The criminal is always one step ahead of the detective and the director, who doesn’t shy away from showing us the brutality of the crimes, stages the action in sudden bursts, so there is always tension in the scenes.Ĭomparisons with Guy Richie’s films and Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s TV series are inevitable, but Mysskin ensures that this film is wholly his. The murders are clever (artificial lightning, ricin, laughing gas), the action thrilling and the scenes suspenseful. It starts off on a slow note - the film spends a little too much time with a sub-plot (a commercial compromise?) involving Mallika (Anu Emmanuel), a pick-pocket who Kaniyan becomes fond of and even abuses - but picks up speed and races along leading to a thrilling interval point. Like every Mysskin film, Thupparivaalan is idiosyncratic. Meanwhile, a gang of ruthless criminals, led by a character called Devil (Vinay, chilling), which is behind the murders, gets a whiff of Kaniyan’s investigation and plots to take him down before he can derail all their carefully laid-out plans. As he investigates, with his Watson-like friend Mano (Prasanna, able foil), it leads him to a death that we are shown in the film’s opening scene - of a father and his son being struck by lightning. After a few false starts, he gets a mystery that he feels is worthy of his calibre - it involves a dead canine and a missing canine tooth. The first time we are introduced to his Kaniyan Poonkundran (Vishal, effective), he is desperate for a case - his fix. Thupparivaalan Review: Taking inspiration from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Mysskin has come up with his own eccentric detective, who is bloody brilliant at deduction, socially challenged and will not rest until he has solved his case. Thupparivaalan Synopsis: Detective Kaniyan Poonkundran is hungry for a challenging case to investigate and the mystery of a murdered dog leads to a rival who could be the match for him.
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