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I suspect Asif Ali in this story. Loophole, I feel, is when the son is gun-shot by his mother; blood is supposed to be scattered in her body and her clothes as it was a close-range shot, but it was never found by doctors when she was admitted to the hospital by Asif Ali. The doctors would have definitely questioned if a third person's blood was found in her body or on the clothes she was wearing at that time.

I do think the movie needs to be viewed from another angle where Ajayan is an unreliable narrator feeding Aparna with information that has quite a few holes in it.Appu Pillai is a medal winning expert marksman who has more chances of shooting down a monkey than a 7 year old kid.Its also probable that Appu Pillai is the one who accidentally killed the child in the evening as well. Probably Ajayan with the help of Sumadathan buried the body.Makes more sense why Appu Pillai has doubts on his own involvement .Ajayan is presenting a sanitized version of the story to Aparna who is more concerned about solving a mystery than letting bygones be bygones.This is Ajayan's way of handling Aparna where the crime is justified and Appu Pillai and Praveena's medical condition is used to present a melancholy tale and also forcing Aparna to keep her mouth shut .No way this loop can go on for more than 2 years.The hospital ,which is around 100 kms in Kozhikode, will not indulge repeated frivolous requests for medical reports beyond a point.Appu Pillai never left the house much till recently, so the repeated loop is an exaggeration by Ajayan. I think Appu Pillai 'solved' the mystery maybe a couple of times and forgot about it till the intimation letter came and the loop started.

May be the body of kid was under where vijayarakhavan burned his papers

I disagree with Nona Price because the momentary realization of the Vijayraghavan character was the most powerful because he was aware of his disease and also knew that it was a blessing as it was the only reason or purpose for him to live life to prove it to himself that he was not the person who did it. The loop was important for him to live his life that was the only purpose of his life.

"See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil" doesnt mean someone literally not seen, hear or speak about something. Its all about pretending not to be, or deliberately ignoring the specific subject. Here in the movie Vijayaraghavan (Appu Pillai) pretends that he has not seen the boy's dead body.. Asif Ali (Ajayan) does not speak out, even though he knew what happened to his son.(thpugh in the end, he was forced to reveal it only to aparna.) Aparna now know the truth by hearing it from Ajayan, but pretends she has not heard anything, and accomponies Ajayan for his next travel to nagpur in search of the kid.

I dont really agree with you about VR speaking too much just before Asif hugged him, because I feel that moment was when he realised everything and it was just before he completly forgot everything. VR momentarily, at times becomes very sharp, like when he confronted the doctor. So Itsok... 😊

Mammootty

Felt like watching M Night Shyamalan movie

Arm done within 30cr and it is a movie of a debut director.that is a great achievement. But if you ask me kishkindakandam is better than ARM.still suggests to watch both. I am starting to get worried about kerala audiance as we are getting too critical about every film releasing in this industry.not saying it is bad but somewhere it is getting a little harsh

See no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil is not entirely correct. Replace evil with 'that which causes unnecessary suffering'. This aligns more with Buddhist philosophy. The incident in question already happened and will do no one any good by spreading it to others by any means. Ajayan committed the sin of speaking about it when he tried to mention it to Appu Pillai but then after seeing the distress it caused on his dad accepted that he should speak about it no more 🙊. Aparna forcibly making her husband reveal the truth committed the sin of hearing about the incident. But then she decides the best course is to hear no more 🙉. Appu pillai in his own way sees the incident unfold through his investigation and decides the best route is not to see it any more by burning the memories of it out of his mind 🙈.

I found an excellent decoding from Sheetal Azeez, TY at SheandSha007 . Its in Malayalam. Let me summarize it. 3 monkeys -Japanese proverb. It is based on Wisdom of Self-control for having peace. 1st Wise Monkey - Speak no evil- Appu pilla. Hide truth by ignorance. Though he find the truth at end, he keep silent in every aspects. 2nd Wise Monkey - See no evil - Ajaychandran . Denial of truth. He has witnessed and aware of all truths, but keep silent. 3rd Wise Monkey - Hear no evil - Aparna, Hide truth by ignorance. Though hear truth from everyone. Later it all ignored She also proposed excellent theories which reveal the answer to missing body.

Every one says Kishkindha Kandam is brilliant. It collected less than 50 crore. Everyone says GOAT is pathetic. It collected 500 crore. Shouldn't you guys quit this job?

Husband pretended not to speak anything ( he could have “told” the story long back. But he chose not to.) Father pretended that he didn’t see anything. ( he “saw” the dead body but he behaved like he didn’t “see” anything.) Wife pretended that she didn’t hear anything (coz she “listened” the whole narrative)

Shouldn't you be conducting the spoiler talk after the theatrical run of the movie? Please try to not ruin cinema while making money out of it.

The Wife cannot See what is happening The Husband will not Speak about what happened The Father does not want to Hear anything about it

Metaphorically for this video the monkey on the left chose not to laugh, the monkey on the right chose not to reveal he's speaking using a prompter and the one in the middle chose to not choose as to choose not to choose was a chose he'd chose. I'm not high nor bored at 3 am🤞.

Japanese theory of three monkeys. Don’t see evil, don’t say evil, don’t hear evil

The wife chose not to speak about the accident. The husband chose not to see what his father doing. The father chose not to hear what actually happened.

The wife chose not to speak . The dad chose not to see and the husband chose not to hear

Appu Pillai - The monkey who is not listening to anyone and lives forever in the loop to find out the truth. Ajayan - The monkey who is silent bcz he doesn't want to expose the truth. Aparna - The monkey who doesn't see anything and hide the truth since she is a new member in that family.

Or could it be all three characters choosing to not hear or see whats told n happening around them… n also same time choosing not to speak about it

Aparna not speaking the truth here on.. asif has been ignoring what he is seeing like what vijayragavan is doing daily .. vijayragavan is ignoring to hear what really happened ..

24:26 The three wise monkeys, got the below from another decoding video of the movie (Spoiler ahead) 1. Appu Pillai do not speak, the forest officer also comments why does he stay mute when questioned 2. Ajayan saw the dead Chachu, and then unsee the body. 3. Aparna is told about the incident, but then pretends to not hear in the last scene where they board the train to identify another dead body.

Did you guys know that the house that they shot it is same one from Bramayugam.

Vijayaraghavan was brilliant

No doubt, it's a very good movie. If we look closely, we can see that the theme is heavily inspired by Shutter Island. I'll try to provide a brief summary of why I think so : Similarities (in theme, not the entire story): 1. The protagonist is in search of a missing person. 2. After a while, we learn that the protagonist has issues with his memory. He repeats his actions and continues trying to find the missing person. 3. The protagonist only remembers what he wants to remember (in Kishkindha Kandam, the hero's father suffers from a similar condition). 4. In Shutter Island, the protagonist eventually realizes that his wife killed their children. In *Kishkindha Kandam*, the hero’s wife accidentally kills a child. 5. In Shutter Island, the protagonist has a friend who is a cop, but at the very end of the movie, it is revealed that he is actually a psychologist treating the protagonist for his mental illness.

Educative people will produce high good movies 🎥

I heard reviews that this film is as good as Drishyam and so only went to watch it. But I’m depressed. You can never compare it with Drishyam. There is no thrilling crime story in this. The gun was accidentally shot by kid himself, which resulted in his death. What is thrilling in this? Didn’t feel like I’ve watched a movie after coming out of theater. But the acting of all actors and the scenery was nice. I watched ARM last week, it is a super film, you feel like you have watched something when you come out of the theater. I give 90% for ARM, and 45 to 55% mark only for this film.

Kishkinda kandam reminded me the movies of Oriol Paulo. psychological thrillers with brilliant screen play

The story was written in 8 days but the formalities of forest, police procedure of submitting guns at election time etc are checked by ads and updated/ reworked asper the writer.

Asif hugging vijayaraghavan happened much before Asif got married a second time. At that time his memory was better than now?

In one scene appu pillai checking news paper cuttings and Appu Pillai also mentioned as naxelite attackers of police station but Sumadhan(22) Appu Pillai(17) so since he is minor may be not mentioned in official records.

Its a cringe movie…to be frank

Nona you are spot on mentioning Nolan. The writer mentioned he was listning to song/bgm of inception and intersteller while writing the story.

Some mentioned second watching felt like it's a different film

“Kettyolaanu ente malakha”.. starring Asif ali…Pls dont miss this masterpiece ..It comes up with a powerful mesage to the society..

You guys should watch “Kettyolaanu ente maalaakha” of Asif ali…One of his best movies..🔥

Thats wot the director said in an interview..He said ,his idea was not to throw ..twist after twist through out the movie,like we usually see in thriller movies….its a mind fcuk movie in short…💀..in my mind,, even one of the monkeys was the culprit at one point of time...😁…Only Asif knows the truth..what if the story he fed to Aparna was a lie..what if the kid was killed by Asif ..His 1st wife is no more to prove otherwise , in fact nobody else is there who knows the truth.. ..He is the only reliable person who can tell the real story💀

It's not time traveller but that loop🔥

It was a loop hole and I felt like the story didn't reach anywhere 😌 Only Appupilla knows where the child was hidden Ajayan didn't tell his father that he was dead and his mother shot him. When Appupilla came, he must have seen the child dead, in his sudden frenzy, he hide his body, but the next moment, he must have forgotten, that is, as if nothing had happened, he saw his son drinking porridge with ease. He knows that it was his son or daughter-in-law who killed the child, so that no one knows that all the evidence is burned, then he is looking for the child without even knowing what was burned. Ajayan is unable to find where the child was hidden due to his father's forgetfulness, that is why Ajayan does not stop his father's search.

DOP is the script writer of this movie. No one else. That too he completed the script in 8 days, during COVID lock down

I saw the movie. That child was very very still. There is some mistake

I used to to be an ardent Hollywood fan watching those amazing movies the pre marvel era uptill the 2012 alhtough i like marvel they have ruined hollywood. Great movies just pop out so so rarely, now i am an ardent mollywood fan cause its a great era to be if you know Malayalam language.ARM is exceptional in technical aspects it baffles me that i am watching such a film in my own language. Like wise minnal murali too was a interesting take on the super hero genre. Waiting for more of such science fiction and action movies that can level up the whole industry.

2 people have written it and to coordinate and do it with all the logic and clarity,its commendable they did it in 8 days

The only other movie that made my brain freeze during the climax was Iratta...Only malayalam movies can come up with such magic!!

Undoubtedly the best movie I have seen in last few years ❤❤❤❤ What a making yaaar...How can anyone miss watching this ...Wowww

Asif - Monkey who didn’t say anything even me knows everything Vijay Raghavan - He saw the body of kid but didn’t see anything monkey Aparna - Ends she knows everything after heard Asif but act like not heard anything

Asif - Monkey who didn’t say anything even me knows everything Vijay Raghavan - He saw the body of kid but didn’t see anything monkey Aparna - Ends she knows everything after heard Asif but act like not heard anything

Your seniors at Muzik Lounge...are the core audio team of Kishkinda kandam. ..viz Renju Raj Mathew--b2 Audiography Jayashanker b3. Bgm premix.. . similarly in manjummel boys आवेशम and premalu our ML students are omnipresent..!!

I beg to differ.. writing in 8 days ..that too a brilliant scipt and watertight screenplay is no small feat . Writing doesnt come easy even to most celebrated writers.