concept with something as rare as a comet. Yet for a part of its runtime, the blend of this now familiar trope with humour seemed to work, until some of the hard work unravels due to weak writing of the background story.
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