Gentlewoman Movie Review

Cast:

Lijomol Jose - Poorni

Hari Krishnan - Aravind

Losliya Mariyanesan - Anna 

Rajiv Gandhi - poovendhan

Dharani - Deepika

Vairabalan - Soviet

Sudesh - Prabhu Doss

Producer: Komala Hari, Hari Bhaskaran, PN Narenthra Kumar & Leo Logane Nethaji

Co-Producer: Dinesh Kumar T.C

Production Banner: Komala Hari Pictures & One Drop Ocean Pictures

Written & Directed by Joshua Sethuraman

Theatrical Release by :

Uthraa Productions - S Hari Uthraa

Technical Crew:

Music Composer : Govind Vasantha

Cinematographer : Sa.Kathavarayan

Editor : Elayaraja Sekar

Production Designer : A.Amaran

Lyrics & Dialogues : Yugabharathi

Action Choreographer : Sudesh

Dance Choreographer : Azar

Costumer : Sathya

Audiographer : Kewyn Frederick

Associate Director : Annamalai Karu, Pugazh Mahendran

Assistant Director : Dinesh Kumar, Arockia Raj, Bagath PS, Iswaran T

DI : Promo Works

Colourist : Aditiya Krishnan

VFX : Antony Jerome, Ram Sivanesh

Assistant Cinematographer : Badal Pithadiya, Kiran, Abhishek Singh

Assistant Editor : Sathya Mohan, Vasant Sagar Sasikala

Art Associates : PR.Dheventhiran Balu, D.Yuvanesh, S.Dhivyarajan

Publicity Designer : Bharanidharan

BTS Photographer : Sam Jeremiah

PRO : Sathish (AIM)

Digital PR :Ahmed Asjad

Promotions - Vivek Amirthalingam

Subtitles by : Qube

Audio Label: Divo Music

Lijomol and Losliya drive a superb slow-burn drama rich in social commentary and moral ethics

Gentlewoman With a mix of dark humor and social commentary, it invites viewers to reflect on modern relationships and women's experiences without being heavy-handed.

Arvind (Hari Krishnan) is an LIC employee who lives with his wife Poorni (Lijomol Jose), a traditional stay-at-home woman. Juts three months into their marriage, Arvind and Poorni might seem to live happily even as he has patriarchal control over a subservient Poorni. But a certain incident unveils Arvind’s other side to Poorni. What happens to the couple later? Things get murkier when Anna (Losliya Mariyanesan) comes in search of Arvind.

For most, the hesitance or scepticism of doing something may be a bigger obstacle, over knowing or not knowing about being to do it. In Gentlewoman, overcoming the scepticism and shifting gears (literally), Poorni, who stays away from driving car despite having drove tractors, back parks her husband’s car in one swift go and precision. This comes right in time when Poorni must take charge of situations and she goes for it. Gentlewoman is a powerful commentary, which brilliantly makes space for pockets of dark humour and dabbles on moral complexities, in a very subtle.

In Gentlewoman, which takes the effective slow-burn way, to setup its characters and the aftermath, we are shown Arvindh and Poorni leading a life in their apartment. But debutant director Joshua Sethuraman packs in lots of details to show the equation between them. Arvind is not your typical alpha male who commands respect either through shouting or violence, but he isn’t a man of equals either. His patriarchy is rooted to nonchalance that comes with acknowledging privilege and choosing when to use them. Which is why he thinks Poorni or her distant relative are bound to serve him from the kitchen and make them believe he does not know how to switch on the stove. But offers to make coffee or even barbeque to women he wishes to please, be it his neighbour Nancy or the woman from his past, Anna. Arvind is not a man of ignorance either. He knows when to win over a woman and when he can be lethargic for them to win over him, and we are told this by when Arvind chooses to tell ‘love you’ to women in his life.