Based on a true story, Christy follows a story of a young teenage boy falling in love with his tuition teacher. The story is good but buried under a layer of shoddy and confused writing. The screenplay standing at a 140 minutes doesn’t feel too long primarily because the proceedings are light and breezy until the writers decide to include intensity in the drama. And that is where the film falters.

First things first! The title of the film doesn’t do justice to the story. The reason why I say this is because the entire story unfolds from the perspective of the male protagonist who goes by the name Roy. This was a fundamental error straight up! I would have still be forgiving had I got a little glimpse into the mind of Christy and what made her take those decisions. Alas, that wasn’t shown! The screenplay does have a typical three act structure and the disappointing bit is that the film actually works well in the first two acts. But the third act is so off and so shoddy and confused that it did bring the overall film down drastically.

In a typical style of world building in the first act, you are introduced to the protagonist and later his love interest. The vibe of the drama is sweet and quite warm. The proceedings are organic and the initial phase of love blossoming which often does have a tinge of awkwardness to it was nicely tapped into. One event did lead to another and the hesitation on the part of one of the characters while confessing his love for the other character was aptly captured. By the time the second act plays out, an interesting conflict is introduced in the screenplay with distance being the primary conflict between the two characters.

I did have minor issues with the characterization of Christy as she was often seen giving mixed signals. At one point, she did not seem okay to take the relationship forward but in an immediate next instance wished that Roy would come and meet her or take her to places. I was keen awaiting the reasoning behind it, but my wait just continued and continued!

One of the weakest final acts that I have seen for a Malayalam film in recent times was in this very film! It can be termed as nothing short of a brain fade. In this act, it is shown that Roy does sell off his bike in order to visit Maldives and stay with Christy where she has been residing for work. And there were multiple loopholes here. Firstly, there was a minor stutter on the entire segment featuring the health of Christy’s grandmother. But eventually nothing was a blocker, everything went on as planned, so then why was this subplot introduced? Secondly, there is artificial excitement introduced with almost the entire final act unfolding across 2 airports. And within that space too, the character of Christy refuses to recognize Roy but in the very next scene is seen to be rescuing him from the officials. Why? Why? Why? We would never know! This final act did anger me as the story could have met with a logical reasoning, this way or the other. Either show Christy to be a bad person or show her to be good! But surely not confused! Overall, the screenplay is a bit of a mixed bag but the final act is nothing short of a brain fade!