14 minutes that'll haunt you longer than most 3-hour epics.
A writer escapes to a distant land to flee his past and pen his autobiography. However, he soon finds himself caught in a series of strange events, which eventually take a new turn.
Direction
Santhosh squeezes a lifetime of dread into 14 minutes.
Cinematography
Reality bleeds into fantasy through disorienting visual shifts.
Acting
Murali's haunted eyes do the heavy lifting. No dialogue needed.
Director
Jay K Santhosh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Agham' (ആഘാതം) roughly translates to 'impact' or 'trauma' in Malayalam—fitting for a film about the aftershocks of moral failure.
Srikant Murali, primarily a Tamil actor, delivers subtle performance in Malayalam cinema's growing wave of bite-sized existential horror.
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