Achyut Vinayak’s ‘Thrishanku’, with Anna Ben and Arjun Ashokan, has a super premise, but it’s content to remain a pleasant watch instead of the all-out riot it could have become

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In her first film, , Anna Ben was stuck with a psychotic brother-in-law. Since then, she has been thrown into a freezer in . She has been almost cheated on in . She has had to deal with an unwanted pregnancy in . She has fought fake journalism in . She was a murder suspect in . And in , her name was listed in the Kerala Anti-Social Activities Prevention Act. After all this cinematic trauma, you can only imagine the tears of joy that coursed down Anna Ben’s face when Achyut Vinayak approached her to act in , where she just has to be a part of some silly scenarios. She plays Megha, a Christian in love with Sethu (Arjun Ashokan). And despite a shadow of cinematic trauma in the form of an overbearing father who thinks he knows what’s best for his daughter, Megha’s story arc places her mostly in Priyadarshan-esque situations. 

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