Nonton Film Ezra (2017) Full Movie
Nonton Film Ezra (2017) Full Movie Sub Indonesia
Niranjan and wife Priya move to Cochin after getting transferred from Mumbai by his company that deals with collecting and despatching nuclear wastes. He rents a large independent villa in the city and she collects a few antique decorative which included an old Chest which was taken by the merchant from the house of the last Jew in Kerala on the day he had died. Strange things begin to occur in the house that gets dangerously creepy as days go by.
Horror as a genre is not so evolved in Malayalam cinema and Indian cinema in general unlike its counterparts in the rest of the world. It is a broad genre and its most popular sub-genres are supernatural horror and psychological horror, with the former being a favourite of many of us for the sheer enjoyment of getting scared to see some imaginary creatures haunting the crap out of somebody else on screen. Horror films in Malayalam usually gets contented in showing mostly female ghosts in white chiffon saris mainly for that libidinous satisfaction of the male viewers, eyeballing with a grumpy face supposedly to scare the audience, and jump scares used in the most unimaginative manner. Director Vinayan is the master of this technique. The best Malayalam film in the genre that comes to our mind is Fazil’s Shobana starrer ‘Manichitrathazhu’ (1993) which was in fact a supernatural horror brilliantly masked with psychological facets. Hollywood has quite a few good ones in this regard; Roman Polanski’s ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (1968) is the quick one to surface, but it is the Japanese ones which has defined the modern day construct of the sub-genre (Hideo Nakata’s ‘Ring’ (1998) and ‘Dark Water’ (2002), the Thai film ‘Shutter’ (2004) etc). The 2015 Tamil movie ‘Maya’ was a good attempt.
Ezra is also one in the supernatural genre that borrows most of its elements from many other ones, mostly from Hollywood, and puts them to good use. While most of the horror films in Malayalam ‘desify’ the props and construct of Hollywood horror films, Ezra chooses to stay westernised. It is evident from the way the glimpses of Mumbai city, depiction of corporate culture, the couple’s life style, romantic scenes etc. are shown. The house in picture, its arrangement, its attic etc. are settings to create an aura of many recent films in the genre from the west including James Wan’s ‘The Conjuring’ (2013) and Scott Derrickson’s ‘Sinister’ (2012). Even the colour grading that gives a monsoon feel resembles the atmosphere of the brilliant Australian psychological horror ‘The Babadook’ (2014). Interestingly there is a reference given to ‘Manichitrathazhu’ in the scene where the heroine sets a rocking chair accidentally into motion. In another scene the TV in the room is shown to play ‘The Conjuring 2’.
The story is familiar and the twist is predictable for a genuine horror movie buff, but Ezra does not simply rely on story to bring out its essence. It stays politically correct in depicting the racial aspects of Zionists and the hierarchy differences the Jews in Kerala historically exerted over Christians, but terribly goes wrong in deeming Kabbalah as a Jewish practice for blackmagic. Setting the background from usual apparitions to a Dybbuk as per Jewish mythology is a novelty (Dybbuk is not a very familiar term, but have come across the same from the 2009 black comedy drama by Coen Brothers, ‘A Serious Man’). Apart from this there is a female ghost also the appearance of which is not logically explained in the movie. Acting by the entire cast is reasonably good, though someone like Tovino Thomas is not required to play the police officer’s role. This is yet another example of actor Prithviraj’s continuous quest for up scaling every movie of his. Sujith Vaassudev’s frames are great and Sushin Shyam’s music is excellent in a Hans-Zimmer-ish way. Director Jay.K keeps the film serious throughout by not letting the songs distract the mood. Ezra is a movie well made, and a true horror film buff must watch it in the cinemas.
Rating: 3 out of 5