Now the rest of the characters are being introduced almost in the routine format, as we usually see in most films of this genre.
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The driver of this bus is Sukumaran (Biju Menon), who speaks in an accent, which is different from everyone else in the film. But the problem here is that this backdrop has not been developed into a gripping storyline or script.Įravikkuttan Pillai (Kunchacko Boban) has joined KSRTC as a conductor in the only bus that connects Pathanamthitta and Gavi. The other is ?the KSRTC bus service?, which whether we like it or not, is part of our lives. One is a largely unexplored and beautiful land called Gavi. If toxic masculinity of Sachi comes as a rude shock, feminism of the so far meek Vasu comes as a pleasant surprise.There are two striking aspects in debutant director Sugeeth?s Ordinary. The last scene is nothing short of brilliance where Sachi seeks her ring finger and Vasu shows him her middle finger. The movie, though has no heroes, it definitely has a heroine in Vasu who gives a fitting reply to Sachi who proposes to her after coming to know that she was not molested that night.
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The fact that the movie is directed by man is an illustration of this point. But that’s the case, calling out evils of patriarchy doesn’t mean branding all men as evil, it’s about wanting to correct the system to pave way for a more progressive tomorrow. They might think the movie perpetuates the feminist stereotyping of men. There could be people who have a problem with this movie, especially the ‘NotAllMen’ crusaders. If moral policing was Alwyn’s justification, revenge was Sachi’s. But both of them are two sides of the same coin, products of similar patriarchal upbringing, which makes it easy for men to justify the crimes against women in their heads. We see the villain in Alwyn before we are introduced to normalcy of his life and we see Sachi’s normalcy before we see the villain in him. Blurring the lines between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ men Similarly, shocking is the normalcy we see in Alwyn’s house, its difficult to imagine a person coming from a seemingly loving household being capable of the atrocious behavior he indulges the other night. The gross double standards of Sachi in being angered at his girlfriend at the suspicion of her being a hapless victim of molestation, and yet not having reservations about being a perpetrator of a similar crime on another woman tells us how screwed up patriarchal values are. He has no qualms about wanting to molest his wife to teach Alwyn a lesson. He traces down Alwyn’s house and decides to traumatize his family, comprising his wife and a ten year old daughter. There is no heroism in his revenge as he is still shit scared of Alwyn’s physical strength, though he discovers that he is not a police inspector but a mere ambulance driver. What Sachi does post that is not very different from what Alwyn does the other night. He thinks that because he failed in his ‘duty as man’, he is being denied his ‘right as a man’, i.e t o know if anyone touched his property. The source of Sachi’s anger is more to do with his punctured male ego than any concern for Vasu, that comes second. When she counter questions about what happened to his manhood the previous night, he leaves the scene in a fury. Vasu is devastated at his lack of sensitivity when he tells her that as a man he has a ‘right to know’. In his mind, he is a bigger victim than her if at all she was molested. When Sachi drops Vasu off at her hostel after the rogues let them go, his largest concern seems to be if Alwyn did something to her in the car, when he sent Sachi away for few minutes to interrogate her in private. It is at this point that we begin to realize why the caption of the movie is “not a love story”. The movie surprises the audience with the shades and nuances it unravels in Sachi post the incident, and we see the lines between him and Alwyn blurring. We can’t help wondering how things like this can happen in a civilized society? How can two adults be held to ransom for something as natural as wanting to kiss in a moment of solitude?īut that’s not the crux of the movie. It’s heart wrenching to see his helplessness. Sachi is torn between his lack of physical strength to fight the men and his concern for Vasu’s safety.
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It made my skin crawl when the drunk Alwyn with his creepy smile keeps attempting to converse with Vasu, who is scared out of her wits. Though there is not much physical violence in the scene, the emotional violence the two men inflict on the couple is so disturbing that I could barely sit through those scenes without experiencing a bit of their trauma. Never miss real stories from India's women.
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