‘Nunakuzhi’ movie review: Jeethu Joseph’s comic film is a fast-paced fun film

A view from ‘Nunakuzhi’

If ever there was a ‘hyperbole measuring device’ on a film set, it would have been right around the maximum in many scenes of Jeethu Joseph’s film. NunakuzhiAlmost everything, including the acting, is louder than the usual limit. Still, for the kind of film it is, it’s pretty much okay.

Nunakuzhi The story unfolds with a series of lies and misdeeds, built on top of the previous lies. It all starts with a laptop that Income Tax officials seize during a raid at a company. Aby (Basil Joseph), who has reluctantly taken over the company after his father’s death, had stored some private videos on the laptop. It is unthinkable for Aby and his wife (Nikhila Vimal) to have the videos seen by anyone else, leading them to set out on a mission to track down the IT officer (Siddique).

His path crosses with Resmita (Grace Antony), who is going through a difficult divorce proceeding. Meanwhile, the body of a dentist lies in his clinic, with a woman locked in one of the rooms by mistake. In another parallel track, an aspiring filmmaker (Altaf Saleem) is in a script reading session with an arrogant film star (Manoj K Jayan). As expected, all these parallel tracks are bound to mix into a huge, confusing mix.

Jeethu Joseph, who hasn’t tried comedy for a while, goes all out in this movie. NunakuzhiK.R. Krishna Kumar, who had earlier written the screenplay for Jeethu’s film The 12th ManAnd CoomanComes with an evenly paced screenplay, where the one-liners keep coming. A good part of it works because of the fast-paced editing that keeps switching between all the parallel scenarios and the comic timing of the cast, be it young or experienced. For every joke that doesn’t work, there are two others that do. The story also has some thriller elements mixed with humour. Krishan Kumar must have had a great job of connecting the parallel scenarios seamlessly without any exaggeration.

Basil Joseph, as a man who refuses to grow up and falls into holes of his own making, plays to his strengths, though his performance is a little more forceful than usual. An extended ‘poison mixture’ scene with Grace Antony is a riot. Baiju Santhosh plays a police officer who is adept at tickling people. Though this is the kind of role we are used to seeing him play, he manages to bring an element of freshness to the table with his distinctive style of dialogue delivery. So does Siddique.

overall, Nunakuzhi It’s a fast-paced, fun story that proves that Jeethu Joseph is adept at more than just thrillers.

Nunakuzhi is currently running in cinemas