‘Jan-E-Man’ Malayalam movie review: Hits all the right notes with its inventive script

Filmmaker Chidambaram admirably takes the audience along on a roller-coaster ride of emotional highs and lows, which come relentlessly one after the other

When a tightrope walker manages to stroll across comfortably, despite the rope being not so easy to negotiate, one cannot but stand up and upload. Especially so, when it is a first-timer, which is the case with Chidambaram, who makes his filmmaking debut with Jan-E-Man, pulling off an admirable feat of balancing.

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Most often, filmmakers struggle to find the right balance when there are two or three conflicting emotional tones in the narrative. Here, the script is written in such a way that the tonal shifts from the humorous to the morbid takes place in almost every other scene, that would seem much easier to lose that balance. Yet, the makers, as well as the actors, not only manage to get it just right, they also take the audience along on a roller-coaster ride of emotional highs and lows, which come relentlessly one after the other.