​Anoop Menon lauds Jeo Baby’s ‘Kaathal - The Core’ starring Mammootty: Thank you from an ardent film lover for this mighty magnanimity

Actor-screenwriter-filmmaker Anoop Menon is all praise fro ‘Kaathal - The Core’ starring Mammootty. Directed by Jeo Baby’, ‘Kaathal - The Core’ is currently streaming on Prime Video, after its successful triumph at the theatres. The film revolves around a closeted gay man, played by Mammootty.
Anoop Menon took to his social media handle and praised the film and Mammootty’s boldness of taking on the project.In his note on Facebook, Anoop Menon said, “Saw KAATHAL. At a time where original malayalam cinema was stooping low to mindless masala fares of Telugu and Bollywood, the shockingly original director Jeo Baby with his amazingly talented writers Adarsh and Paulson has brought back the ethos and elegance that the likes of KG George, Padmarajan, Lohitadas, Bharathan and MT had bestowed on Malayalam cinema… Those films had made us what we are before the world…”


His note further reads, “Truly distinct… In Kaathal, how deftly these three handled such a delicate subject and handed it to a diverse and divided society... The love story of Mmathew and Omana transcends the physical… The track shot of mathew looking at the lonely kitchen after omana leaves is so painful and poignant… The one in which omana says "I am fighting for your love too" to Mathew leaves you spellbound by the brevity of intent… the background score and cinematography is seamless… the scene at the square where Mathew and Thankan meet amidst a sordid summer rain will go down as one of the most poetic moments in our cinema ever. And Mamukka, you will be remembered for eternity as the only actor who could straddle every possible kind of cinema with equal aplomb. Without you lending your stardom, Jeo couldn't have reached such a large audience or even made this film… Thankyou from an ardent film lover for this mighty magnanimity…”