The young director contended he had used colour to convey social discrimination, because it is more visible. But when one the five friends, a dark-skinned man, perhaps belonging to a lower religious caste, is caught, he has no means of escaping punishment, which is utterly unjust and cruel.” And shocking, to say the least. “In the game which is played out in my film, when the cop finds the king guilty of a crime, a way is found out of this messy situation through bribery. Sasidharan averred that he had shown two of India’s most pressing problems: corruption and discrimination against dark skinned people as well the society’s downtrodden. We are playing our own games within the ambit of the Constitution.” We have a wonderful Constitution, which encourages us to change our mindset.
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“I have through my movie tried to draw a parallel between India’s political system and the game that the five men play. “An Off-Day Game talks about power play,” Sasidharan told this writer in the course of an interview at Panaji. Watch the trailer of Ozhivu Divasathe Kali here:īut above all, it is a film that is loaded with meaning and message. Many layered and crisply narrated, the movie is often compelling, despite a couple of sequences that need trimming. A game they had played as kids, which in their adulthood, appears all too menacing, sans the innocence of childhood.Ī film - based on a best-selling short story of Malayalam writer R Unni - An Off-Day Game, is deeply provocative exploring issues like political corruption, caste prejudices and colour discrimination. Till, of course, the movie begins to get into a sinister mood with the drinking men starting to play a game with deathly ramifications. Read: Dhilluku Dhuddu review | Santhanam loses out in the ghostly mishmash One of them gets slapped in the bargain and has to retreat in humiliation. Sasidharan takes us into little alleyways of male behavioural pattern where two of the pals try to get the woman’s attention, which she steadfastly refuses. One of the men is so livid that he walks out of the bungalow in pouring rain - till the others chase him, cajole him for many minutes before he agrees to return to what threatens to become a terribly tragic party. There are other arguments that keep the group exercised, allegations and counter-allegations, providing both a pastime and cause for rancour. Read: Sexy Durga, a new film by Kerala director Sasidharan takes us into little alleyways of male behavioural pattern where two of the pals try to get the woman’s attention, which she steadfastly refuses. Finally, two of the men overcome their moral dilemma, and butcher the bird. The men argue about who would kill the rooster, the cook shrugging off that responsibility. As the men begin to drink and get tipsier, a woman cooks food, essentially chicken. A classic buddy movie, it has a slow start, but gives us ample opportunity to understand that this is no ordinary adventure which five grown up men have in a desolate bungalow.Īs the film begins to unfold, the first images are of an election campaign in Kerala, known for its overly political atmosphere where matters of the state are as important and intrinsic as, let us say, brushing one’s teeth.Īs a multitude of political parties end their cacophonous crusades through the streets of the city, five friends, taking advantage of the poll-day holiday retreat to the bungalow, armed with a liberal supply of liquor. Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s Ozhivu Divasathe Kali (An Off-Day Game) - which hits theatres in Chennai on Friday - was first screened at the National Film Development of India’s Film Bazaar in Goa’s Panaji in November 2015. Cast: Nisthar Sait, Baiju Netto, Girith Nair, Pradeep Kumar, Reju Pillai, Abhija Sivakala
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