Cast: Jayam Ravi, Keerthy Suresh, Anupama Parameswaran
Written and directed by: Antony Bhagyaraj
Runtime: 155 minutes
Available in: Theatres
It’s not always right to walk into the theatre expecting a certain kind of film. However, it’s naturally form an idea going by film’s trailer. The trailer of Siren, starring Jayam Ravi and Keerthy Suresh, hints at a probable revenge drama — a do-good ambulance driver, Thilakan (aka Thilakavarman), is wronged. When he is out on parole years later, several murders happen and the police suspect him. In all honesty, the film unfolds in a very predictable manner. But it is the arc of Keerthy Suresh’s Nandhini — an honest police officer who is suspended on the grounds of custodial violence — that gives the story an interesting spin.
We are told that both Nandhini and Thilakan are blamed for murders that they didn’t commit. While there is this similar pattern of emotional turmoil that they are put through, they both are up against each other in a different murder case. It’s such an intriguing idea to explore their psyches and create a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase, especially when it is a rare sight to see a leading woman don a cop uniform and go against the hero. Likewise, the father-daughter angle where Thilakan’s daughter Malar grows up hating him makes you want to root for them to get back together. The sad part though is the film builds up both these angles with enough commitment to provide support for Thilakan’s journey and then leaves them hanging mid-air.
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