A man returns from vacation to find that his family has been kidnapped. He is handed over a cell phone, the caller on which gives him a set of instructions that he must follow to save his family. However, he soon realizes that he has been implicated in a bombing.
Direction
Ananda Krishnan squeezes maximum tension from minimal budget
Acting
Vidharth's sweat-drenched desperation never lets you breathe
Director
Ananda Krishnan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aal arrived during Tamil cinema's 2010s thriller renaissance, when directors started stealing from Korean cinema faster than Hollywood could.
Vidharth reportedly performed his own phone-holding arm for hours, resulting in actual muscle cramps that made it into the final cut.
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