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'Sara'S' review: Anchored by a powerful script, this simple film breaks the conventions of the feel-good template

Jude Anthany Joseph's third feature, after Ohm Shanti Oshana and Oru Muthassi Gadha, released on Prime Video at midnight today. This seemingly feel-good film, also seemingly made in limited spaces and with a shoestring budget, tackles a concept and issue never tested before in Malayalam cinema  circles. In Sara'S, we follow the life of Sara Vincent (Anna Ben), a young, bubbly, yet unapologetic filmmaker who struggles to make it big in the industry. She continuously assists male directors and is in the scripting works of her dream film. Sara has decided, from her school days, that she would not bear any kids. This is when she meets Jeevan (Sunny Wayne); her relationship with him subsequently brings her ideology and decision into a confrontation with the established norms of society, family and child-rearing.  Anna Ben in Sara'S The best aspect in which Sara'S has excelled, without doubt, is its hard-hitting taut script. Debutant Akshay Hareesh deserves praise for managin

Boyhood - a saga of picturesque metamorphosis

Boyhood  demonstrates the different phases of a boy's life, from 6 to 18; it turns into a tale of a metamorphosis from boyhood to manhood.   The film begins from 6-year old Mason Evans Jr.( Ellar Coltrane ) and travels through 12 years of the boy and his sister, Samantha Evans's ( Lorelei Linklater ) life. Patricia Arquette  plays Mason's mother, Olivia Evans, who moves in and out of marital relationships, while Ethan Hawke  plays the siblings' divorced  father. Every precious moments of a boy's life appear- birthday parties, graduation parties, family get-togethers, road trips, family meals, launch of a Harry potter book and other milestones.  The film doesn't point out that it is jumping to the next age. Such a transition is marked by the change in physical appearance in Mason and Samantha. Nevertheless, the physical, mental and psychological metamorphose of the siblings is the whole "coming-of-age" story about. A still from the movie. Pic