In Nna Thana Case Kodu, which is Malayalam for sue me, Rajeev (Kunchacko Boban) is a reformed thief. After escaping from cops throughout an tried theft, Rajeev finds refuge underneath the shadows of Devi (Gayathrie), a Tamil-speaking woman dwelling in Kerala. He falls in love with Devi and decides to show the nook. Devi, realizing that he has a troubled historical past with the regulation, offers him an opportunity to reform. She agrees to enter a relationship with him on the promise that he would by no means return to thieving once more. And they each determine to start out a household with out first stepping into wedlock. Who stated live-in relationships have been unique to urban-dwelling, liberal-minded, well-earning, rebellious kids?
When Rajeev is accused of theft once more, Devi does not get hysterical about falling for his guarantees. She merely tells Rajeev, “Go away so that my child doesn’t have to carry the shame of your deeds.” When a cop identifies Devi as Rajeev’s spouse, she shortly corrects him, “We are not married, just lovers.” She is not ashamed of her life selections and does not fear about being judged. She is a robust, impartial girl whilst by her we’d misunderstand her as a poor, weak and helpless girl. Her strong-willed persona breaks the stereotypes that include how she appears.
Rajeev additionally has extra to his persona than what we assume of him based mostly on his greasy, unkempt look. He is aware of sufficient of the regulation to persuade a choose to grant him bail with out the help of authorized support.
The foremost supply of the movie’s leisure is how director Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval presents the narrative via characters handpicked from real-life. It’s a component courtroom drama and half procedural movie. It’s not nearly two sides making glorious factors in regards to the case. It’s about issuing challans, discovering related sections, writing numerous petitions, and making extra petitions. And the movie additionally highlights how the justice system on paper is efficient however human error in implementing it renders it much less efficient.
The choose, performed by a superb PP Kunhikrishnan within the film, is quirky. He has his personal set of eccentric qualities. While for Rajeev and Devi, their life is determined by their petition, for the choose, it is simply one other case from the infinite stream of instances. He’s not emotionally invested within the case as a lot as Rajeev and Devi. But, that does not imply he can’t have enjoyable listening to the case, which appears to be constructing as much as one thing sudden.
Kunhikrishnan’s efficiency is among the highlights of the film. The little smiles signaling that he’s a sucker for flattery and the way somewhat reward can get him to signal on necessary orders, all spotlight how the human issue muddies a near-perfect authorized system.
Ratheesh has executed an incredible job hand-picking each actor within the solid. They all match into their given roles seemingly and ship a really lived-in efficiency, one thing that we will not expertise from fashionable stars.
Nna Thaan Case Kodu appears like a religious sequel to Mahaveeryar. Both are courtroom dramas that discover the themes of reality, justice and equality. More importantly, they sort out the concept of holding these in energy accountable for his or her actions in a court docket of regulation. Mahaveeryar puzzled about how nicely our fashionable prison justice system will fare had it existed within the occasions of kings and emperors. In Nna Thaan Case Kodu, Ratheesh tries to look at the facility and instruments of a court docket in terms of holding the modern-day royalties, aka political leaders, accountable.
Unlike Mahaveeryar, Nna Thaan Case Kodu does not have any fantasy factor to it. It’s nicely grounded within the realities of the present occasions. There’s a preferred dialogue within the traditional Kannada film Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu that captures the hard-hitting reality about frequent individuals knocking on the doorways of courts to unravel their conflicts. The dialogue goes, ‘Kōrṭalli geddavanu sta, sōtavanu satta’ (in a court docket dispute, you lose when you win and when you lose, you are lifeless). In different phrases, there is no such thing as a winner in a court docket case. And Nna Thaan Case Kodu is the personification of those smart phrases.
The victory on the finish of a long-drawn authorized battle does not really feel candy. It’s reasonably bitter and anxious, makes little distinction and seemingly no person cares.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
