Ananthan Kaadu

The result is a character who remains compelling because he never becomes a mouthpiece for the film's politics.

Ananthan Kaadu movie review Director Jiyen Krishnakumar039s Ananthan Kaadu starring Arya Murali Gopy Indrans and Vijayaraghavan is a story about how the system neverlets you win The film has an interesting backdrop but fails to achieve a cohesive story

The production design of the movie has done an impressive job in recreating that period in many scenes, especially the railway station scenes in the climax.

Which is already a problem in a film whose writing promises an ambitious political commentary by attempting to tie the Sri Lankan genocide with the goonda activities of Thiruvananthapuram, only to reduce everything to a revenge drama that you have seen umpteen times before.

Nikhila Vimal gets a minor role where she can hardly make her presence felt, while Santhi Balachandran gets to essay a moderately impactful character.

However, Jiyen Krishnakumar fails miserably in this regard, almost making one wonder if the movie even had a director during its production, given the mediocre-to-shoddy execution evident throughout.

The actor still gets one of the film's most powerful moments when he barges into a party office and fights rogue communists on campus.

Despite strong initial visuals and some compelling performances, "Ananthan Kaadu" eventually becomes an energy-draining affair with overstretched violence and underwritten characters

Instead of allowing the characters and situations to build tension naturally, the film relies too much on long speeches, dramatic lines, and predictable conflicts.