
The film foregoes the pulsing pump of a well-designed conventional criminal thriller in favour of the narrative tone of an indie procedural, and as a result, it ends up being a mediocre effort that fails to become, either. The characters blurt out pertinent exposition with the deliberate formality of a well-formulated criminal complaint, and the writing never bothers to humanise the protagonist, Sub Inspector aravind Karunaakaran (Dulquer Salman), who returns from a five-year long break from law enforcement to chase down the ghosts that led to a bleak career break.
In his altercation scenes with the protagonist, on the lookout for an unwanted truth from the past, ajith Karunaakaran (Manoj K Jeyan) gets a stock secondary role that never rises above the basic writing, though the actor's seasoned turn does lend some legitimacy to the screenplay's non-existent tension. The personal scenes are presented with the same detached detachment that underpins each of the narrative's curveball-like incidents. It's a struggle to sit through the entire film without looking away from time to time, waiting for a realistic plot twist that will bring the damp, icy microgravity of the genre exercise to an end.