C U Soon Movie Review: C this soon

C U SoonOn Amazon Prime VideoDirector Mahesh NarayananCast Fahadh Faasil Darshana Rajendran Roshan MathewRatingAmazon Prime Video has the Xray feature that lights up if you touch your handheld device while watching content on it This is when you can see the castcredits and other info about an ongoing sceneI pressed that invisible screen on occasion while watching this picture on my phone mdash inevitably taking notes on another screen and minor breaks in between mdash responding to messages on Facebook Twitter Gmail WhatsApp since its a working dayThis film in turn is set entirely inside multiple screens on laptops and phones swiftly switching between Google Meet and various other text and videocalling services It starts out on the dating app Tinder Which means it is about a relationship that rapidly develops online between a man Roshan Mathew and a woman Darshana RajendranThe latter delivering the finest performance Ive seen in a movie lately The former starred as the male lead in Anurag Kashyaps last film Choked on Netflix But this isnt typically speaking a romance The boy knowing little about the girl feels like he should just marry her Because why notThe film is a suspensethriller on what happens thereafter I have intentionally got you interested with the logline The reason most film buffs have gravitated towards this film anyway is Fahadh Faasil mdash widely regarded as the most interesting Indian working actor at the momentHis last release Trance 2020 was also an equally novel take on powerful televangelists Reviewing which I tried to place Faasil in the pantheon of mainstream Hindi cinema mdash perhaps holding a placestature somewhere between Aamir Khan and Ayushmann Khurrana in terms of scripts he picks and backs Hes probably the currentday MohanlalWatch the trailer of C U Soon hereIf you had moviebuff Mallu friends growing up in the 90s you could never hear the end of mdash you aint seen nothin yet if you aint seen Mohanlal of Malayalam cinema Thanks to the immeasurable access that diverse libraries on OTT platforms allow us yes we can see Faasils films and concurrently partake in universal fondness for a national talentYou watch Faasil all through C U Soon from an oddly topangle image taken from whats supposed to be his laptop camera Which is always switched on to capture his every move through mugshots This is partly because his character is always at work and going through videoconferences But mainly because it is the only way you can capture him in the movieThat is the way the screenplay has been drafted to make sure not a single scene occurs between actors and a regular camera handledplaced before them The story only motions through a series of shots scenes and sequences taking place on screens of various peoples communication devices mdash as you get to the bottom of a mystery after it has been neatly set upTo search for its obvious inspiration you neednt go further than Aneesh Chagantys Searching 2018 But thats just the treatment if you may And this is in that sense a tough movie to write and direct mdash solidly attempted and pulled off by Mahesh Narayanan mdash wherein so much of the script rests on its structure aloneSure thats true for all writing Whats different is the claustrophobic environment this one operates on mdash with no space for time and scene transition exposition Dont want to bore you with cheap jargon What Im essentially suggesting is this is how documentaries especially post socialmedia can be If youve seen Asif Kapadias Amy 2015 youll know what I meanThe toughest part is to do it without any scrolls and explanatory voiceovers As this film does getting a bit gimmicky and overstating its purpose only in its dyingfinal minutes make that the last halfhourWere all leaving behind incredible amounts of digital datafootprints in any case mdash enough to build a biopic from scratch What this script also touches upon is how much of our lives can be easily accessed by private individuals if theyve got the chops and tricks to do it Faasils character plays a techgeek orchestrating the whole film in seemingly realtimeNot that we needed further proof than the ongoing Sushant Singh Rajput death case playing out through a series of WhatsApp chats alone Thats been the drama weve been hooked to locked up at homes in the times of COVID19 mdash essentially switching from one screen to the other starting from Zoom chat for work to television or tablet in bed before sleep and the cellphone all through in betweenYoull therefore appreciate the setting of C U Soon like never before mdash diving deeper and deeper still into screens within your screen making this is an Inception of sorts See this soon or whenever youve had some digital detox God knows we all should Writing this having just shifted from my phone to the laptop and going back to the phone again Catch you soon Have to find myself firstKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip 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C U Soon Movie Review: C this soon

C U Soon
On: Amazon Prime Video
Director: Mahesh Narayanan
Cast: Fahadh Faasil, Darshana Rajendran, Roshan Mathew
Rating:

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C U Soon
On: Amazon Prime Video
Director: Mahesh Narayanan
Cast: Fahadh Faasil, Darshana Rajendran, Roshan Mathew
Rating: