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Story summary
- Spa, a Malayalam film directed by Abrid Shine, explores comedy beyond crude humor and is set in a massage parlour.
- It examines male desire and entitlement without vulgarity and reflects anxieties around such spaces in Kerala.
- Unlike double-entendre comedies, Spa uses a lighter, observational tone and highlights the awkwardness of male fantasies.
- The female characters have agency.
