Chathur Mukham

It resembles some cheap english horror movies. If you have time to spare then its watchable. No great moments, theories or horror. Movie is not that boring also.

If you got all the time in the world watch Chatur Mukam, else save yourself from this burden.

The eagerly-anticipated first-of-its-kind 'techno' horror thriller in Malayalam, 'Chathur Mukham' premiered on Zee 5 today.

The film follows the story of Thejaswini (Manju Warrier) a cell-phone addict and aspiring entrepreneur as she encounters a strange phone that appears to be haunted with a vengeful spirit. Try as she might, she cannot get rid of it and is forced to embark on a perilous journey to investigate its antecedents.

Despite an interesting premise and good production quality, Chathur Mukham falters due to sub-par acting, especially from Sunny Wayne and a laughable antagonist. The jump scares are few and far between and the suspense elements are simply not nearly engaging enough.

The film is criminally overlong at 2 hours and 18 minutes and tests your patience by exploring several tangential sub-plots that have no impact on the core storyline.

Another film that tried to balance both the horror and thriller genres, Chathur Mukham achieves some of the horror but none of the thrills.

Manju Warrier is however, a delight as the leading lady and it is her superlative performance, alongside the innovativeness of the core idea that makes the movie moderately.

An interesting concept that could have been executed so much better!

Not recommended!

This turned out to be better than expected. When the makers claim that this is a techno-horror thriller, they substantiate that statement with a reasonably engaging plot, solid visual effects (for a mid-budget flick), and a riveting central performance by Manju Warrier. The length of the film (with several stretched out scenes and largely unexplored characters) is a drawback. Packaged at 100 minutes, this could have been just as effective and crisper at the same time. That aside, the film does have a few surprises up its sleeve. Manju's character Thejaswini is not showcased as a damsel in distress, instead, as someone who's ready to fight back. The writers also do not waste time building a romantic relationship between Thejaswini and Antony (an okay Sunny Wayne), her business partner. Even though the film begins with Thoreau's quote: "Men have become tools of their tools", it never gets preachy around how we have basically succumbed to our smartphones. Alencier's supporting act is also worth a mention.

This one blew my mind not because it's having any twist or turns but for the fresh concept for horror in Mollywood. Breaking all the cliche in horror movies Chathur Mukham stands alone on it's genre. I have saw many many comments and ratings given by other user about the miscast of Manju Warrier who dosen't look like she is her 20's or 30's and should have casted someone more young. I have one question to all of them who has this comment "Seriously?" do you really think any of the Mollywood's youth actresses can pull of the character of Manju like her ?. The appropriate for it is a big "NO". Even after watching her great performance as "Thejasvini" we cannot think of other actress to do this role. Overall this movie was a great experience for me and I really wish that Mollywood to do these type of fresh ideas rather than same old Hero and Villain fighting genre.