Virus (My Review)

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Virus (My Review) 

 

 

About the movie: A series of deaths in Kerala’s Kozhikode and Malappuram districts shock medical practitioners. Then, as the State confirms the outbreak of a deadly virus named Nipah, a group of medical professionals, health officials and the people of the districts join together to tackle it.

 Aashiq Abu's Virus, a multi-starrer with the best of the Malayalam film industry in its cast and technical crew, is nothing short of a tribute to all those who withstood and fought back the outbreak of the Nipah virus in Kerala last year.The film doesn't waste any time in unnecessary diversions. From the word go, we're thrown into the ordered chaos of the medical world.

 Virus does not glorify its heroes; it keeps them human.From Babu, a mortuary worker (an excellent Joju George), to a senior health official Baburaj (Indrajith offering some muted comic relief) who is in a troubled marriage, they're all fallible human beings who rise to the occasion. As the pressure mounts on the administration (Revathy, Poornima and Tovino Thomas presenting the state's face), the film takes us through the kind of difficulties that the government and health officials had to overcome to contain the spread of the disease.

With so many big names in the film, it's difficult to pick out performances which stand out. Is it Soubin as the half crazed Unnikrishnan? The paranoid cop played by Dileesh Pothan? The director of Sudani from Nigeria, Zakariya, playing a compassionate man of the same name? Rima Kallingal as Akhila, gasping and speaking through her oxygen mask whatever details she knows of the case, still doing her duty as a responsible nurse? Savithri Sreedharan as a grieving mother? Perhaps the best part of the film is that none of the actors have been selfish about their screen time and have been happy to play second fiddle to the script.

My Rating: 3.5/5