Meera had already watched the screener. “It’s not a movie,” she said, her voice low. “It’s an exorcism. There’s a ten-minute single shot where Madhavan applies his own chutti (makeup) while humming a forgotten raga. No dialogue. Just the sound of the brush and his breath. By the end, you feel like you’ve aged twenty years.”
Meera closed her notebook. Her review was due in an hour. “This week wasn’t about which film was better. It was about the range. Name another film industry in India that can release a meditative art film, a violent political satire, and a vérité documentary in the same seven days.” ott malayalam releases this week
This was the polar opposite of Ormakalude Tharattu . Where the first film was quiet and introspective, Pattabhishekam was loud, violent, and outrageously funny. The plot: Two rival political factions in a fictional North Kerala district fight over the inheritance of a defunct lottery ticket agency. Fahadh played a cynical, chain-smoking political secretary named Bhadran, while Kunchacko played a former child prodigy turned reluctant gangster named Sunny. Meera had already watched the screener