E Malayalam Movie Review

Posted by Unknown on August 18, 2017 in Home, Review,

E stands as one of the best horror thrillers the industry have seen recently. The movie is directed by Kukku Surendran. Popular Director Sangeeth Sivan, who had directed the movies like Yodha, Nirnayam and Gandharvam is one of the producers of the movie along with Amin Surani. The movie is special to Malayalees as their favourite actress Gauthami makes a come back to Mollywood through ‘E’. E is a super-natural thriller, a genre that is relatively unexplored in Malayalam. The film is about how a mysterious event from the past comes to haunt Malathi Menon (Gautami) and unveils a secret. The film stars mostly newcomers.

E is about human relationships – such as a mother’s love for her child, friendship, the beginning of a relationship, and the end of a relationship. This movie is based on true events and it revolves around the characters named Karthik and Malathi Menon. Karthik makes a documentary on Alzheimer’s disease and Malathi Mebon is his subject. Malathi is living with her daughter named Athira and Karthik and his team comes there. There they notice the unexplainable behaviour of Malathi where she starts speaking primeval languages and starts scrawling on certain pictures as well. Then some evil things begins to happen with Malathi and later they comes to know that it is not Alzheimer’s disease but some evil spirit had taken the control over Malathi. As a horror film, E is not without its share of jumps. Gautami, at any rate, looks super creepy nomadic around in her night-gown. The film fits to her and she nails the part.

E with Gautami in the lead role gives the veteran actor the lion’s share of the screen space and it is a joy to watch her mastery over her craft. She’s fenced by a group of young actors who deliver good performances but whenever the camera is on her character Malathi Menon, the Alzheimer patient who is increasingly turning violent, Gautami owns the scene. She’s capable of drawing out tears and frightening you in equivalent quantities. When the young team making a documentary film on Alzheimer patients asks her to speak of her know-how, Malathi says she knows she’s fighting a battle she will eventually lose…but that her greatest fear is forgetting her daughter Adhira (Nithya Naresh). It could have been one of those sweet ‘mother sentiment’ moments that we’ve seen one too many times for it to really have an impact but there’s something about the way Gautami makes this claim which succeeds in moving the viewer. And it is essential to buy into this strong mother-daughter bond if the rest of the plot is to work.

E is not a typical horror movie with stereotyped ghosts and tales of revenge. It is a thriller that unfurls a saga of relationships, love, mythologies, strictures and beliefs intertwined. E has a solid screenplay as the backbone by Rohan Bajaj and Hari Kumar K which succeeds in making the audience to feel the fear. Rahul Raj’s music works apt for the plot and Manoj Pillai has his camera eyes focusing on every tiny things that gives perfection. Ayub Khan brings a final output with his editing and that is what amazes the viewers.