The film is set in a flooded region in Kerala where a woman and her daughter-in-law attempt to bury a loved one. However, due to heavy floods, the burial is postponed. This delay brings long-buried secrets and lies to the surface, threatening the family's unity.
Acting
Urvashi and Parvathy's volcanic mother-in-law/daughter-in-law dynamic.
Direction
Christo Tomy traps you in rising water and rising dread.
Cinematography
The flood becomes another character—oppressive, intimate, unrelenting.
Director
Christo Tomy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 2018 Kerala floods killed nearly 500 people and displaced millions; Christo Tomy uses this real trauma as emotional pressure cooker rather than spectacle.
The title 'Ullozhukku' refers to a traditional funeral ritual—Leelamma's insistence on proper burial rites becomes ironic armor for her own buried hypocrisy.
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