A couple of months back, there was a hue & cry headlined by PC George regarding the title of Nadirshah's latest directorial venture. That movie happened to be "Eesho" & I presume most of us would have heard about that flick courtesy of the news hour discussions that beamed on various channels. Anyway the movie released on SonyLIV close to a fortnight back & spoke about a socially relevant topic that the director had tackled in his debut venture as well. So will it garner similar response from the audience???
The story is predominantly told over the course of a night with the focus being the interaction between Ramachandran Pillai (Jaffer Idukki) & a rather strange person who introduced himself as Eesho (Jayasurya). The former was an ATM security guard & the prime witness in a child abuse case against a prominent businessman Sevichan (Suresh Krishna). Both of them get along well but the more they interacted, the more mysterious Eesho turned out to be.
Apart from the controversy regarding its title, it also faced a lot of flak due to allegations of plagiarism that was mounted against Suneesh Varanad. Anyway whether there is any truth to it is something that I have no idea about, but the story as such barely had any sense of novelty to it. It was way too predictable to the extent that there wasn't a single sequence that could classify it as a thriller. The whole movie was rather minimalistic & apart from Roby Varghese's cinematography which sets the mood aptly, none of the other technical aspects deserves special mention.
Both Jaffer Idukki & Jayasurya have done their parts well with the former churning out yet another solid performance. As for the rest of the cast, such as Namitha Pramod, Johny Antony, Indrans etc. none of them had much screen space & had limited opportunity to perform.
Verdict: Certainly a wise decision to release it on OTT coz I doubt whether it would have survived more than a couple of days at the theatres. With a run time of only about 107 minutes, you can give it a try though dont expect to be invested in it!!!
Rating: 2.25/5
Regards...Ben
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