Kammara Sambhavam - Released DVD Today @ Flowers TV

That age old saying, 'A lie can travel half way round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes’ is one of the biggest truths of the time. Even if the real stories manage to make a delayed, happening entry, there is no guarantee that they get the deserved attention either. Rathish Ambat’s 'Kammara Sambhavam' starts off with the age old words of Napoleon, as to how our history too, is often a bunch of lies. Through an interesting tale of a cockeyed hero, it tries to show an elaborate execution of the same, making every ounce of reality ‘rest in peace.’

Though a small-time political party, the members of ILP have an elaborate agenda in mind. However, what they lack is a heroic ancestor to trace their past to and some interesting bits of history. To achieve the same, they decide to throw in what they have in abundance – money, and shape up everything from zilch. They do the ground work, meet the right people, put everything together and even bank well on the outcome for their true aim, and how does it all ultimately benefit them? 'Kammara Sambhavam’ is a timeline of all these events. 

Linking politics and cinema, ‘Kammara Sambhavam’ has a spanking plot, that cleverly disguises a lesson on history and it touches many right notes too. The movie is a visual treat and has a big canvas, which takes you from one page of the story to another as in a story book. It has something more sophisticated than a standard satirical tale. The first half and second half, which progress through different timelines, are both intermeshed well and the social commentary and history flit smoothly from past to present. Dileep hasn’t tried anything so starkly different before and all lead actors give a decent performance. 

The movie begins to spiral downwards post intermission as in a matter of few scenes; one can easily guess what it will all turn out to be. And what it suffers from the most is the length – 3 hours, 2 minutes! Instead of being enthralled in action, all one would end up doing is wonder when it will be done and it hardly helps in enjoying the film. The movie has a good-enough ending but not something that’s so smart to justify such an extended run time. It’s evident that Siddharth, for whom it is the debut Malayalam movie, has put in humongous hard work to get his dubbing right. However, when someone with a hard-core Malayali name like Othenan speaks with a half-baked Malayalam diction, it comes off as a little odd and one tends to focus more on the effort he takes to pronounce words right, rather than the character or acting.