Boomika, On Netflix, Is Completely Bonkers

Full review here - https://www.filmcompanion.in/readers-articles/boomika-tamil-movie-netflix-boomika-is-completely-bonkers-aishwarya-rajesh-vidhu/

Boomika, written and directed by Rathindran R. Prasad, begins with a car accident. But notice how the film arrives here. Normally, we would have started with the man driving his car talking to someone on the phone so that we could catch his name, which would have been used for a pay-off typically towards the climax. Instead, here, we first see the man’s wife looking for her mother inside the house. While searching for her, she receives the call and starts talking to her husband. In the middle of the conversation, he is hit by a truck, which leads to his death. One wonders why the film needed to open with the wife when it could have just begun with the husband driving and talking on the phone before meeting with the accident. Why take the extra step? Now consider another scene where two women chat with a man on WhatsApp. It starts playfully as the women ask for the man’s photo, but the situation turns upside down, entering the creepy territory by referencing the accident from the beginning. Then and there, it became clear to me that Boomika would not turn out to be a typical genre film.

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