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Bridgette Kubis
In order to decorate their new home, Priya visits the curio shop and purchases the box. A series of unexplained events take place in the house which makes an initially skeptical Ranjan to take help from his relative who is a catholic priest. He identifies the box and that it contains a Dybbuk which can only be exorcised by a jewish rabbi. Priya reveals to him that she is pregnant while he is in Mumbai trying to get a jewish rabbi to exorcise the malevolent spirit. The rabbi warns Ranjan that the dybbuk might latch on to anyone with an unbalanced or unformed mind like his unborn child. The plot continues till the eventual and inevitable exorcism of the spirit. A parallel flash back plot is added to explain the formation of the dybbuk- which visually was passable but with poor acting performances.
Ezra has all the stereotypical character tropes- the lead male trying to fight the evil spirit, the evil spirit with a tragic back story, the vulnerable female character and the exorcist/saviour figure. When a much awaited malayalam horror film simply rips off a tried and tested Hollywood formula, the result is disappointing and mediocre. Even though the effort put in by the director and crew is pretty much evident in an otherwise visually well crafted movie, Ezra in the end is supposed to be a horror movie and it is fair that it is analysed as one.
It is good to see a malayalam movie with really good visuals after a long time, but the fact that they wasted it on a very derivative and predictable story is sad. I am not even getting into the fact that Ezra is pretty much the same story as Possession (2012). The film was marketed as a horror film unlike any seen in Malayalam cinema. But Ezra would have worked better as an adaptation rather than a horror film if the filmmakers had disclosed that the film was a remake of Possession, and retained the basic plot line and visuals from the original while making sure that it contained elements that would blend in with the malayalee psyche.
So is Ezra devoid of anything good to say about? No. There are a few scenes which disturbs the audience while not attempting a jump scare. The images of Priya walking on top of a wall with the severed head of a dog, the mangled body of a curio shop assistant inside a box is seared into the minds of the audience. The sub plot which tells the love story of Abraham Ezra captures the charm of the jewish settlement and its mercantile history in Kochi. There is also a good piece of CGI in the climax where the soul possessing the protagonist is exorcised, which is probably the best I have seen in a Malayalam movie.