Gaganachari Review.!
A time when aliens and portals are normal like ‘thattukadas’ in Kerala, the ‘Legendary’ Victor Vasudevan and his assistants living at peace on illegal grounds. The Green-filled Post Apocalyptic Kerala had survived some dam disaster and even the Third World War!! Gaganachari is one of those unique films happens in Mollywood rarely. Set in a near future of 2040s, the opening montage shows how much the World has been changed since 2025. But ironically, the least mentioned one was The Third World War! After winning Awards at several International Film Festivals, the movie was first released in India on 2024 January at Kochi as an Exclusive Premiere conducted by Kerala Pop Con – Kerala’s Biggest Pop Culture Event. Now the film gets a wide release. Extra shows and theatres are now adding in Kerala as well as International and Rest of India.
Gaganachari focuses its apocalyptic world on more small detailing than larger big events. After the first 10 minutes, we’re immersed into their world. The story revolves around core trio of the Movie : Victor Vasudevan (Ganesh Kumar), Allan (Gokul Suresh) and Vaibhav a.k.a Vibe (Aju Varghese). The film is presented as a mockumentary as two people from Lelo Industries, which seems to be the only corporate exists in this world, wants to take a documentary of Victor Vasudevan. One of these interviewers is popular youtuber Anantharaman (Appuppan & The Boys, Nissaram!) and the other being Siva Sai, the co-writer of this film. Just in a few minutes, the make belief of Aliens became a normal talk in Kerala was executed in a great way. The film progresses as the interludes of interviews placed inbetween the story. Movie gets into its main plot as the Alien Girl (Anarkali Marikar) enters the trio’s life.
Gaganachari’s biggest positive in my opinion is the pop culture references starts from Vinayan’s War & Love and extends to Hollywood Movies. Allan is a movie fanatic and voice artist. In that way, they perfectly executed the references all along the movie. Overall humour includes both laughbusters and passive humours. In short, some Tailor-made humours for malayali audience worked very well. Meraki did a good job at vfx and I loved how they executed it in different ways since it’s minimal budget. The usage of AI images didn’t disappointed is a win situation indeed! The optimum utilization of resources achieved in the covid era. The Core Trio had good chemistry and it worked out very well as well as Anarkali. Surprise guest role and supporting characters were cherry on top. The ratio usage was another brilliant movement.
I’ve watched the film two times in Theatre. One from my locality theatre – Chengannur C Cinemas, and one from LuLu PVR. Irrespective of change in size and demography, I still watched two near housefull shows with a great audience. This just proved the marketing potential of this movie. I know Kalki2898AD is the talk of town now. But give Gaganachari a try too as these movies happen rarely. The next installment of Gaganachari Universe is now announced : Maniyan Chittappan – with Suresh Gopi as the titular character. This character is referred in Gaganachari itself. So this could potentially be the First Cinematic Universe in Mollywood!
In conclusion, Gaganachari is unique, funny and it definitely deserves more audience in theatres.
Compiled By Sree Nandan