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Zombivli review: Predictable but Eerie and Convoluting!

Zombivli is worth watching at least once for its different approach to story as well as treatment, writes Jyothi Venkatesh

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Zombivli

ZOMBIVLI (Marathi)

Producer: Sa Re Ga Ma

Director: Aditya Sarpotdar

Cast: Amey Wagh, Vaidehi Parshurami, Lalit Prabhakar, Vijay Nikam and Trupti Khamkar

Platform of Release: Theatrical

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By Jyothi Venkatesh

When a deadly zombie outbreak threatens to engulf the whole suburb of Dombivali in Mumbai and is believed to spread beyond too. In the face of adversity, three youngsters stand up to the challenge of getting to the root cause of this outbreak and what’s more, also succeed in preventing it too from spreading any further in the adjacent town. Marathi cinema’s first zombie apocalypse film, aptly titled Zombivli is actually a must watch especially for the deft directorial style of Aditya Sarpotdar, who is known for his ability to tackle different themes over the last several years, especially since films in the genre have been just a handful (Goa Goa Gone, Rise of The Zombie and Miruthan to name a few.

What I liked about Sarpotdar’s style of direction is that the wafer thin story unfolds in Dombivali, highlighting the rich-poor divide by juxtaposing a high rise residential tower with a vast slum in its vicinity. There’s a social angle attached to the story by Mahesh Iyer, which prevents this film from going into the mindless, zombie-attack zone which quite a few Hollywood projects have in the past.

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Amey Wagh is very convincing as the young and timid engineer Sudhir Joshi, whose newly wedded wife Seema (Vaidehi Parshurami) and the good hearted local youth leader Vishwas (Lalit Prabhakar) who has a right hand that is genuinely out of control who cares for the residents and gives his best shot to save them from the impending trouble. The problem is worsened by the industrialist Musale (Vijay Nikam), whose water plant is stealing water from the people to sell it back to them. Vaidehi looks endearing in the part that she is playing though she should shed a little weight. Trupti Khamkar has a brief role but shines.

A film which belongs to a genre like this relies a lot on VFX and prosthetics, and Zombivli scores on that front by making the zombies look really scary and despicable though believable. The background score is equally good, conveying the gravity of each scene well, though half way through the film tends to drag a lot for lack of a cohesive plot.

Sarpotdar takes Mahesh Iyer’s story and endows it with a colorful local flavor and humor. They could not have chosen a better location than Dombivli, a bustling distant suburb of Mumbai which is filled with working-class people aspiring to better, and competing for living space. To sum up, Zombivli is worth watching at least once for its different approach to story as well as treatment. It is predictable but nevertheless eerie and convoluting.

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