Konthayum Poonoolum; (Malayalam) Film Review
A suspense filled story backed by a star studded cast, let down only by a loose script.|Yentha.com
Hyperlink narrative format became a rage after the phenomenal success of Traffic. In the 'post-Traffic era', it is simultaneously adopted by film-makers to transfer the same confusion in their minds to the viewer's, as well as to solve all the confusion like a jig-saw puzzle, at the climax. What happens in 'Konthayum Poonoolum', is that uncertainty gets into the minds of the audience, regarding what the director Jijo Antony actually conveyed. It is an average, yet novel attempt, but what he actually meant by all those incidents remains blurred in terms of clarity. He might have possibly intended that the majority of spirits and ghosts are just results of momentary hallucinations, illusions or human interventions, while some do remain as such.
Konthayum Poonoolum is a horror-flick,which questions the very existence of ghosts/spirits through an amalgam of connected short stories. Ingredient wise, the film looks good, with cemetery, Ouija board, spirits, hallucinations and all those familiar elements that feature in typical horror flicks. Vinod Sreekumar's story features a parallel narration of many sub-plots;some of which ultimately converges. The cast consists of Kunchacko Boban, Shine Tom Chacko, Bhama, Janardhanan, his granddaughter Anju Aravind, Kalabhavan Mani, Kavitha Nair, Joy Mathew, Manoj K Jayan, Sobha Mohan, Sarayu and Pooja, among many others, without providing much screen space for any of them.
