‘Ajagajantharam’ movie review: A mindless, sensory experience that revels in its violence

The tasteful manner in which some of the action sequences are staged often makes us forget all our million grouses with Tinu Pappachan’s film

When men bursting to the brim with their egos decide to fight each other, they don’t need a reason. When these men are in a film, they don’t need a script, nor the presence of a woman on the screen. That must have been how the initial discussions of Tinu Pappachan’s Ajagajantharam panned out — for that is exactly what takes place during the movie’s two hour-runtime.

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The whole narrative is set around the night of a pooram festival at a temple. The breathless pace of the movie is set right in these early sequences, when we switch between the fully-dressed up drama troupe who are arriving a little too late, the elephant and the team of mahouts who seem to be raring for a fight, the local goon and his gang of friends who are celebrating his birthday, and the happenings at a wedding party. One can sense the tension building up in each of these separate situations, and all of it heading to a collision course.