I spent the hours leading up to the New Year’s watching eko which dropped on Netflix. We watched together as a family. I really enjoyed watching this finale of the Animal trilogy.
The story telling with a twist in the tale reminiscent of Jeffrey Archer who wrote a book of short stories with that name. Doing that with three stories on television/theatre is difficult.
As the Wikipedia page for eko says:
Eko serves as the third and final instalment of Bahul Ramesh’s Animal Trilogy, following Kishkindha Kaandam (2024) and Kerala Crime Files 2 (2025).
I recently needed to read about movies to understand the story better after just one viewing. I didn’t have the energy to watch them again to discover these hidden layers. I even overlooked some details when reading about them. That’s when I found the explanations on The Pirate Explains YouTube channel helpful.
The first video from the channel is about the questions you may have had you watched the movie only once. I would warn you against watching this video unless you have watched the movie at least once.
The same channel had another video that fixes the timeline in the movie for you, but I didn’t think that was that much of a value add.
Sometimes protection and restriction, both look the same. This is the thought with which Bahul Ramesh wrote eko. I enjoyed learning about his intuitive writing of the first draft in this interview with Baradwaj Rangan.
He has a really unique storywriting process. Dialogue, Screenplay, and Story.
But, eventually, this means that I can’t post a review immediately after watching it.
Parallel Spirals 