Bheeshma Parvam marks 15 years since Amal Neerad reunited with Mammootty as the lead ever since his debut Big B. Now hailed as one of the game-changing Malayalam cinema has to offer, while it wasn't a huge box office hit it still attained cult classic status ever since its release.

Encanto in a way, actually makes it so unique and great that with rewatches you realize some aspects of what the movie is trying to tell are a lot more subtle through its esoteric means of storytelling. And how do they do that successfully? Well, make it a musical of course!

It's a shame that Disney never tried to sell this movie unlike their other animated properties from different productions (Pixar, Walt Disney Animation) because not only is this movie surprisingly great but it also has this genuine feel-good aspect, Disney movies have been sorely missing these days.

It's a weird but intriguing take on a commercial trope overused in Tamil cinema (sons avenging their father's death here) and decides to subvert it with a dose of dark humor, indie-style filmmaking, and unpredictability within this narrative