Seven Seas of Despair

Sandalwood makes a handful of good movies in a (good) year and this is one of them. Nevertheless I could notice a little of their incompetence in the beginning (bad sound mixing, poor dialogue).

The rest of the movie is marvelous. All technical aspects were admirable—cinematography, music, writing. The last part was truly a surprise.

The symbolism majorly consists of two symbols—Singing (for hope), and Water (for despair). Any incident that turns the protagonists life worse…

Enraging

Trigger warning: Sexual assault

The first half of the movie was uncomfortable to watch and makes one wonder if the SA angle was really necessary. Halfway through the second half, it becomes clear that the crux of movie is that men are horrible people and it is excellently driven home by showing how they react when someone reports SA.

The layered fashion in which each male character is revealed to be monstrous is wonderful but drawing parallels to 12…

From Being Earnest, to being earnest

I set out to watch this film thinking I'll definitely hate it. What caught me by surprise is the way the father-daughter relationship is shown. My eyes welled up by the end of the first song. It was the earnestness of the relationship that almost had me envying that child.
This coupled with phenomenal music makes one ignore the all flaws in writing (e.g. beginning of love track, vanishing trauma, and the heroine's mother…