Merry Christmas Review: Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupathi’s movie was released in the theatres this Friday and the film received praise. It is promised to be a thrilling and intriguing story that will give chills to the audience. The promotion of the film was at its peak but is the film worth the hype? Let’s know more about it by seeing the review.
Story
A split screen at the beginning of the movie shows two mixer grinders. One turns lentils and chiles into maligai podi, while the other uses tablets to make a powder. Both hide sinister secrets. When they come to light, they expose two sides of compulsive love gone wrong. What one makes of it depends on the flavour it leaves behind, just as it does for the two main characters in the movie.
Rich in artistic, visual, and musical touches that greatly heighten the mystery surrounding a Christmas Eve “romance” between a mysterious loner who returns to his Mumbai house after a protracted absence and Pari Maheshwari Sharma, an unhappy married mother of a small, wide-eyed daughter. Merry Christmas is as Rohmerian in its long and piercingly unsentimental psychological inquiry into the mechanics of love, loyalty, and betrayal as it is Hitchcockian in its unnerving twists and turns.
The audience has so much to savour and unpack in this film that it never feels pretentious or overly deliberate—even when there’s just talk happening on screen, stray glances being exchanged between two strangers, or just awkward silences being resorted to in trying to penetrate the distance that exists between Maria (Katrina Kaif) and Albert (Vijay Sethupathi).
Performances
In one of the most compelling on-screen roles of her career, Katrina Kaif portrays uncertainty and vulnerability with sporadic bursts of fierce resolve in an incredibly understated way. The contrast that Vijay Sethupathi represents—an actor who depends more on his eyes and facial expressions than on words alone to convey the raging storm within and around his heart and mind—helps her great lot.
As they enjoy a drink together at Maria’s house and then go for a stroll, the two main characters radiate a combination of calmness and mischievousness. They exchange brief information with one another to help each other relax and provide the spectator with some clarity. However, the latter effect is not universal; rather, it is designed to function as a hybrid of concealment and disclosure.
Conclusion
The screenplay, written by Anukriti Pandey, Pooja Ladha Surti, Arijit Biswas, and Raghavan, is full of clues that become more and more significant as the story takes place in and around a woman’s house above a family bakery that distributes butter biscuits to schools. The interiors of homes and cityscapes are engulfed in a hint of magic by director of photography Madhu Neelakandan, who also conveys mystery and festivity in the frames he composes.
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