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| Naslen, Mamitha, Sangeeth & Akhila |
Girish A. D. is a god of small things. Third in his series of coming of age movies flavored with dashes of rom-com spice, Premalu is a light entertainer/chick-flick with an immensely like-able young cast. The director Girish A.D threads together a narrative from nothing but stringing together tiny pearls from everyday life, just like he he had done in his two previous directorial outings - Thanneermathan Dinangal(transl - Watermelon Days, 2019) and Super Sharanya(2022.) Both of which were also utterly delightful. |
| Shyam Mohan & Mamitha Baiju |
The script, the framing of the scenes and even seemingly inconsequential dialog between the characters bring out the depth of observation of the movie's creator. While it is a run of the mill trope of boy-meets-girl from a slightly different social milieu, it is the attention to detail and impeccable casting that makes Premalu a winner.
Naslen K. Gafoor, Mamitha Baiju, Sangeeth Prathap, Shyam Mohan playing the four main characters steal the show. The only badly developed character (the director or writer's fault, not the actor's) is Mathew portrayed by Mathew Thomas, which was a comic exaggeration of someone on the spectrum.
It is an urban film relatable to majority of the newer generation film-goers in India - maybe you have lived in a different city with room mates for your first job, maybe you went to an engineering college outside your hometown and fell in love with a girl and it didn't work out as you had planned, maybe you worked in a software company for your first job, maybe even after four years of college you still remained an aimless kite, maybe you will find something of yourself in this movie, maybe you won't. Just sit back and enjoy the show.
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