Roby Varghese Raj’s ‘Kannur Squad’ is a very satisfying police procedural that plays like a massier version of ‘Kuttavum Shikshayum’
- Trinity Auditorium
- Oct 2, 2023
- 1 min read
The film stars Mammootty, Kishore, Rony David. It proves that good, thoughtful writing can exist in hero-centric mainstream filmmaking.
Masked men enter a house, commit a heinous crime, and escape. This is what a screenwriter would call the “inciting incident” of Kannur Squad. But by this point, the film has already been incited. We have already seen George (Mammootty) and the rest of his squad working on another case. We have already seen them pursue one set of criminals, stumble on another crime, and follow up clues. This long-ish prelude helps us learn something about each member of the Kannur squad, and it also tells us how meticulous they are. Would the film have still worked without this prelude? Probably, yes. But it’s nice to get two cases for the price of one movie. And it’s nicer to get a psychological profile of these policemen, who say: “We are not just human beings. We are cops.” They cannot, they will not be swayed by emotion, however valid that emotion is.
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