Janaki v/s State of Kerala

Name: Janaki v/s State of Kerala
Director: Pravin Narayanan
Genre: Action
Released: 2025-07-17
Cast: Suresh Gopi, Anupama Parameswaran, Divya Pillai, Baiju, Shobi Thilakan

Directed by Pravin Narayanan

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154 min 17 Jul 2025

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Janaki v/s State of Kerala

Janaki Vidhyadharan is an IT professional from Bengaluru whose visit to her hometown for a festival turns into a nightmare when she becomes a victim of sexual assault. As she seeks justice, she loses her father and the case takes a complex turn when David Abel Donovan, a sharp and composed lawyer, steps in to defend the accused. Caught in the crossfire between legal arguments and lived trauma, Janaki's fight exposes the deep moral and ethical dilemmas of the Indian judicial system. In a world where the law is supposed to protect, the lines between right and wrong begin to blur leaving us to ask: what really happened to Janaki, and what does justice truly mean?

Director: Pravin Narayanan
Release: 17 Jul 2025
Run time: 154 min
Language: Malayalam

Cast & crew

Suresh Gopi Cast

Anupama Parameswaran Cast DI Divya Pillai Cast BA Baiju Cast

Shobi Thilakan Cast

Jayan Cherthala Cast

Joy Mathew Cast RA Rajith Menon Cast

Joemon Joshy Cast AS Askar Ali Cast SH Shruthi Ramachandran Adv MA Madhav Suresh Naveen Mathews BA Baiju Santhosh Cast AB Abhishek Ravindran Adv VA Vaishnavi Raj Lakshmi ME Medha Pallavi Rakshita Shetty YA Yadu Krishnan Cast DI Dilip Menon Vidhyadharan Pillai KO Kottayam Ramesh Public Prosecutor Adv JO Jose Shonadhri Samuel John DI Dini Daniel Dr BA Balaji Sharma Shivaprasad Eloor NI Nishthar Sait MLA Antony Issac SH Shafeer Khan Venu Chittappan MA Manjusree Nair Chitta RA Ratheesh Krishnan Tony Thomas JA Jai Vishnu Anand Muralidhran MU Musthafa Sargam Manohar AS Aswin Gopi Nath Bakery Staff AK Akhil Jibin Abraham Groom PR Pravin Narayanan Director, Writer J. J. Phanindra Kumar Producer GH Ghibran Composer GI Gireesh Narayanan Ghibran Composer RE Renadive Cinematographer SA Samjith Mohammed Editor

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Alas, it was a false alarm. I don't mind an old-school masala entertainer if done well. But here's the problem with JSK: It wants to create the impression that it's trying to do something huge through seemingly "big" diversions and buildup moments. It takes you in one direction, making you believe you're watching some intricate mechanism. It's when you're finally done with it, after around 150 minutes, you realise that the trip you undertook to reach a destination was much longer than necessary. JSK wants to say something; perhaps the makers were serious (or not) about addressing a particular topic, but the paths it took to get there offer the least measure of intrigue and excitement. I asked: They went to all that trouble to say this?

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Release date: 17 Jul 2025
Run time: 154 min
Language: Malayalam
Country: IN
Director: Pravin Narayanan

Janaki v/s State of Kerala

Janaki v/s State of Kerala

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