Kuttrame Thandanai

9/26/2016

Kutrame Thandanai, the second film from Kaaka Muttai director M Manikandan, is a solid low-key thriller that is also an understated morality play. The film begins like something out of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. We are introduced to Ravi (Vitharth), a credit card debt collector. He lives in a run-down flat that provides him a view of the goings-on in the houses of his neighbours. And Swetha (Aishwarya Rajesh, a lingering presence despite her limited screen time), an attractive girl who has a fair share of male visitors, is of particular interest to Ravi. Meanwhile, we are told that Ravi has a unique eye impairment — tunnel vision; he cannot see objects in the periphery (the film keeps presenting shots from his point of view to reinforce this idea). He is told that he will need to g