Kundannoorile Kulsitha Lahala Review | This Mess Will Make You Wonder Whether ED or NCB Should Investigate the Makers

You know that feeling when you think one hour of a terribly made movie is over, but when you check the watch, you realize only half an hour has gone by, and you need to sit through two more hours of this crap? Well, try Kundannoorile Kulsitha Lahala if you wish to experience this illusion experiment with time. With a script that is looking for a conflict in the entire first half, this underwear revenge story undermines its audience on a whole new level. Many unfunny comedy skits compiled together might not be a movie creatively, but that’s enough for a censor board certification.

So, the movie is set in this fictional village called Kundannoor. There are two groups of women in this village who work under the rural employment guarantee scheme, and they are the Shantham group and the Nanma group. They are the stereotypical women who spread false rumors about others in the village. In the midst of all this, a new phenomenon happened in the village, and that was the vanishing of underwear. Who is behind this? And the efforts of the villagers to find who it is is what we see in this movie.

First of all, the movie’s poster had Lukman, and that was the sole reason why I decided to watch this movie. But fortunately for Lukman and unfortunately for the audience, all he did in the film was say “Oru Chaya Oru Cigarette” three or four times in the same costume. The movie opens with a scene that shows us one stupid scriptwriter who worships Vineeth Sreenivasan, writing this particular movie. And they are giving us a warning that this film is written by this lunatic and hence you should not look for logic or sense in this film. I don’t know whether this entire movie is director Akshay Ashok PK’s efforts to tell Vineeth Sreenivasan that he is only inspiring people to create crap films these days.

I really want to talk about the movie and its content and craft. But unfortunately, the sheer lack of all these things is giving me a writer’s block. In order to avoid this creative phenomenon called writer’s block, Akshay Ashok PK has implemented a new strategy. Let’s not write anything. Whatever scenes you see till the “underwear” conflict hits the village has no relevance. They are just random trashy comedy skits that the makers can justify as world-building. Once the conflict is established, I was hoping the movie would stick to it, but again, it is just going after random subplots. The hunt for the people behind the underwear robbery and the backstory to that is just awful. At the very end of the movie, we get to see this unending melodramatic scene where two buffoon characters in the film bring the wife and newborn baby of a migrant guest worker, and you are like, what are you even trying to say?

Other than Veena Nair, Asha Madathil Sreekanth, Pradeep Balan, and the influencer Dasettan Kozhikode, none of the other actors are familiar to the audience. Thanks to the terrible script that just demands a caricature version of every character, the performances of each of them are just increasing the headache.

In a film companion interview somewhere around the pandemic, I remember Anupama Chopra asking Mahesh Narayanan and Fahadh Faasil out of admiration what they were smoking to come up with these concepts that the other industries were not trying. Well, in the case of Kundannoorile Kulsitha Lahala, one would ask the same to its makers, but the angle of respect won’t be there. And dear Lukman, you are a very talented actor, and even in the films that didn’t work for me, I have seen a genuine reason why you or the filmmaker decided to go with that film. Supporting small ventures is a great quality, but kindly make sure that you won’t end up as the poster boy of a scam.