There are intricately and deliciously crafted details, interconnections and individual stories here. The above plot description may sound like a masala love story with an ensuing struggle among two families but this film is anything but formulaic. And then when Bobby from the first house falls in love with Baby from the second, what happens next forms the rest of the film.
This family seems ‘normal’ but it isn’t because Shammy is a toxic male bully.
This home is ‘proper’ and is rented out to foreigners as an AirBnB. On the other hand, in a second home, a smart and tidy Shammy lives with his wife, mother and sister-in-law Baby. They are poor, their home doesn’t even have a door, they live surrounded by garbage, they do not get along, they feel orphaned and blame each other. This is a seemingly dysfunctional family. The four of them do not share the same mother but they were all born to the same father, who has now passed away. They have a fourth brother - Bonnie, who visits sometimes. In a dilapidated home, brothers Saji, Bobby and Frankie live on an islet. For all the time I took to do so, I blame myself and my lack of non-Hindi-Indian-film watching experience. When I told my best friend that I’ve written a short film on the domestic violence in my childhood, he immediately asked me to watch a Malayalam Film he was shown while studying cinematography in SRFTI - ‘Kumbalangi Nights’.
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