After a brief military career, Venugopal has resumed his education and gets romantically involved with Ambika, his classmate. Things go awry when she gets pregnant and disobeys his mandate to take abortion pills, following which, an inexplicable homicidal tendency unfurls within him. An avid reader of crime fiction, Venu devises a series of sure-fire plans to do what he does best; murder.
Acting
Ashokan's chilling transformation from awkward student to calculated killer.
Writing
Meta-horror of a crime reader applying fiction to flesh.
Director
K K Haridas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare 90s Malayalam film exploring male reproductive control; controversial then, eerily prescient now.
Director K K Haridas reportedly faced distribution struggles due to the unflinching portrayal of educated, middle-class evil rather than working-class villains typical of the era.
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