Sajin Shrijith’s review of Ratheesh Reghunandan’s ‘Thankamani’: A gloriously self-indulgent mess reliant on painfully caricaturish performances

‘Thankamani’ has the sensibilities of an awful serial, stretched to two-and-a-half hours. It’s one of those movies that makes you want to have a bath right after.

Thankamani is a cinematic, partly fictionalised take on a dark chapter in Kerala’s political and cultural history. Some of the character, establishment and incident names have been altered, but the name of the place where the harrowing central event occurred remains the same and happens to be the film’s title. Generally, the expectation with any true story-based movie is that the filmmakers do justice to the event while keeping in mind that this is, after all, a work of entertainment. Thankamani fails on both fronts.

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