Spoilers ahead…
The film, led by a superb Prasanth Alexander, is both a murder mystery and an absurdist comedy, with a touch of domestic abuse and the sight of Darshana Rajendran with streaks of grey.
If Krishand’s new film had been an Agatha Christie or Perry Mason mystery, it might be called “The Case of the Unidentified Corpse.” A dead man shows up in a river, by a post that demarcates a zonal difference. (His face and features are mangled by river creatures, which is why he is unidentifiable.) If the corpse floats down this side of the post, then the case will go to the cops on this side of the river. So these cops hope and pray that the tide carries the corpse away to the other side, so that the case is no longer their headache. But a cheerful man – a grinning idiot – takes it upon himself to steer the body to this side, and adds to the troubles faced by SI Sebastian (a superb Prasanth Alexander, who plays the comedy at the perfectly dry pitch this film needs).
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