Spoilers ahead…
The film feels like an early draft of ‘Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum’, the brilliant Dileesh Pothan movie that combined crime and humour and satire.
Oru Kidayin Karunai Manu is one of the great debut features in recent times. Suresh Sangaiah’s second feature, Sathiya Sothanai, is stitched from the same cloth. Here, too, we get a rural atmosphere (Aruppukottai) and quirky characters and situations – but this time, the magic is missing. The story opens with a man being murdered for the jewellery on him. He has so many gold chains, he could open a store. A little later, a not-too-smart man named Pradeep (Premgi Amaren) – our protagonist – comes across the body, and thus begins a series of events the involve Pradeep’s family, his fiancee, a bunch of corrupt and incompetent cops, an exasperated judge, a stolen walkie-talkie, and – most importantly – a feisty old woman dressed in white. The crux is this: Where are the jewels the dead man had on his person?
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