Padma Movie Review: An engaging take on a modern-day marriage

Overview: Love lies within the small gestures, is an age outdated saying in married life. What occurs when a relationship knowledgeable and divorce specialist forgets to observe what he preaches in his personal life?

Anoop Menon’s debut directorial Padma speaks concerning the intricacies of marital bonds, which is a melange of affection, romance, lust, intercourse, belief, understanding, acceptance and caring within the modern situation. The protagonists Padma (Surabhi Lakshmi) and Dr Ravi (Anoop Menon) are polar opposites. Born and introduced up in rural Kerala, Padma is much less affected by the materialistic gimmicks of the city world. Whereas, Ravi is making an attempt arduous to combine with metropolis life, which embody complexes on accents, model consciousness and Anglican slavery.

The energy of their seemingly okay marriage is questioned when Padma takes an surprising step of their relationship. Will Padma, who needed to compromise her selections to find a accomplice, to the place she has to quiet down, endure the check of time?

The story is related on the earth of smartphones and the rat race, and throws mild on totally different fascinating elements of right now’s social realities in relationships. Nevertheless, it fails to anchor on a storyline. Although this the story of each Padma (spouse) right here, it’s nonetheless narrated by way of Ravi’s perspective. It provides the person’s perspective on modern-day girls. This consists of their ideas on a lady’s want in a relationship to concepts on magnificence.

Nevertheless, what makes it fascinating is Padma, who surprises within the story, enhanced by Surabhi’s refined expressions. Dinesh Prabhakar who seems in only one scene catches the viewers’s consideration as he provides one in every of his greatest performances to this point.

The director and the technical crew have managed to make a watchable movie. On this planet of political correctness, which is taken into account a barrier on the liberty of expression of artistes, it is excessive time for the scribes to suppose from at the very least from the perspective of the lead characters portrayed within the film – be it any gender.

This can be a modern-day film for husbands and wives who’ve forgotten to respect, acknowledge and take care of the little issues in life.
– Anjana George