Kannur Squad Review: A Meticulous Procedural Explodes Into A Fun, Balls Out Mass Movie

Vishal Menon

You’re Constantly Grasping More Information Than You Think

The opening sequence of Roby Varghese Raj’s Kannur Squad is arguably the only instance in which the film’s hyper-detailing takes you away from the people on screen.

Massy Elements To Reach A Wider Audience

It appears as though the writers have found the perfect balance to make a film that will remain entertaining to the masses without diluting its ambitions to become a “pure” procedural.

The Film Makes An Excellent Case

for this in the way one of the squad members has been portrayed. Played by the film’s co-writer Rony David Raj himself, he is an officer who gets caught for accepting a bribe.

It’s This Microscopic Gaze

Into each person and event that gives you the feeling that you’re watching a police procedural like this for the first time.

Meticulously Detailed Procedural

It is clever enough to go all guns blazing for its superstar when needed. What more can you say about a film in which a Tata Sumo gets you to feel more than actual people do? 

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