2 Penkuttikal was in my hard disk for more than a year before I watched it. The reason is that I couldn't find a time to watch it because there were many promising movies to watch. And that says it. Does this movie have nothing promising in it?
I don't remember the exact reason for why I downloaded it because it was about a year ago and yet I like to assume it was Amala Paul. But I'm sure it came as a suggestion after I put my ratings for 5 sundarikal.
However, the reason I started watching this is nothing other than the need to cleanup the hard drive despite of the mediocre, probably bad reviews of it in IMDb.
First thing was the subtitles. It's been always a burden in considering Malayalam movies. They make quality movies yet not much interested in doing good subs for it. However by adjusting about 90 seconds, I could get the it to sync properly. It was smooth after that for the most part.
The very start made me think suspiciously because it was clearly understood that this is a low budget movie. And the intro wasn't appealing enough. The opening credits were in black background with small cuts to some events of the life of a small girl. And the repeating opening bgm wasn't welcoming because it was the same repeating clip. And opening credits were too slow and long. Since this is a one and half hour movie other than typical over two and half hour Malayalam movie, I thought it was necessary to make the credits roll more in order to stretch it a little bit.
Once the movie started, and after few minutes, I felt that this is a well directed and we'll edited movie. Thought it is a simple script, the actors make it reliable. Specially the perfectly tuned Anna Fathima as Achu is doing the character perfectly. And she we'll deserve the recognition she had. Amazing job.
The movie was interesting to watch, not boring as some of the reviewers have mentioned. But it's after all the choice of the viewer. This is not a children's movie but you have to adjust yourself to it because it almost is a children's movie. But with a strong messages for the whole society. And what I'm impressed is how they managed to incorporate it so naturally by building a character with those attitudes of a rebellion.
I like to conclude this saying this is a really good movie to watch. Not the typical Malayalam movie but it is filled with beat quality material. Well directed. After all Jeo Baby is a director to watch. Hope he'll do amazing work.
The only regret I had was casting Amala Paul as the elder Achu because she doesn't match with Achu's profile. At least she should have given a darker facial makeup. But yet again who knows? Maybe Achu's mother's remedy to make her a fair lady finally worked.
