Ivide Malayalam Movie Review

Ivide is a crime thriller/ socio drama starring Nivin Pauly, Prithviraj and Bhavana. The story happening in Atlanta the Olympics city is written by Ajayan Venugopal and is directed by Shyamaprasad.

Varun ( Prithviraj) was born orphan and was adopted by Blake family from Atlanta. Which resulted in his unique name and situations. Varun grew up with all issues of an adopted Indian kid in west – need to explain everyone that he was an orphan. And even as a police officer he continue to struggle with personal issues.

Krish Hebbar (Nivin) on the other hand hail from a tulu Brahmin family in Kerala. He also had a past of financial struggles in childhood. Which made him chase his dreams to be rich and establish himself to be someone important in world. He pulled an indian cooking oil company into multi billion software company with global presence.

Roshni Mathew ( Bhavana) moved to states as part of her studies and fell in love with Varun. Now she is ex wife of the police officer.

Varun continue to fight the trauma of his failed marriage. And their kid Trisha is the only link between Varun and Roshni. In this time of agony Varun is dragged into the investigation of a serial murder case.

Slowly the series of murders seems to be racially motivated. But at the same time Varun dig up some positive evidence connecting Krish with two of the victims.

On the other hand Krish use all his tactics to keep his alpha position in the company which he built by giving his blood and sweat. He is ready to go any extreme in pursuit of his dream.

Roshni who legt Varun on ground of his agressiv nature found Krish more and more desirable.

Now its a battle Varun play against Krish, Roshni and a serial killer – in whom only Varun believes as well as his own universe of private issues.

Ivide is more of social drama than a crime thriller which it claims. Once again Shyamaprasad brought an emerging theme to screen which very few can appreciate. Ivide shows the emerging affluent class of Asian migrants in the backdrop of Americans who lose their job and life on battle against cheap and efficient labour provided by Asian migrants.

For the very same reason very few of the audience might identify with the story and characters.

And somewhere in between Ivide lose the momentum. Even though the actors put up a wonderful show that fails to save the movie.

Eric Dickinson did the cinematography for the movie and offer vivid indoor scenes, but aerial shots are less than impressive – may be because I watch Hollywood too! Editing by Manon is impressive but brings you no miracles. Background score is also just satisfactory.

Ivide won’t quench your thirst to a watch thriller, but will satisfy if you want a socio drama involving NRIs.

	Director
		

				
					
					shyamaprasad  
				
			
	Story/Screeplay
		

				
					
					ajayan venugopalan 
				
			
	Producer
		

				
					
					s sajikumar 
				
			
	Studio
                

				
					
					dharmik films 
				
			


	Starring
                

				
					
					prithviraj sukumaran 
				
			
		

				
					
					nivin pauly 
				
			
 
		

				
					
					bhavana  
				
			
 
		

				
					
					aju varghese