Su From So film assessment: JP Thuminad delivers a refreshing and hilarious horror comedy

Very few movies seize your consideration from the primary body. In Su From So, after a jumpscare, a loss of life is introduced, and your complete village within the coastal Karnataka area gathers for elaborate mourning rituals and a feast that follows it. Debutant director JP Thuminad (the actor who performed Deepak in SSE Side B) establishes the backdrop and its individuals with a mild music. S Chandrasekaran’s cinematography attracts you into the picturesque setting.

Music is the heartbeat of Su From So, a refreshing horror comedy. Unheralded composer Sumedh Okay and Sandeep Tulasidas, who has scored the BGM, elevate the a number of moods with their good work. Director JP Thuminad’s beneficiant use of songs to drive the narrative ends in an emotional manipulation, albeit in a great way.

The film begins with goofy enjoyable, and it helps when you might have humorous, charming actors akin to Shaneel Gautham, Prakash Thuminad, and Deepak Rai Panaje exuding vibrant vitality to the narrative with their good comedian timing. Actor-filmmaker Raj B Shetty, who backed the movie beneath his banner, has nice enjoyable essaying a parodical character. The movie fortunately, doesn’t get diminished to a collection of comedic sketches, because the plot kicks in on the proper time.

It’s difficult to debate the central plot with out revealing essential particulars. The spoiler-free description of the battle is that the villagers face a Herculean job to drive away a spirit, named Sulochana, from Someshwara (therefore the title), that has possessed a teenager named Ashoka (JP Thuminad). The director derives comedy from a wide range of ridiculous reactions and zany conditions. He additionally deploys observational humour, highlighting eccentric characters (just like the one performed by Pushparaj Bolar) whom you miss with no eager eye.

Apart from having loads of scenes that mix humour with supernatural occasions, Su From So has standalone comedy sequences to generate the massive laughs. JP Thuminad’s management over the style is so sturdy that we don’t thoughts these scenes, even when they barely delay the subsequent flip within the story.

In the ultimate act, JP Thuminad resists the urge to be particular to a juicy style, which lets you go to any lengths to supply the thrills. He as a substitute, treads a singular path, transferring deftly strikes from severe territory with out making us really feel the load of it, and wraps it up as a horror comedy with a giant coronary heart.

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Male characters flood the frames in Su From So. Yet, the movie reaches its pinnacle when it tells a stirring story of a girl (Sandhya Arakere in an affecting efficiency) combating patriarchy. The movie, which begins with phrases of excessive reward for the exterior great thing about villages, delves deep into its inner filth, the mindset of males who cease ladies from expressing themselves. This tonal shift isn’t jarring as Su From So ends on a rousing notice, sustaining the reassurance of a high quality movie until the very finish.

Su From So is at present working in theatres