Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Nayattu : A Chilling tale of a compromised system

Nayattu means hunting in Malayalam, is a chilling tale of how a system gets compromised to serve the political masters. The screenplay never once drops and keeps the pace if the happenings that follow after three cops are on the run after getting framed in the death of a Dalit youth hit by their vehicle.

The film brings to Indian cinema, a brilliant actor Yama Dilgamesh, who plays the head of the special team hunting  the cops. Director Martin Prakatt has kept to the plot without any digression. The camera by Shyju following suit. Joju George, Kunchacko Boban and Nimisha, all seasoned actors easily slip into the roles given to them. The casting of Jaffer Idukki as CM turns out to be apt.

Scriptwriter Shahi Kabir shows how  the police system is a victim of the political masters  The route map he puts to show how a police system works when it is under pressure from a office as high as the CM and especially when it's their own men who they have to hunt, is highly effective.

The film shows the divide within the police force. The lower rank officers are supportive of their own colleagues who are on the run while the top -IPS are the yes men of the political system. They(IPS) unite only to get one of their colleague off the hook by cooking up evidence. When Nimisha ( a Dalit girl and police constable who needs the job badly) refuses to sign the  statement that would put the blame on the dead cop, it gives us hope. This comes at a time when you sit flabbergasted at the way the top brass is subverting truth.

Yama who played the woman top cop on the hunt gets the body language right and scores in a scene where she looks at the woman constable with sympathy (or helplessness?) as she herself is a victim of the same system that made her a pawn. Truly haunting !!!

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