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.
Kumari is one of those films with all its departments well-balanced. There is no attempt from one to overshadow the other. It’s rich with details, revealing more intriguing characters and backstories as it progresses.
Based on a 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
It’s rich with details, revealing more intriguing characters and backstories as it progresses
Kumari’s central idea fits comfortably in the numerous scary stories our mothers and grandmothers had narrated to us.
Ranam was on par with a Hollywood film in terms of technical finesse, but Kumari seems more wholesome
The film comes out at a time when another film based on Hindu myths and rituals (Kantara)
