Njan Steve Lopez

Kammattipadam, Rajeev Ravi made this small, unassuming film that starts off as a stress-free, feel-good coming of age drama and then BOOM: escalates the film to a whole new plane. Even though things get a little dark in the film there’s an overall muted and lazy energy but at the same time a freshness that hooks you to this curious character called Steve who is just like any of us with all his flaws, but beneath all that is a good heart that’s probably too good for this world. The plot is wafer-thin but how Rajeev Ravi decides to make it come alive visually, considering his expertise as a cinematographer is what makes this film so watchable. The best example of that is this one phone conversation scene that happens between Steve and his crush Anjali : what a unique way to show a type of scene that’s done to death over so many decades of cinema.