ABOUT THE FILM
The movie tells the happenings in the life of three persons in a span of three days.Sathyanath, working in a pharmaceutical company, is a committed middle class man living with his simple dreams and desires. HIis routine includes daily to and fro travel on train from Nellayi to Ernakulam south, with his bunch of friends working in various firm in the city. One day he having fallen asleep in late night misses his hometown station. Waking up, he gets acquainted with Nandan Menon, an advocate by profession.
Adv. Nandan Menon is a social activist who is hell bend of evacuating a multinational company from the shores of Maranattukara, which is planning to displace thousands from the land for carrying on with their mineral sand mining activities.
His wife Anuradha, who is a visual media journalist, is away on an assignment covering up a news story that has been rocking the state, is presently engaged in exposing the nexus between home minister Thomas Chacko and the foreign companies. On the same night Sathynathan meet Nandhan Menon in the train Anuradha, is chased by the goons of the minister, and also gets alleged for a murder.
PERFORMANCE
Sreenivasan brings in ordinariness to his portrayal that’s quite effortlessly endearing. Dileep effectively underplays his role to perfection and this role in the film offers him some meat with a vengeance. Mamtha excels in her role of a journo, and in fact never ever creates a dull moment in her sequences. But the surprise package is Jagathy Sreekumar, with a very constraint act to live up to the role of a political megalomaniac.
OTHER ASPECTS
Debutant director Renjith Shankar’s film ‘passenger’ necessarily races in a lot of fresh air and ideas to the industry. The director himself also scripts it. The film, balanced well, though with a few loose ends, never quite loses the grip as the screenplay and protagonists talks only as much as is required. P Sukumar excellently does cinematography. Biji Bal in background scoring and Saburam in art direction also amuses the audience with their cleverness.
Passenger respects the age and times that have witnessed its making. It’s a film for today. And it smells of the real world from which you had taken a break.
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