Joseph
The story of a man with a scar
This is basically a story about a man called Joseph who lost his daughter, divorced his wife and had to investigate the death of his most loved one.
Lost everything in life, he doesn't have any goal as such. Just want to drink a lot and smoke a lot and live like an unwanted being and die one day. Higher officials approaching him for solving the case within very less time even after his retirement from the department is the only time when he is felt important. But the credit is always taken by other officers even those times when he served the department. Although that was not at all his concern.
I personally think that Mr.Joju had done the role exceptionally well by rendering subtle expressions. During his old age even his way of expressing feeling lazy. He never smiles totally unlike his friends. The only time he smiled was when he spends time with them drinking and singing.
A scene which instigated an amazement in me is the one when he imagines the accident scene standing on a tea stall and with the sound of the bang, there is a subtle expression of shock perfectly matching with background sound. According to me, one should have tremendous years of experience to get it right with making it extra or less.
“God is there for the one whom nobody cares for... sir
Otherwise, after you beat me up like an animal I would not have sustained my life this long”.
This was the dialog before interval which conveyed a lot about the characters and movie altogether. Ajayan, an insecure orphan is played by Tovino Thomas is a character with very low self-esteem and considers himself not so powerful to deal with anyone. Other than the main character of the movie Ajayan and his story. The movie absolutely serves best for its theme i.e, “Irresponsibility could be dangerous to the society” or like late Stanlee said, “With great power comes great responsibility”.
Let us look into the story with the theme in mind
There is a bunch of characters responsible in nature to whatever they do like Chembammal, Jalaja and the protagonist Ajayan.
In fact, Ajayan gets close to Chambakammal after an incident which determines the level of responsibility he has for doing the job correctly. One morning, Ajayan comes to Chamabakammal’s house for taking idly for the hotel but finds nothing and with desperation to complete his work correctly he gets inside the house calling for Chambakammal. Though, this causes a conflict between them that day. Chambakammal slowly understands his character and shows motherly affection afterward.
This must have been the realization that Ajayan was an insecure boy craving for affection.
