Tourist Home (film)
Tourist Home | |
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Sarayu Saiju Kurup Roshan | |
Cinematography | Firoz Khan |
Music by | Jasnifer Maharoof |
Production company | Mega Media Films |
Distributed by | Happy and Ruby Cinema Release |
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Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Tourist Home is a 2013 Malayalam thriller film directed by Shebi. The film plots a series of incidents that take place in the 10 rooms of a tourist home.[2] It is written by ten writers and is produced under the banner of Mega Media.[3] The highlight of the film is that the entire story is filmed using a single shot. It is arguably the first Indian film to be made using this technique.[4][5]
The film has an ensemble cast featuring more than 40 actors including
Plot
The film traces a series of incidents that take place in the 10 rooms of a tourist home. The plot revolves around the following characters: two young boys who have a bad past due to their unethical lives, an old man who has come for the medical aid for his grandson in the medical college, a policeman and a whore, a woman who is forced to search unlawful means to earn money to meet the medical expenses for her ill husband, a man who fear to attend an interview and his friend, an astrologer who chants different ways to get a peaceful mind, a daughter who tries to remind the unethical ways of her father, a woman, her daughter and dance master to participate in a dance reality show, a woman who has come to abort her pregnancy from her husband's friend, and a gang who has taken a room for gambling, who are all staying in that ten rooms of the Tourist Home.
Cast
- Hemanth Menon as Jojo
- Meera Nandan as Reshma
- Sreejith Vijay
- Rejith Menon
- Sreejith Ravi as Rajeev
- Kalabhavan Mani as traffic cop
- Nedumudi Venu
- Lena
- Sarayuas Anitha
- Saiju Kurup
- Suvith Krishna as Aloysius
- Roshan Basheer as Sajan
- Madhupal as Mammootty
- Kochu Preman as money lender
- Kottayam Nazeer as a thief
- Edavela Babu as Chackochan
- Maniyan Pilla Rajuas Sathyanathan
- Chembil Ashokan as a pimp
- Sunil Sukhada as a dance instructor Peethambaran
- Kunchan
- Narayanankutty as Shivankutty
- Ajay Nataraj as a thief
- Thesni Khan
- Sreelatha Namboothiri
- Archana Menon as a hooker
- Mukundan
Production
The story of the film has some similarities with V. K. Prakash's 2012 film Trivandrum Lodge, which also showcases the lives of tenants in a lodge. However, Shebi, who had earlier directed Plus Two, says, "I have been working close to two-and-half years to put together a team and to perfect the technical side of the film. So, when Trivandrum Lodge was announced, I was a bit nervous; I felt that all my work would go down the drain because we took so long to begin." About shooting the entire film in a single shot, he says, "I was inspired by the movie Russian Ark, which was filmed using a single sequence. The climax scene in Lal Jose's Classmates used a similar technique. That's when the idea of doing an entire film stringing together different stories and capturing it in a single shot struck me."[6]
Reception
A critic from Rediff.com wrote that "Yet, Tourist Home is an interesting one-time watch".[7][8]
References
- ^ "Tourist Home and Buddy from today"
- ^ "Tourist Home"
- ^ "Tourist home all set to release tomorrow"
- ^ "Tourist Home to release on July 5"
- ^ "Tourist Home: Expected to hit the screens soon"
- ^ "Thirty stars in Tourist Home"
- ^ Palicha, Paresh C. "Review: Malayalam movie Tourist Home is a one-time watch". Rediff. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 21 July 2023.