Uyare

Uyare Story: Pallavi Raveendran is an aspiring pilot and is in love with Govind, who is highly possessive about her. She gets into an aviation academy with dreams to fly high. Will she manage to balance her relationship and her dreams?

Uyare Review: “It’s not over,” posts Pallavi Raveendran on her social media page after getting into the cockpit while trying hard to survive the scars as a result of a series of unfortunate events in her life. There is a gleam of hope in her eyes every time life pushes her into an abyss. Through Pallavi, Parvathy too tells us nothing can curb her passion towards her craft.

Since the age of 14, Pallavi has been dreaming of becoming a pilot. One day, when life was going smooth, she gets admission to an aviation academy. The catch is that her decisions in life are now mostly dependent upon her boyfriend Govind (Asif Ali)’s mood and his tantrums. Despite Govind’s indirect disapproval, she joins the course.

She finds it difficult to strike a balance between her passion and love. Her life and dreams come under trial when Govind takes revenge on her by attacking her with acid. In the flash of a second, that too soon after bagging her licence to fly, she becomes an acid attack victim. The rest is to do with her survival story.

Parvathy has managed to bring the tale alive with subtle and intense acting. Her body language and evolution from being an aspiring pilot to an acid attack survivor is very convincing and reinforces her position as a leading actor of our times. The scenes that bring out her relationship with her father (Sidhique) are beautifully scripted by Bobby-Sanjay and so well executed by the actors that viewers can’t watch these without their eyes getting moist.

Asif Ali’s interpretation of the undesirable Govind is in-depth. Anarkali Marikkar as Pallavi’s friend and the rest of the characters have also done their best. Tovino plays the confused Vishal, the aircraft company owner, whose life is dominated by his father.

Debutant director Manu Ashokan proves that he is a promising talent by giving Mollywood a technically perfect film. It showcases good music, editing and cinematography. Kudos to Boby-Sanjay, known for their flawless scripts, especially when it comes to character-oriented films. The only question that arises is whether the progression of the plot could have been more thorough, especially when it comes to the climax.

To conclude, this film has broken the stereotypical Mollywood formula of putting the superstar hero at the centre of a tale and making him find a way out of some trouble or the other. Here, we witness a heroine in the driver’s seat, cockpit rather, and both Parvathy and Uyare marking a successful landing.