Attention Please, is a Brilliantly crafted movie, successfully maintaining a spine tingling effect till the very end. Rarely, does one come across the politics of identity being dealt with such ingenuity. And what a terrific performance by the actor, Vishnu Govindhan! It was the dawn of another much awaited weekend, as i sat glued to the phone screen, scanning through the movies enlisted in the OTT platforms. I confusedly swiped them one after the other, unable to narrow down to a film or a series. That was when, Attention Please, grabbed my attention. I suddenly googled the movie to find out the ratings, irrespective of the fact that at times, I do end up disliking movies with great reviews.
Attention Please, started off like the story of five young men, strayed away from their passions of making a mark in the film field and ended up taking odd jobs to make a living. What thought out like a movie with the usual undertones of disappointment and existential crisis in the lives of these men, slowly takes the track for a more serious plot, of Identity; or the Politics behind your Name, Color or Talent. The identity that plugs onto your flesh and blood, that questions your being and your very existence in a society that blankets itself with reformed thoughts of renaissance and at the same time, hiding the whisphers of casteist ideologies perforating within that world.
What is interesting to notice is that the entire story is being narrated from the point of a character who unleashes the culminated feelings of his supressed emotions from being erased from the mainstream, through the words and actions of others. It is a relief to not see a story being narrated from the perspective of a higher caste hero; ensembled as a saviour and hero for the downtrodden.
Refreshingly scripted with the right amount of twists, the movie never disappoints its viewer. Even the background sounds as and when the actor narrates the stories, keeps the viewer in edge. The movie shoots us with the question on who determines the standard of rules governing someone's talent and merit and their interconnections with class.
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