Pigman

After a 'Thakarachenda' that was much discussed in film festivals, director Avira Rebecca has now come up with a 'pigman' - a look at the current socio-economic issues of kerala. A movie which discuss the plight of an ordinary man finding it difficult to live with the norms of an nonreactive society around him, the movie but offers little in terms of entertainment, nor it ends up as a very meaningful attempt in film making.

Jayasuriya is Sreekumar in the movie, a post graduate in Malayalam doing research leading to doctorate on the 'nuances of tribal music and language'. Currently in his fourth year , he is soon to submit his final thesis for assessment. But his guide Dr. jayalekshmy(Reena Basheer) is quite unhappy with him as Sreekumar has resisted her physical advances. Now she has decided to take revenge and talks low about his thesis in the open defence. Sreekumar, who is asked to resubmit, is quite frustrated and throws his shoes on his guide, which results in him being expelled from the college.

Now devoid of any scholarships to support him, Sree coming from an moderate family with their share of bank loans and debts is extremely in need of another job to survive. His close friends Sneha(Ramya Nambeeshan) helps him to find one in the big pig farm situated near her village. Sree joins as a purchase manager , but his reactive nature to ill- happenings around him in the farm makes him the sour eye of the GM Veera mani(Baburaj) and the veterinary doctor Daniel(Suraj). He is soon expelled from the job and is forced to take up the role of a helper in the pig farm. How he lives a sadistic life with the animals forms the rest of the plot.

The movie discusses many social aspect s and indeed it is rare in recent times to see one movie that tell the lives of middle class men, in such seriousness. But Avira has lot the charm of the basic plot by R Prabhakaran, resorting to traditional mode of film making , which unfolds reasonably slow and without needed...