K K Road Malayalam Movie
KK Road is an attempt to unfurl the mysteries surrounding four corpses found abandoned near a deserted quarry. Devdas IPS is appointed by the Chief Minister (C K Padmanabhan) to probe into the deaths, and it doesn't take much time for the officer to decide that these are clear cases of homicide.
Investigative thrillers tend to drive around predetermined paths, and when a film makes a marked deviation from the routine, it tends to be noticed. KK Road makes no such attempt and retains all the thriller prerequisites down to their last detail.
The IPS officer has a nickname called Adiyodadi that he has earned from being a no-nonsense cop who would stop at nothing till he sees justice is meted out to the deprived. It remains more of a meager imitation of several other police roles that have been etched in our minds, and very rarely rises above the ordinary.
The police aide in this case (Mala Aravindan) cites practical reasons before he excuses himself from the case. Along comes a substitute Noushad (Shammi Thilakan) who looks more of an ally to Devdas, and together they start cracking the whip.
The suspense elements in the film that are expected to pull things together are disappointing. For one, anyone can sense it all along who the culprit is. The major (and the only) reason that draws us back to the plot then, is the rationale behind the crime. But it doesn't muster enough strength when it finally is disclosed, nor does it appear convincing either.
The number of characters that the film throws on your face, one after the other is exasperating. I guess the intention was to keep the tension up by offering as many possibilities as could be afforded, but ultimately many of these characters serve no other purpose than mere time pushers.
Babu Antony who hasn't been around for quite a while is back with a film that looks more like an extension of the kind of films that he had done prior to his short break from films. Thematically, Babu seems on comfortable territory, and does an okay job of playing the police officer. His focus seems more to be on those stunts than on his acting abilities, and he neatly executes them.
There are very few women characters in the film, which are played by actors like Suvarna Mathew and Shamna Kasim, of which the latter gets lucky and gets to sing a song with Nishanth Sagar. The politicians who have donned a few key roles in the film seem to be on alien turf.
KK Road requires plenty of more energy and some real strength behind it, if it has to win its battle at the box office. With the very mediocre script that it has at its disposal its struggles real hard to be an arresting murder mystery, but is never able to reach anywhere near its aspirations.
