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Directed by Nirmal Sahadev

Kumari is married off to Dhruvan of Kanjirangattu Tharavadu, a cursed land beyond Illmayi, in the west. As Kumari finds her comfort zone in her new family which is heavy with mystery, myths and superstitions, she also realizes that the people over there are blinded by faith and sorcery, ready to sacrifice their lives to preserve tradition, prosperity and peace.

Aishwarya Lekshmi Shine Tom Chacko Swasika Surabhi Lakshmi Rahul Madhav Tanvi Ram George Shivajith Padmanabhan Giju John Shruthy Menon Santhakumari Savithri Sreedharan Dineesh P

Director Director

Nirmal Sahadev

Producers Producers

Jakes Bejoy Giju John Nirmal Sahadev Sreejith Sarang Aishwarya Lekshmi Priyanka Joseph Mridula Pinapala Jins Varghese

Writers Writers

Fazal Hameed Nirmal Sahadev

Story Story

Editor editor.

Sreejith Sarang

Cinematography Cinematography

Abraham Jospeh

Executive Producer Exec. Producer

Harris Desom

Production Design Production Design

Visual effects visual effects.

Sanath T.G.

Stunts Stunts

Dhilip Subbarayan

Composers Composers

Jakes Bejoy Manikandan Ayyappa

Songs Songs

Jyothish Kasi Joe Paul Kaithapram Damodaran

Sound Sound

Aravind Menon Sachin Sudhakaran Hari Haran

Costume Design Costume Design

Stephy Zaviour

Makeup Makeup

Amal Chandran Kyle Pasciutti

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Horror Drama Thriller Mystery

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Review by ShadowMan ★★★ 2

I am glad this movie exists.

Shine and aishu have great chemistry here. Like they really work out as a great pair. When it comes to the acting, shine just lives the character. Man even forgot the fact that he should be audible to people. But ya the mumble thing worked out for me…It really suits that character. He manages to keep the spooky vibes and be vulnerable at the same time. Aishu also does a great job in fitting into this world. The cinematography and all the other technical stuff were adding a lot personality. 

Nirmal Sahadev needs a good writer…like the concept really has a lot to offer. The dialogues made it sound like play rather than movie.…

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Kumari was actually slightly better than I expected, in a way.

This one is visually beautiful and outstanding, with great cinematography and locations. You can literally extract HD postcards from this, for sure (the pond, for instance). The sound department follows closely... I thought the background soundtrack was very strong but some of the "music" interludes were good but not on that level (and they did overextend the movie a bit, IMO).

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Making is fine, but the screenplay is as mundane as they come. Had a hard time keeping my eyes open, to be honest. Shine Tom Chacko is miscast in a role with complex/mixed shades and delivers one of his interview  performances here. Aishwarya Lekshmi does most of the weight-lifting but there’s only so much one artist could do with such a dreary material to work on. This mythological folk horror story had such a fantastical premise, but ends up as a wasted opportunity.

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‘Kumari’ movie review: Immersive fantasy-horror drama pulled down by a shallow script

Aishwarya lekshmi ably anchors the film with support from a talented set of actors, including surabhi lakshmy, who is almost unrecognisable.

October 28, 2022 02:16 pm | Updated 02:16 pm IST

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A sense of inevitability, of the unleashing of evil forces at some point of time, pervades Kumari right from its beginning. That, of course, has to be expected in a film belonging to this genre, combining elements of fantasy and horror. The prologue — with an extended narration of a grandma’s tale — of the curses that have befallen the wealthy Kanhirangat family, also adds to this feeling. Kumari (Aishwarya Lekshmi) is about to arrive at this household, after getting married to Dhruvan (Shine Tom Chacko), the younger son of the family head.

Nirmal Sahadev is somewhat successful in immersing the viewer in this tharavadu , and the village around it, which is steeped in superstition. It seems almost cut off from the rest of the world, with even Kumari not stepping out of it, after entering it. The only character who visits her from outside also does not return. The slow build-up towards doomsday works up to a point, but the script does not have anything in it to live up to the anticipation that has been carefully created.

This is evident in how things start going south immediately after the halfway point. Three characters, who had stood out in different ways, get killed off in quick succession. Different evil forces are invoked left and right, with someone suggesting Kumari release a third one to save the household. Just a couple more and we could have had a major conference of dark forces, with the huge tharavadu having enough room to accommodate all of them. The writing is listless in the latter half, squandering all the hard work in production design, which adds to the mood that the director is aiming at.

One interesting sidetrack is the portrayal of the family’s oppression of the tenant farmers in the village, making the upper-caste elites appear more evil than the dark forces residing deep in the jungle. However, this angle is not pursued much. More time is invested in the family’s black magic practices, including human sacrifice, that has eerie parallels to some recent news reports. The film does not have a rational counter to these practices; rather, Kumari counters it with other superstitions that are much less harmful. In that respect, it is quite old-school and different from recent horror attempts in Malayalam cinema, many of which had left the window open for rational interpretations too. The horror elements don’t work much either

Aishwarya Lekshmi ably anchors the film with support from a set of actors including Surabhi Lakshmy, who is almost unrecognisable. However, Shine Tom Chacko — an otherwise brilliant actor — appears a shadow of his usual self, with an over-dramatic performance, and dialogue delivery reminiscent of some of his recent infamous interviews.

Director Nirmal Sahadev, who debuted with Ranam , an action drama set in Detroit, has improved his game marginally, but a shallow script pulls Kumari down.

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The world of Kumari, who is married off far away in Kanhirangat, a cursed land beyond Illymala, in the west. A naive Kumari arrives in the cursed land, where people are ready to sacrifice their lives to preserve tradition and power. Kumari featuring Aishwarya Lekshmi and Shine Tom Chacko is streaming with subscription on Netflix, and streaming with subscription on Netflix with Ads. It's a drama and horror movie with an average IMDb audience rating of 6.4 (2,222 votes).

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Nirmal sahadev, aishwarya lekshmi, shine tom chacko, surabhi lakshmi, rahul madhav.

Thuppan Thampuran

Shivajith Padmanabhan

Shruthy menon.

Kunjamma Pillai

Santhakumari

Savithri sreedharan, jakes bejoy, sreejith sarang.

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Fazal hameed, manikandan ayyappa.

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Rating: ( 4 / 5).

Those who felt alienated by the attempt at making a Hollywood-ised Malayalam action thriller in filmmaker Nirmal Sahadev's debut, Ranam , should find the relatively more grounded setting of his second feature, Kumari , more comforting to their sensibilities. If the two films are placed next to each other in front of someone who has no clue as to the person who directed it, there is a chance they might get surprised at being told it's the same person. Ranam was on par with a Hollywood film in terms of technical finesse. I don't know the complete story behind its making other than the information that the Prithviraj-starrer was supposed to look way more ambitious, a plan eventually curtailed by budgetary constraints. 

However, Kumari gives the sense that Nirmal and his team got to exercise their creative freedom in a way they couldn't on Ranam . I say this because Kumari seems -- to me at least -- a more wholesome work. Beginning with the voiceover opening narration that sets up the back story for the whirlpool of events about to unfold, Kumari engaged me through the ferocious climactic battle between -- well, I'm not going to spoil it for you.

Director: Nirmal Sahadev

Cast: Aishwarya Lekshmi, Shine Tom Chacko, Giju John, Tanvi Ram, Swasika, Shruti Menon, Surabhi Lakshmi

Powered by a heavily folklore-influenced narrative that bears elements of a gothic horror story or a monster feature, Kumari is one of those films with all its departments well-balanced. There is no attempt from one to overshadow the other. I see Aishwarya Lekshmi's titular protagonist as a Malayali version of the main character from Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca simply because she is married off to a family tormented by a dark history. When Kumari first arrives at the front gate of her spouse Dhruvan's (Shine Tom Chacko) ancestral mansion, it is nighttime, and the place, although abundantly lit, exudes an air of menace. And once you realise that this is the same place where something terrible happened a while back -- an incident depicted in the film's prologue -- you anticipate many chilling eventualities. It's just another patriarchal household where newlywed women get a warm welcome and have no clue about the overwhelming darkness that will soon engulf them. 

Interestingly, Kumari -- which swirls around dark magic and chathan seva (demon worship) -- comes out at a time when another film based on Hindu myths and rituals ( Kantara ) is running in theatres, aside from the fact Kerala recently witnessed an extremely unsettling case of human sacrifice. Kumari 's central idea fits comfortably in the numerous scary stories our mothers and grandmothers had narrated to us. Some of us grew up believing them, while others grew up to realise that they are just stories. I belong to the latter. (Yes, one can be an atheist and still enjoy these stories.) And Kumari is a very effective one at that. It's rich with details, revealing more intriguing characters and back stories as it progresses. 

Take, for example, the whole subplot involving Giju John (playing Shine's cocky elder brother), his wife (Swasika), and his paramour (Shruti Menon). The entire thing has a Shakespearean flavour. Shruti doesn't show up often in the film, but her Lady Macbeth-like influence becomes responsible for a fair amount of damage later on. While on Shakespeare, Shivajith Padmanabhan, who starred in Jayaraj's Malayalam adaptation of Macbeth ( Veeram ), makes a small but crucial appearance while Tanvi Ram plays his doomed spouse. In the meantime, we get a Vidheyan-like oppression angle with farmers reliant on the mercy of the elite. 

Interestingly, we find subservient characters even in the upper-caste household, which includes Dhruvan. When we first meet him, he is seated on the floor next to his father's feet. He is like a pet that, one fine day, becomes its owner's pride after the latter realises that it can produce an heir -- in this case, to continue the legacy of the tharavadu. But every male character in Kumari who believes he is in charge becomes as vulnerable here as the powerless, given the presence of sinister forces in the background.

But Kumari is ultimately driven by the tumultuous conflict between Dhruvan and Kumari. Shine demonstrates yet another delightfully bizarre turn that doesn't strike one as repetitive. The actor employs his entire physicality to produce a performance that evolves from timid and tender to deranged and violent. His aberrant behaviour gets a backstory that's not entirely clear. That's where one of the minor quibbles I have with the film lie -- the incoherent delivery of some of Shine's dialogues. I wonder if it's deliberate -- you know, to add a sense of mystery? Is this approach similar to what Christopher Nolan did with Tom Hardy in The Dark Knight Rises? 

On the other hand, Aishwarya lends Kumari the necessary amount of grace, adventurous spirit, maternal traits, and steely determination. I liked how the melodrama is kept to a bare minimum, even when she encounters the most tragic circumstances -- and this is a story with enough scope for melodrama; fortunately, the team behind the film seems to have a clear idea of where to draw the line. Aishwarya's is not a performance marked by excess theatricality, unlike that of Shine, for whom it makes complete sense. I cannot imagine anyone else in Dhruvan's role now. 

I must also add that it was refreshing to see Rahul Madhav playing a good guy for a change. The staging of his final confrontation with Shine is sufficiently intense. And Surabhi Lakshmi is nearly unrecognisable in a performance that oscillates between chilling and motherly.

As with Ranam, the most impressive aspect of Kumari is its visual texture heavy with ominous foreboding. Cinematographer Abraham Joseph's painterly frames, which chiefly rely on available light, recall the work of Santosh Sivan in Perumthachan or John Alcott in Barry Lyndon. Gokul Das' art is devoid of gaudiness. Jakes Bejoy's background score is quite effective except in that underwhelming introductory song with Aishwarya. I must credit Sreejith Sarang's seamless editing for ensuring that I was not bored even for a second throughout the film. 

The special effects-heavy finale is reminiscent of the impressive B-movies of the 80s, particularly that of John Carpenter, of whom I'm a huge fan. The choice of revealing the monster(s) only in the third act follows the tradition of Steven Spielberg ( Jaws ) and Ridley Scott ( Alien ). 

In escapist stories of such nature, I always seek that immersive, time-travel-like experience, which is just what I got from Kumari.

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After getting married off, the naive young Kumari arrives in a cursed land and discovers that its inhabitants are willing to go to extreme measures to preserve traditions and power.

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Kumari Review | Aishwarya Lekshmi-starrer loses its way in a supernatural world

It seems Prithviraj Sukumaran is ready to spend his time and money on any script as long as it has an element of high drama. Take his directorial debut 'Lucifer', or his recent films 'Kuruthi', 'Jana Gana Mana' or 'Kaduva', his penchant for high drama is clearly evident.

Tell him, there is an element of the underworld, terrorism or something supernatural in the story, and he is readily onboard. He has acted in at least five films themed around the supernatural in the past five years. So, one has every reason to believe that Prithviraj must have been lured to Aishwarya Lekshmi-starrer 'Kumari' primarily by its plot which has supernatural and sorcery at its core. Prithviraj doesn’t play any role in the film; he is a co-producer.

'Kumari' is a fantasy film laced with an element of horror and loaded with motifs that are deep-rooted in Kerala's religious and ritualistic psyche.

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It's yet another screen version of an ancient story that is told across the world, in diverse forms. The central theme is the man’s hunger for power and self-destructive interaction with the evil forces beyond his control.

No matter how many times it was told, people never run out of their curiosity when it comes to a story about the imaginary other world and its beings. The challenge before a filmmaker while attempting this genre is to make the story, often a stale one, look as fresh and convincing as possible. Director-writer Nirmal Sahadev starts 'Kumari' on the right note. The film has the perfect beginning for fantasy as the prelude sets the launchpad right. The grandma’s tale takes the audience to a strange world of the good gods and the mischievous elves and goblins rather easily. The problem with the narrative as it progresses is that it fails to live up to the build-up in the initial sequences.

The film is set in an undated period where feudalism is the order of the day. The story unfolds in a local landlord's ancestral house – in its dark corridors, dim-lit rooms and spooky attic. And the action at times shifts to the depths of a forest nearby. No, there are no ghosts in the film. Instead, there is a 'chathan' (a supernatural being worshipped by the so-called lower castes) and another blood-thirsty deity. Between them is Kumari, a village girl who was married off to the Kanhirangat tharavad (ancestral home), and her multi-shaded husband Dhruvan. Kumari not only comes to face with a series of extraordinary incidents in the house but also becomes a part of them. She is the chosen one to set right a series of wrongs committed by a former patriarch some generations ago. The setting is intriguing for anyone with a taste for fantasy and mystery.

The plot, however, is stuck in a rulebook of the genre, if there is one. The characters' tension doesn't convey to the audience. The narrative flows in a rather predictable manner, leaving little moments of thrill and fear.

Aishwarya as Kumari gives a composed performance. There is not even a single scene where she looks unconvincing even when the plot goes chaotic or confusing. Shine Tom Chacko tries his best to give life to Dhruvan, the introvert-turned-cold-blooded sorcerer and a cruel feudalist. His body language conveys the transition clearly but the character suffers from his dialogue delivery at places. Swasika Vijay as Kumari’s caring sister-in-law offers a subtle performance while Surabhi Lakshmi, an otherwise brilliant actor, is given a role that forces her to resort to an extra dose of theatrics.

Abraham Joseph’s cinematography, Sreejith Sarang’s editing and Gokul Das’s production design give Kumari the necessary features of a chitrakatha (graphic story).

Jakes Bejoy’s background score blends well with the scenes but the tracks don’t stay with the audience. The use of Thyagaraja’s ‘Brova Barama’ (Am I such a burden?) in the scene where Kumari is sent off to her husband’s home after marriage is a brilliant work of creativity. But then the film has a dearth of such moments of creativity.

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Kumari Srimathi Review: Nithya Menen Is Charming In This Well-Written Tale About Empowerment

Director: Gomtesh Upadhye

Writers: Uday Aghamarshan, Jayanth Tadinada, Kaushik Subrahmanya, Srinivas Avasarala

Cast: Nithya Menen, Gauthami, Thiruveer, Talluri Rameshwari

Duration: 7 episodes, 282 minutes

Available on: Amazon Prime Video 

A sense of playfulness in Kumari Srimathi is apparent just with its title. Nithya Menen ’s name, Kumari Srimathi, is not just a delightful oxymoron (Kumari means young unmarried woman, and Srimathi means married woman), but one that depicts the leading woman’s struggles in the series.  

Menen plays an unmarried woman in her thirties in the Prime Video series. She lives in a village near the Godavari River. We are talking about a neighbourhood where a job is what defines a man and marriage is what defines a woman. When we first see Srimathi, she is chided by her mother Devaki ( Gautami ) for not getting married. In return, she casually asks her for tea and gets ready to go to work. When she goes to functions, she is questioned by the women. When she goes to the government offices, she is mocked for her name. But Srimathi is selfish and adamant. All she wants is to win back her ancestral house from her uncle, only after which she will get married.

Creator Srinivas Avasarala never gets preachy about this. Instead, the series is sprinkled with humour that makes us look past the seriousness of what Srimathi is going through, while also understanding the issues from her perspective. One of the many ways the writers infuse humour is through Devaki, who is constantly worried about her daughter. When in fear, Devaki begins to daydream with nightmares. For instance, when she sees her daughter go out with a drunkard one day, she dreams of the guy asking her daughter for liquor and side dishes on their first night. But Devaki is a strong single mother. She runs her own catering business and has single-handedly raised both her daughters, while also taking care of her mother-in-law. When the court intimates that Srimathi can buy her ancestral house if she manages to pay ₹39 lakhs to her uncle in six months, she decides to let go of her job and start a business. Srimathi wants to start a restobar in her village near the Godavari River.

Hearing a small-town woman suddenly come up with the idea of opening a bar might sound odd, and it especially does to her mom. A lot of it comes back to how a woman can do this. When Srimathi fights in court for years, Devaki reminds her of her gender and asks what she can possibly achieve alone. Even when people mock her that no one would want to marry a woman who owns a bar, she is unbothered. The beauty of the series lies in the way it depicts the relationship between women from three generations. If we saw the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law talk about sex in Sweet Kaaram Coffee, here, Devaki’s mother-in-law (played by Talluri Rameshwari) tells her she could have gone to a bar in her early days if only she had known how beautiful it looked.

Kumar Srimathi is a very simple and predictable tale. We can all guess if she'd repay the amount. The “how” of it becomes familiar as well. Yet the writing and staging keep us engaged with breezy conversations and humour, and you do not mind overlooking these cinematic liberties. This is especially true when it comes to its character building. For instance, Kumari’s struggle to get her bar licence isn’t as exciting as how her entire inner circle rallies to be by her side when she deals with a minor setback. 

There is also a certain maturity you notice in her romance with Abhinav (a pilot in South Africa, played by Thiruveer). They constantly hang out with each other, dropping hints along the way. But finally, when they confess, they jump straight into the topic of marriage and the possibility of shifting to a different country. Similarly, throughout the series, we see Srimathi admire films of Nani, and we get a sweet payoff towards the end. But where the writing falters the most is when it introduces a twist in the end that feels half-baked. The film also has a very meek antagonist — Kumari’s uncle, played by Prem Sagar Rajulapati. But in a simple tale about life, where the only problems are money and marriage, do you need a bigger villain?

Kumari Srimathi mostly makes use of the web series format. It focuses on the little details of Kumari’s daily life, lending it a lived-in feel. That doesn’t mean the series never feels stretched. But whenever it does, Nithya Menen, who radiates Shobana’s charm from Thiruchitrambalam (2022), wins back our attention. The series could also be seen as a study of Kumari’s family of women, which unfortunately lets us know very little about the men in the show. But for a series spinning entirely on a single woman's marriage, it has an unconventional ending. And that feels like a win.

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