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
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.