Name: 1000 Babies
Director: Najeem Koya
Genre: Crime
Released: 2024-10-18
Cast: Neena Gupta, Rahman

Synopsis

1000 Babies

Sarah Ouseph is suffering from hallucinations probably related to her earlier career as an obstetric head nurse. She's living with her son, Bibin Ouseph, in Mundakkayam after retirement. Sarah is very controlling and Bibin is apparently okay with that. He works as a lab technician nearby and caters to all the needs of Sarah. On a fateful day, Sarah reveals disturbing secrets related to her past to Bibin, and struggling to deal with how Sarah changed his destiny, Bibin attacks her and flees with Sarah's diaries. Sarah is admitted to a hospital and requests the doctor to arrange a meeting with a local CI and a legal advisor. She hands over 2 letters to them, one for the police and one for the magistrate. Soon after, Sarah dies while the police decide not to pursue the crimes done by Sarah as there is no way to deal with the social situation if her secrets are out in public. However, the truth overwhelms Bibin and he chooses to go and learn more about his biological parents. As soon as he learns the one who was swapped with him is treating his parents poorly, he decides to make her go away and deviously concocts a plan that leads to her death. Possessing information of the babies his foster mother swapped, he goes through one by one with the help of like-minded people who share his ideology, with the intention of eliminating individuals from the face of the Earth, especially those who did not live up to the opportunities they were given.

Director: Najeem Koya
Release: 18 Oct 2024
Run time: 55 min

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Mixed

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The plot is brilliant, backed by a decent script that stumbles occasionally with cliché dialogues and a whole lot of plot convenience. For example, just when Kurian hits a dead end in solving a case, a clue is handed to him quite literally. The first three episodes were engaging, hooking the viewer with a story full of suspense. However, that is where the good part ends. The show took a major fall in the next four episodes, with unnecessary diversions, long and dragged scenes. Director Najeem Koya seems to lose focus, introducing unnecessary subplots and drawn-out scenes that stretch the episodes to their 40-minute run times without adding much value. The show could have easily been a limited series, had it not taken any detours, but it has somehow paved its way for a second season.

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