I Ahmed’s ‘Iraivan’, with Jayam Ravi and Nayanthara, is a super-generic and underwhelming serial-killer thriller

Man is the most dangerous animal of all. These are not my words. These are the words that open this thriller, which features Jayam Ravi and Nayanthara as Arjun and Priya. He is a cop. She is a cop’s sister. (Narain plays her brother, Andrew.) Arjun is impatient and believes in encounter killings, saying that he cannot wait for God to deliver justice. Priya is waiting for him to realise that, despite these rules he lives his life by, he can still get married. I liked one line that Andrew says to Arjun, that death never comes to people who say they are not afraid to die. It comes to people around them. Otherwise, this is not a film where the actors are required to give much of a performance. The direction is loud and simplistic. The events are random. If Arjun is going to continue with the investigation, why have him resign and turn in his gun? Nothing makes sense. If Arjun is stepping away to open a coffee shop, then it would be nice to show him getting pulled back in. But that, I guess, would require too much thinking, too much writing.

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