Cast: Fahadh Fazil, Jayasurya, Biju Menon, Dulquer Salman, Nivin Pauly, Kavya Madhavan, Reenu Mathew

DVD Features:Dolby Digital 5.1,Anamorphic WideScreen,NTSC All Regions, English Subtitles

Director: Amal Neerad, Aashiq Abu, Anwar Rasheed, Sameer Thahir, Shyju Kahild

Producer: Amal Neerad

Production Co: Amal Neerad Productions

 

5 Sundarikal', the omnibus film comprising of five shorts directed by Anwar Rasheed, Amal Neerad, Aashiq Abu, Sameer Thahir and Shyju Khalid, handles the shift in styles and perspectives efficiently, evolving into a fine movie with full blooded characters and topnotch performances.

 

The tiny fingers that stick wedding announcement photographs from the newspaper on to the shabby pages of a notebook belong to Sethulekshmi (Anikha), a pretty girl who is yet to cross over to her teens. Along with her classmate (Chethan) who promises to let her into the secret behind a magic trick, she head over to a studio across the river banks, to get their photograph taken. Little do they realize, that the shutter click is all set to change their lives forever. Shyju Khalid's directorial debut 'Sethulekshmi' talks of bleeding bruises that are viciously clawed across the face of innocence. Shockingly brutal and extremely touching, I wouldn't mind watching '5 Sundarikal' time and again for this cinematic gem.