The camera sometimes dances, showing its flexibility, but its distracting allure is limited to the scenes where not much is happening - like the 360-degree tracking shot when Antony and Vijay are introduced to the entire cyber cell, with the camera, seemingly moving through small crevices in the latticework to close its dance-loop. It’s the kind of logical, economic writing that you know was organized and discussed on a white board. It’s tightly written to produce doubt at every step, packed into economic sequences with clear eyed editing, fluid cinematography and a sledgehammer-like tense background score.Īntony has a love track that foregrounds the narrative (with the only looming female presence in the film), while Vinay has a tragic family story which gets seeded in the beginning to be masterfully unraveled towards the end. Each suspect visited feels like the last suspect and when they get further information, the next suspect feels like the last suspect. The first victory of the film, then, is that this motion never feels tiring or repetitive. The chase often threads itself across more than 5 suspects, and so each suspect is visited, interrogated, and used to mine next steps. The chase is always meandering, swerving from one suspect to the next to the next. Thus begins the first of three big chases throughout the 2.5-hour movie. But both Antony and Vinay walk into their office noting with evidence that the original illegal stream came not from New Zealand but Kerala. The Cyber Cell of Kochi had written off the case because their suspect was in New Zealand where piracy isn’t illegal. They find an excuse around the controversy of Premem’s piracy. It’s only a matter of being recognized for the same. They are certainly intelligent, intuitive, and capable of using their knowledge of technology and metadata analysis to do good, do better. To prove to others that they have a worth, and to prove to oneself that the worth they once imagined for themselves can be realised. This job is both to secure oneself financially and emotionally. They want a stable job, worthy of the decades of pain endured of searing sentences and concepts into their memory. Both have completed their B-Tech, given a slew of mug-up-spit-up examinations, and yet, like the many flailing engineering educated youth in the oversaturated job market, find themselves unemployed or underemployed. But Operation Java, which had a theatrical release in Kerala in February this year, now streaming on Zee5, breaks with conventions of the thriller genre so easily, so effortlessly, it takes you a while to reorient yourself to figure out exactly what kind of movie you are actually watching?Īt the heart of it are two friends Antony George (Balu Varghese) and Vinay Dasan (Lukman Avaran). Certainly, it is odd to call a thriller ‘charming’, an adjective usually plonked alongside the romance side of genres.
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