![]() It's just another patriarchal household where newlywed women get a warm welcome and have no clue about the overwhelming darkness that will soon engulf them. And once you realise that this is the same place where something terrible happened a while back - an incident depicted in the film's prologue - you anticipate many chilling eventualities. ![]() ![]() When Kumari first arrives at the front gate of her spouse Dhruvan's (Shine Tom Chacko) ancestral mansion, it is nighttime, and the place, although abundantly lit, exudes an air of menace. I see Aishwarya Lekshmi's titular protagonist as a Malayali version of the main character from Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca simply because she is married off to a family tormented by a dark history. There is no attempt from one to overshadow the other. Powered by a heavily folklore-influenced narrative that bears elements of a gothic horror story or a monster feature, Kumari is one of those films with all its departments well-balanced. ![]()
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