The thrill missing in the Sound of the Boot

Nowadays Malayalam cinemas are also entering into the clichéd styles. Variety of stories and innovations in stories are missing. The recent released movie “The Sound of the Boot” is one of the examples.

Though Shaji Kailash, the director of the movie, is successful in maintaining the suspense, he is not able to provide the thrill that usually comes with a detective movie. Yes “The sound of the boot” has a murder mystery and revenge story.

Being a mystery movie with too many twists, it’s difficult to tell the whole scenes. Briefly to say the story… is…. The three cops and a daughter of one cop get murdered under the mysterious circumstances. An old man, a young man and two ladies are involved in these murders, which these facts are maintained as suspense. These murders are, in fact, done as a revenge for a murder of one lady by these cops during the emergency period on three decades ago. Meanwhile, Sidharth Mahadevan (Donned by Suresh Gopi) comes to investigate when first murder occurred. Even though he tries hard to solve the mystery, he couldn’t prevent other two murders to happen.

Suresh Gopi in the lead has executed his task perfectly. Being one of the three superstars in Malayalam Cinema he looks secured (comfortable) in his acting. Murali, as a young man on a mission of revenge, looks superb. Other than these there are not many worthy things to tell about the ‘…Boot’. The maintenance of the suspense is not natural. Few unnecessary insertions are done for the sake of suspense. Probably due to this fact the thrilling is missing in the movie.

Another major negative aspect of this Boot is the camera work. The camera moving make you sit uncomfortably instead of watching the suspense anxiously. Poor Camera work. Nonetheless, you have to watch the ‘boot’ for it’s simple appearance, where Suresh Gopi has shown controlled acting.