Maanu, a lazy and aimless youngster without a steady job and steady income, flees from his native place after witnessing a murder.
Acting
Musthafa's blank-faced aimlessness is uncomfortably real.
Direction
Siva turns mundane Kerala landscapes into psychological prisons.
Cinematography
Dusty roads and waiting rooms that feel like purgatory.

Director
Sidhartha Siva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Kasaragod, the film captures a specific northern Kerala dialect and Muslim community rarely centered in Malayalam cinema.
Sidhartha Siva cast himself as Ustad, the Quran teacher — a role that directly judges Maanu's moral failures.