‘Ullozhukku’: Much-Awaited Malayalam Movie Now on OTT. Directed by Christo Tomy, ‘Ullozhukku’ is a box-office hit that is creating buzz in the Malayalam film industry. After winning the initial audience response in cinemas, the film is now streaming on Amazon Prime Videos.
Ullozhukku (2024) Movie Details
| Director | Christo Tomy |
| Cinematography | Shehnad Jalal |
| Music | Sushin Shyam |
| Producer | Ronnie Screwvala, Honey Trehan, Abhishek Chaubey |
| Production | MacGuffin Pictures, RSVP |
| OTT Platform | Amazon Prime Video |
| OTT Release Date | 2024-09-02 |
Ullozhukku Story Line
‘Ullozhukku’ or ‘Undercurrent’ is a sensible story about the complex and poignant relation between a widowed Malayali woman, Leelamma, and her daughter-in-law, Anju. It speaks about love, secrecy, and endurance that captures the emotional webs of family relations. Urvashi brings out the role of Leelamma with depth and nuance; on the other hand, Parvathy Thiruvothu is simply brilliant in the role of the support of the emotional narrative as Anju, a lady who is in the grip of a secret.
Cast and Crew
- Urvashi as Leelamma
- Parvathy Thiruvothu as Anju
- Arjun Radhakrishnan as Rajeev
- Alencier Ley Lopez as George
- Veenah Naair as Sister Rosamma
It comes after the much-appreciated documentary, ‘Curry & Cyanide,’ ‘Ullozhukku’ is the maiden directorial venture of Christo Tomy. The music, orchestrated by Sushin Shyam, works out the emotional landscaping of the characters while Shehnad Jalal’s camera captures them in real and raw frames. The script is flawlessly edited by Kiran Das.
Critical
Ullozhukku has been lauded as a film that has presented familial relationships and ordeals of the same with reality. However, the themes it touches upon are love, secrecy, and most importantly, resilience, and the exceptional camaderie that it has in the film resonated with most to make it out of the box in recent Malayalam cinema. The exceptional camaraderie between Urvashi and Parvathy Thiruvothu is one of the great positives that the film carries, since their portrayal of the on-screen relationship looks deep and sound.
Ullozhukku OTT Release
Fans had regrettably missed its theatrical run and waited for an OTT release at least, which finally happened on Amazon Prime Video. With the movie hitting the latest streaming site, ‘Ullozhukku’ has been receiving loads of love and appreciation from viewers around the world. Allowing the movie on such a popular streaming platform means it wins too many hearts and goes on to cement its place furthermore in the list of notable works in Malayalam cinema.
Conclusion
‘Ullozhukku’ is one film an appreciator of good cinema will not want to miss. Perfect performances, a killer storyline, but more than that, beautiful camerawork strings the film to capture the multi-dimension complexities of human relationships. This directorial debut of Christo Tomy is an enlightenment of igneous magic of narrating process that exists in Malayalam cinema.