Sammohanam

Indraganti's Sammohanam is not only audacious enough to slow down all too often, it also earns its right to do so. For it doesn't inch forward at a snail's pace simply to fill time but explores its characters' nuances. There is a key scene in the movie's first hour where the lead pair talk leisurely about their lives on a terrace, late in the night, and time is virtually suspended as the director shows his complete defiance of any norms that would hold back a lesser film, and goes on to weave the magic he so desperately wants to. After all, for a film named "Sammohanam", an intoxicating superl....