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Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Blistering performances.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Huh!!This is not a movie, its serial episode. No story line, nothing... Who the hell is this director and a real shame to malayalam movies... avoid such movies... I feel wasted 2 hrs of my life for such a nonsense movie... story starts with fight of husband and wife and ends there, no thrilling scenes, no mystery.

Being a Malayali i have always been proud of the way Malayalam film industry prefers realistic portrayals in movies. The main character is not superhuman he or she has flaws he or she is just one among the millions of commoners living together in this society only their story is unique.This approach has beyond doubt created many legendary movies yet with kali sadly this same approach backfires slightly. The movie begins in a spectacular fashion carries on the initial intensity till the end yet does not provide the movie with a satisfactory ending which is a little sad. yet this movie is beyond doubt watchable and for most part really intriguing. Every single shot, the background score and everything else is picture perfect. Speaking of performances, both Dulquer and Sai pallavi have provided remarkably strong performances alongside vinayakan and chemban vinod jose (i found vinayakan's initial act a bit rusty) who have given good performances.A special mention must go to Soubin Sahir (what a find he is!) who provides a remarkably subtle funny performance worth remembering.All in all kali is well executed film with some minor yet disappointing shortcomings in script towards the end. Yet it definitely is a movie worth watching once.

The movie starts with an argument followed immediately by the cause of it up until the interval. The movie revolves around Siddharth, a short-tempered fellow, and his calm and loving wife, Anjali, who has to stand his every tantrum. The movie, shortly after the beginning sequence, shows Siddharth as a feisty child, transitioning into a violent teenager and finally into an adult who at least tries to control his temper. Just before the interval, Siddharth has the worst day ever as he embarrasses his wife and himself as he abuses a co-worker at a party and accidentally abuses him father-in-law when he gets home. Just before the interval, Siddharth gets into a bit of a joust in his car with a truck driver as the driver does an illegal overtake endangering Siddharth and Anjali. This is a rapid change in pace from the earlier part of the movie which only contained instances of Siddharth's outrage and not such full-flung anger. After the interval, the movie speeds up even more as they go to a roadside restaurant run by goons. Siddharth gets into more trouble due to him lacking patience and something about not being able to pay for a unsatisfactory meal. This is followed by a another vehicle jousting sequence and a fight scene involving Siddharth. The movie ends on a high as goons gets what's coming to them and Siddharth promising to try harder to be more patient and calm but not before long, he gets into another fight but this time for justifiable reasons. Before watching the movie, I read in some reviews that Sai's acting in the movie is beyond poor and I can see why they wrote this. Her facial expressions are authentic enough but her dialogue presentation is unconvincing and emotionless. Her accent is also a bit heavy which makes me wonder if her character, Anjali, had a Tamil background to cover up her accent. Dulquer displayed a very realistic and fantastic performance. The movie as a whole is well directed with minor pace issues. The script is interesting but the music is forgettable. Overall, worth a watch for the interesting story and Dulquer's performance.

Dear Sameer Tahir, the fight scene at the start of Kali was very impressive. It was very imagistic and quite well edited with visuals of the angry cat interwoven into the fight sequence. I liked the way you used the close ups of Vinayakan's face to emphasize the ugliness of violence. The film started with a bang. But it soon slipped into mediocrity because the character study of Dulqer Salman's short-tempered and misanthropic character was a failure. In the film's first half, we are fed too many scenes underlining his short temperedness. But there is nothing about his world view. Is he a misanthrope? Does he hate the human race (his reaction to Soubin Sahir's character and customers at his workplace indicated that people irritated him)? Or is it something that happened in his childhood (there was only a brief flashback of him being bullied as a kid)? Nothing. It was a great opportunity to say something about the state of humanity and enforced relationships at the work place. Frankly Sameer, I was ready to go to sleep because the scenes from the banal middle class life of the protagonist and his wife were completely unimaginative. The scenes came across as ones that would be written for the sort of movie that Jayaram would act in. But the well shot truck chase scene just before the interval woke me up. The next thirty minutes with the encounter at the roadside food stall were riveting. The second half of the film was clearly better than the rather dull first half. The two villains - Chemban Vinod Jose and Vinayakan were terrific. Chemban must be one of the best actor's working in Malayalam cinema at the moment. Dulqer Salman's performance was respectable. Him and Nivin Pauly have improved so much in their last few films. Sai Pallavi was above average. You could have been more discreet with the use of background score. Sometimes, silences help a lot. Best Regards, Pimpin. (6/10)