Imagine Visaranai meeting The Shawshank Redemption at a Kottayam sub-jail and you may arrive at the high-concept Malayalam thriller Swathanthryam Ardharathriyil. The movie is about Jacob (Antony Varghese), a manager at a finance firm, who is behind bars for allegedly stealing money and protecting his girlfriend from made-up murder charges.
Most of the movie is about him finding accomplices to dig a tunnel beneath the prison to burrow his way to freedom. Debut director Tinu Pappachan has elevated a generic plot to a rambunctiously entertaining ride solely on the basis of jaw-dropping ...
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First Published: Fri, May 11 2018. 21:56 IST
