Vedikettu review: A saga which eventually loses momentum

Entertainment

By Arjun Ramachandran

February 4, 2023

Vedikettu is a loud movie with furious people in two neighbouring villages fighting each other for silly reasons, based mostly on caste differences.

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Love, comedy, folk songs, temple festivals, weddings, fights, and stalking are some of the flavours added to the movie to make it a popular cinema.

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Vedikettu is directed by Bibin George and Vishnu Unnikrishnan, both actor-scriptwriters. Chaos exists throughout the film.

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The script gives importance largely to loud dialogue followed by a background score to make the audience sit through the movie.

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Multiple layers are explored in the movie, but everything is incomplete. Many characters, lots of incidents, twists and turns, tragedy, and finally, a message is delivered.

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Vedikettu talks strongly about casteism but diverts to different subjects making it less impactable on the sensitive topic.

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There isn’t a proper connection between many scenes. Even in comedy scenes, continuation to an earlier scene comes just before the climax.

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It is an instant package with a runtime of 2 hours 38 minutes. The climax is important but the journey to reach that point was a tedious one.

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The script has given innumerable instances for the directors to perform. And they both did their roles very well.

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The songs are rendered by a bunch of new singers. They are all good, especially folk songs.

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The two villages, the life of common people, and the backwaters, all are captured superbly by Ratheesh Ram.

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