In recent news, the Tovino Thomas starrer Adrishya Jalakangal, is quickly gaining notice, as he has been felicitated as the Best Actor at the Fantasporto International Film Festival, taking place in Portugal. Dr. Biju’s Adrishya Jalakangal is a movie that is sure to capture the minds of the audiences in a unique manner while leaving the answers to all the questions that arise to be answered by themselves.
This movie sketches the displacement, the terrible consequences of imminent war, and societal distaste with the perfect inculcation of surrealism. Tovino portrays an individual that is mentally challenged, and much like Dr. Biju’s other directorial ventures, his character does not have a name we can associate him with, which adds to the realism of things. In the movie he is shown being released from a mental asylum after a good while of having been a patient there. In his absence, a woman, played by Nimisha Sajayan, ends up setting up her home right next to the abandoned train bogey that he inhabits and the two end up forging a unique bond.
This is a methodically sound film, and it intertwines various impending themes effortlessly, addressing the concerns and the lives of the much more marginalised communities around us. This beautiful treat from Tovino, as well as the other venture of his that is doing its fair share of rounds at the moment, Anweshippin Kandethum, are both available to stream on Netflix.