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 Jeethu joseph is well known for his investigative dramas, his latest release "12th man" starring Mohanlal is also such a crime thriller. Plot. The film starts when a group of college friends and their partners tour to a hill station for celebrating one's bachelor's party along with his would be. Having enough confidence on their mutual transparency, they start a game to expose their phone calls and chats for the next one hour. Each call reveals their secrets including their past relationships. The party then turned out to be a mysterious rat trap on themselves and they seek help from each other to keep safe. Meanwhile Shiny,  one of the leading character dies in a suspicious circumstance. Her body be found on a rocky notch down in that hill station. DYSP Chandrashekharan (Mohanlal) comes to the hotel to investigate Shiny's death and reveals the truth one by one by playing the same game that they were playing just before shiny's death. Positives . 1) Mohanlal

'The Kashmir files' is more like a docudrama that shows the exodus of Kashmiri pandits in the 1990s. The film is a blend of facts and fiction that's carefully sewed to suit the conscious portrayal. Plot. The file open through the quest of a college student named Krishna whose family were victims of a targeted massacre that happened in the valley during the darkest hours of Kashmiri history. Being the Presidential candidate of his college union election, krishna was shaped by the liberal revolutionary ideologies of his campus, and he was unaware of what happened to his own family. When he goes back to his home in Kashmir to pay final rituals of his grandfather, he met his grandfather's friends among them one was a high-level bureaucrat and the others are a doctor, a policeman, and a reporter. They reveal Krishna's family tragedy, along with the horrible incidents that happened in the valley against Kashmiri pundits years before.The film goes through the side of the v