Nayattu is a compelling thriller; but wait, is it a thriller?
Nayattu premiered on Netflix on 5th April and it has reached straight at No. 2 amongst the most watched in India. It is a compelling thriller and leaves the audience on the tenterhook right till the end and then you are left wondering whether it was a social message that was being passed or was it still the thriller genre. Three cops on the chase by the cops because of a series of mis-happenings that was happening since morning. All this in the backdrop of pitched election fervor and eventually it all leads to a major fiasco at the end of the day. And three cops, brilliantly underplayed by Kunchacko Boban, Joju George and Nimisha Sajayan (in a completely different avatar after the fantastic Great Indian Kitchen) are spot on. The main protagonist of Nayattu remains the context which is politics and its under current and the antagonist perhaps are these three characters. Nayattu starts with the lives of these three characters and the challenges they face at home and at w...