This offbeat film is inspired from a spate of acid attacks against women, and gender-based violence. A powerful concept which gradually builds up a forceful storyline and characters, through remarkable performances. The entire film is an understated elegance. Each scene, frame, dialogue and gesture has been scripted strongly and is presented and expressed in a subtle and effective way. It is a rare combination of a powerful story, script, direction, editing and acting.
The music and poetic lyrics are again outstanding and arresting and well translated in English in subtitles. The depth of words and the sweetness of music compels you to dwell on them for a long time.
About 40% dialogues are in English and for rest subtitles are there. Apart from this, it has a very efficacious promo as I would not have seen this “Malayalam film”but for the promo that hooked me immensely. (I am from Hindi speaking belt of India)
Uyare, reminded me of Raj kapoor’s blockbuster SSS. (Satyam Shivam Sundaram). Though a blockbuster, SSS never impressed me even then in 1978, perhaps because the true meaning of “Satyam Shivam Sundaram” is very hard to be expressed with in the parameters of commercially viable creative pursuits. The commonality in both the films is about the disfiguration of the protagonist's face and her acceptability of this disfiguration to her ownself and within in the social system.
If compared to Raj Kapoor’s magnum opus, Uyare is a much closer depiction of the larger than life vedic concept of Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Truth, Love and Beauty, “Sat-Chit-Anand,” or “Truth-Consciousness-Bliss, from Svetasvatara Upanishad) and certainly is of much more relevance.
This unconventional film is DEFINITELY WORTH SPENDING TWO ENGAGING HOURS that deeply stimulate the senses and the mind, clearing many stereotyped cobwebs. It breaks many already set boundaries in multiple ways. Concept and theme goes much beyond the social relevance and the survival story.
The film is proof that true artistry goes beyond the boundaries of language and culture, etc.
The film is now showing on NETFLIX.
Uyare (transl. Rise) is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by Manu Ashokan (in his directorial debut), written by Bobby & Sanjay and produced by the sister-trio Shenuga, Shegna, and Sherga. The film stars Parvathy Thiruvothu, Asif Ali, and Tovino Thomas. The music of the film was composed by Gopi Sundar while the lyrics were written by Rafeeq Ahammed. Cinematography Mukesh Muraleedharan. Edited by Mahesh Narayan
Release date: 26 April 2019. Running time: 125 minutes. CountryI: India
-Meena Chopra
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