In his first movie as a lead, Kanna Ravi goes all out. He performs a younger chief Appu combating for marginalized communities and spreading the ideas of communism. Because the movie progresses, he reduces from this mighty and know-it-all chief to somebody who has knowingly misplaced his manner. However what impacts us extra is his eyes. As somebody who doesn’t imagine in violence, he’s not about mass fights or loudness. As a substitute, the digital camera lingers on his face conveying love at occasions, tragedy and helplessness at others. And we get one of the best of Kanna Ravi when he awaits the gun at level vary to be shot. He has a fireplace in his eyes, and a police officer says, “Ena oru kannu, eeral ah kuthi kodanjite iruku.” (His eyes are so highly effective that my abdomen retains churning.)
Though Rohini has performed the mom function in lots of movies, together with Baahubali, she delivers one of the best of all the things in Witness. As an underprivileged mom struggling to return to phrases with the lack of her son, her world turns the other way up in a day. However she additionally relentlessly fights to hunt justice for her son. So, extra typically, she expresses the 2 completely different feelings she is feeling directly. Take the court docket scenes, for example. Whereas she shudders and leaves the courtroom many occasions listening to the main points of how her son died, she exhibits the conviction to battle. The writing and character arc elevate her efficiency, and lengthy after the movie ended, what stays is her face and her dialogue: “Jeikalana paravala, sir (It’s okay if we don’t win, sir) However my son’s killers ought to stand within the court docket and provides a solution.” And that’s what you get when a seasoned actor like Rohini will get such a powerful character to play.
