Varathan starts out by showing Fahadh Faasil lose his job in Dubai. Then, Aishwarya Lekshmi tells him that she had a miscarriage. Both of them seem to take these serious things lightly at first, but slowly, we see that they did take it seriously. These ten minutes of their life in Dubai that we see basically explains Fahadh Faasil's understanding of Aishwarya Lekshmi's issue throughout the entire movie.
It wasn't just Fahadh and Aishwarya's story told in the movie, and I liked that because it was made the story more interesting and the character's more complex. The movie was showing how Jithin, Josey, and Johnny are impacting the innocent people, like Abin and Priya, and Preman and Sandra, in their village. These characters were vulnerable because of their situations AND their personalities, which was kinda like a double dhamaka.
When Fahadh Faasil went to go tell the three men to stop their singing, they offered him a drink. He initially resisted, but then he felt that he should accept it because they were nice about stopping their singing. Later, when he went to their house to discuss about the phone, he didn't want to create such a fuss about it because there was a marriage going on, and he didn't want to ruin the atmosphere. Because of Fahadh's attitude towards these serious issues, Aishwarya Lekshmi starts to think that Fahadh won't believe what she says, which I thought made the previous scenes of Fahadh seem pretty clever.
There were even smaller things that made the movie more whole, like the blowtorch, night vision goggles, and the fight/defense moves. If the blow torch wasn't shown earlier, with the cake scene, we would've just seen it as something random rather than a small twist. It wasn't just added "just like that". It was added purposefully and properly into an important scene. The same thing happened with the night vision goggles. Making some of the shots inside the house look like we were watching through a CCTV camera was quite smart to build suspense, without having the characters speak too much about what was going on.
Go through the gallery of images below and you’ll see what I mean.
The one thing that I felt was quite unnecessary was the explanation of them being with some gang or something at one point. It was pretty useless, and it never came back to help them later, unlike the night vision goggles or the blowtorch.
In the end, though, the director, Amal Neerad, manages to draw you into a sketchy world and how Abin and Priya survive through it all.
TIP: Don't watch this under the impression that it's a horror movie, because I read somewhere that this was horror and that is by no means true. It's a thriller, not a horror.
Also, the characters kinda reminded me of Ajith’s Vaali. Aishwarya kept trying to explain the issue to Fahadh just like how Simran tried telling Ajith about his creepy twin.
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