The story takes place in a hilly village on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. The story is about a strict police officer who relocates there and the subsequent events that turn his and many other's lives upside down associated with that police station. Few normal incidents happen in the village, and some from the past suddenly appear to be abnormal. The secrets slowly start unfolding.
Acting
Asif Ali's suffocated intensity carries every frame.
Direction
Jeethu Joseph weaponizes rural mundanity into dread.
Cinematography
The border hills feel like a character watching back.
Director
Jeethu Joseph
Asif Ali
Giri Shankar
Renji Panicker
CI Somasekharan Pillai
Baburaj
CI Harilal
Jaffer Idukki
Maniyan
Hannah Reji Koshy
Lakshmi
Nandhu
Subbayya Swami
Baiju Santhosh
Thambi
Abhiram Radhakrishnan
CPO Vinod
George Mariyan
Circle Inspector [Tamil Nadu]
Ramesh Thilak
Senthil [Tamil Nadu CPO]
Pauly Valsan
Giri's Mother
Meghanathan
SI Sukumaran
Jayan Cherthala
DySp
Deepak Parambol
Suresh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Kerala-Tamil Nadu border setting isn't just backdrop—it's thematic territory, a liminal space where jurisdiction blurs and accountability dissolves.
Jeethu Joseph essentially made a Drishyam inverse: here, the 'perfect family man' archetype curdles into something far more compromised, interrogating Malayalam cinema's own cop worship.
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