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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...

KGF Chapter 2, being one of the most awaited film after the massive success of its first chapter that revamped the old-school Gangster stories in an overwhelmingly cinematic manner. PLOT . When Rocky established himself as a new social order in KGF, he realised that there exists 9 gold reserves in total as discovered by Suryavardhan in 1951,and the sector 3/9 is just one of it. He excavates the rest with his own people, a labour society, about which no data is traceable,even from satellite imagery. Rocky also keep his ambitious girl Reenu as hostage for his own safety, in a palace in KGF and literally rules not just KGF, but the whole political map of India. To hunt him down, Suryavardhan's brother Adheera who was thought to be dead on records, retake the story by challenging Rocky. Adheera shot down Rocky in a Gun fight and attacks KGF. Rocky loosing influence in KGF, fly to meet Inayat Ghalil who trade gold with Shetty and bargain to trade gold directly from Africa to Indian c...

Beast, is a Nelson cum Vijay film in all its form. When Situational comedies in serious plots are tried to thread along the star power of vijay, we would expect a cocktail of perfect commercial entertainer, but beast couldn't give out what it offered. PLOT . Story structured as a hostage drama when terrorists hijacked an EAST COAST mall in chennai to bargain the release of their leader named Umar khalif from indian prison. Veera Raghavan (vijay) also trapped inside the mall, is actually a RAW agent who suffers from a psychological damage after an earlier incident in indo-pak border when he accidentally killed a child during a short range missile attack. He emerges as a savior of civilians from hostage meanwhile the terrorist leader got released from india by the government on negotiations. Veera raghavan manages to go to pakistan chasing the terrorist leader and bring him back to india after destroying the terrorists camp. POSITIVES . Action sequences are well choreographed and nea...

" Salute " is a crime drama (not much a thriller), visualise the professional lives of Police officers, their compromised values, Ethics, and family life.  The film starts when a young police officer named Aravid tries to access a case file from the police station where he was serving as a Sub-inspector years before  Turning the pages of the file, he recollects the way in which his team framed false evidences against a local man named Murali, because of the political pressure to conclude the investigation warfoottedly. Aravind filled with regrets for this immoral execution of his duty that threw the life of an innocent man to a life-long imprisonment,and his lone sister to social auditing. With a deep sense of repentance, he tries to reinvestigate the case though it will make the entire department (including his brother) the culprit and finally conclude the case proving himself and themselves wrong. POSITIVES . The film is more realistic, not much dramatic. It shows the limit...

The Tashkent files  is a political investigative drama written and directed by Vivek agnihotri. Its based on conspiracy theories in modern indian history that circumscribed around Lal bahadhur Sastri's death at Tashkent, a day after he signed the historic "Tashkent declaration". Here are some of my favourite quotes from the film... 1) " Lack of evidence can't be an evidence to itself. ." 2) " You know, Globalization is just another word for corporate slavery " 3) " A country that's caught up in its past can never progress. And, one needs courage to detach himself from the past" 4) " We have to think whats right and whats not right, for the 1.5 billion people of this country. We may have to sacrifice our provision for a larger public good. And courage, is not always about speaking truth, its also about keeping silence even if you know the truth" 5) "There are uncountable number of cases still remains a mystery. Truth is ...

  Bheeshmaparvam invites the crowd with two cards. One of Mammotty and Amal neerad, the other. It tells about a Powerful and Royal Christian family, its past and revenge gratification. First 10 minutes draws the branches of the Anjootty family-tree and its ramifications with a last photo-capturing scene on which it hints everyone's conduct with the stem and taperoot of the family, Michael(Mammootty). As Michael holds the authority to govern the family buisness,testified by his late father, he earns respect and discipline by default. When some ruthless members of the family starts questioning the Michael's autocracy with greed, they seek help from Michael's old rivals and challenges him. Michael retaliates with precision, cunning and power as he saves himself and the family's name sometimes diplomatically and often through violence. POSITIVES . Technically, film is very commendable for its editing, cinematography and style. Sushin syam's BGM pulled the film to an ove...