Just a week ago, there was Lens, talking about the dark side of the internet, and making us realise how it feeds our voyeuristic impulses. Inayathalam, too, conveys the same message, but with a different setting — sex is replaced with murder here. But there the comparison ends. For the two films are polar opposites when it comes to storytelling and filmmaking. What was admirable there feels abominable here.
The plot involves an anonymous website streaming murders live. And in a fiendishly clever way, the brain behind these crimes commits them in such a way by feeding off the voyeuristic needs of the public. The cybercrime officers handling the case, Ganesh (Ganesh Venkatram), Helen (Shwetha Menon) and Ganapathy (Erode Mahesh), are at their wits end, as the criminal is sophisticated enough to not leave any clues in the digital world. And even as these cops try their best, one among them is captured. Who is committing these murders, and why?
( 1.5 / 5 )