The plot of the movie "4 years," starring Priya Prakash Varrier and Sarjano Khalid, is only two days long, yet it takes a lifetime to wrap up.

The expectations raised by the title "4 years" may not be accurate, as the story of the film revolves around a day or two.

But in a way, it is also a fitting term.

The film's director, Ranjith Sankar, aims to distil the four years of two young people's engineering college experience into just two days, which are the final ones they spent in school.

On paper, it sounds like an intriguing project, but in practise, things don't always work out as planned.

The plot centres on a couple that split up a few months ago.

It comes as little surprise that they did.

Gayathri (Priya Prakash Varrier) is a determined, career-focused individual with a strong sense of what she wants and well-organized plans for the upcoming few years.

Vishal (Sarjano Khalid), on the other hand, lacks direction, has a backlog of exams to finish, and struggles greatly with controlling his wrath.

Only over the course of these two days do all of these realities become clear.

Even though the two protagonists are portrayed desiring that it had gone on forever, it is a very little time period that the viewer wishes was shorter.

Even as their buddies begin to gradually go, they come up with justifications to remain in college.

Although these two are the sole characters in the entire screenplay, a large portion of it is based on the overuse of college reminiscence.

The most recent successful movie Hridayam also displayed this obsession with college life reminiscence.

Ironically, some of the moments in 4 Years make fun of this.

For instance, a character can ask, "Are you going to die?" in response to him declaring that it will be his last meal from college.

Everything is romanticised, even the campus hallways and the gardens and trees.

It's reasonable to anticipate that the narrative will swing backwards to depict their experiences on campus or, at the conclusion, forward to indicate where they will both wind up once they have gotten used to the last-day setting.

Ranjith, however, never takes advantage of these opportunities despite having many of them.

Everything is made an effort to be communicated through their discussions, leaving us with only the memories of their early years, the pleasure they had at the youth festival, Vishal's ongoing arguments at the forefront of college politics, and their eventual breakup due to his uncontrollable rage.

However, this imposed minimalism and the unwavering attention to the couple only leave us with little to look forward to, particularly because the couple's disagreement is insufficient to keep us interested.

It has nothing to do with the alleged timeless quality of their romance, but the two days in this film seem to last an eternity.