This Mollywood production (the Malayalam cinema of Kerala in South India), of reasonable length, tells the drama of a widower, Roshan Mathew (who has just lost his wife and child, in a melancholy performance with all the misery of the world on his shoulders) and his father (Mammukoya, the philosopher on duty) who find themselves taken hostage first by a pursued policeman who takes refuge in his house with a prisoner, then besieged by Prithviraj Sukumaran (obsessive and hysterical) who wishes to kill the prisoner at all costs (that is to say, to kill all those who would want to prevent him). Add to that Srindaa, Roshan Mathew's neighbor, who has a crush on him, but they are not from the same community. Of course, the house under siege with our hostages is lost in the mountains and the forest, which helps to tighten the tension.
The latent conflict is not clear, but it seems to be a conflict between the Muslim and Hindu communities. The more the film progresses, the more the tension rises: first the cop and his prisoner, then those who seek to kill him. The whole thing takes place for a good part in the night.
The film contains some moralistic dialogue, but all in all it's a superb country thriller that works and for which it's hard to guess the progression.
The latent conflict is not clear, but it seems to be a conflict between the Muslim and Hindu communities. The more the film progresses, the more the tension rises: first the cop and his prisoner, then those who seek to kill him. The whole thing takes place for a good part in the night.
The film contains some moralistic dialogue, but all in all it's a superb country thriller that works and for which it's hard to guess the progression.