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Cop stories are always a matter of stylish approach, and maverick dialogues blend with the mass appeal of a star. It's the common notion that we (especially Indian films) follow from the past. But when we look into today's Malayalam cinema, the cop related subject seems to be more realistic, where we feel that it is directly showing the routine or the work behind the police force. There is no over portrayal of anything. Nayattu, Eratta, Joseph, Ila veezha poonjira, etc, are some of those kinds of films. The new outcome from the Malayalam film industry, Ronth, can also be attributed to the above category. It's a simple cop story revolving around two police officers, Yohannan (Dileesh Pothan) and Dinnath (Roshan Mathew). Yohannan is a veteran, an experienced police officer, and Dinnath is a newbie, who is inexperienced. Ronth means that Patrolling is the basic idea or plot of the story. These two police officers are subjected to doing their night patrolling, and in the course of that night, they encounter many incidents, and one of the incidents negatively impacts them, which leads to chaos in their lives. I don't want to spoil the film because it is running successfully in theatres. Apart from their professional diaspora, the two police officers are emotionally bound to their families. Yohannan's wife Salomi is mentally retarded so he keeps her happy all the time and also do the household chores. He loves Salomi deeply, and it is evident all over the film. On the other side, Dinnath is living in police quarters with his wife, daughter (3-5 age), and his mother. His daughter is suffering from fever, and that is the sentimental element that works there. These two simple police officers are doing their job and confront many on a single night leads them and shatters their lives. Shahi Kabir's writing and direction were top-notch, which always put the audience into the atmosphere of Yohannan and Dinnath. We can choose whom we are inclined to. The tragic incident happened in a small course of time, will disturb us and follow us for a couple of days, like me.

Vetrimaran's political convictions are so evident and it can be seen in his previous works but here in Viduthalai 2 it's more than that apart from a pure cinematic experience. Viduthalai 1 was so emotional and subjective at one point because we are fresh to the atmosphere like Soori's character and understand everything along with Soori. We feel pity and sad about him while he is doing all the nasty things in the police camp. The film progresses through the vision of Soori where we confront his love and the iconic character in the second one, i.e. Perumal aka Vadhyar, the character done by Vijay Sethupathi. Many glimpses of the second part are there on the first part itself, the second is more political than the first. Social issues especially caste discrimination are the key element in many of Vetri's work here also. Vetri follows the path of arousing statements rather than simple dialogues he just uses his ideas in a way like an oration. Common man's problems or the struggles of working-class people were taught and through it, he claims the significance of the communist party at that time to gather the working-class people and lead them to fight for their rights. He criticizes the policies of the government and bureaucracy and their attitude towards the low-class people. The landscape and the portrayal were so big but when it came to the core of the cinematic experience it didn't work so well. Vetri is a minimum guarantee director and that guarantee is met here but some slight problems like the maximum usage of dialogues and the no connection between Perumal and Mahalakshmi's (Manju Warrier) affair seem to be unfit in the entire movie. There was a women-centric approach but it went in vain. I didn't feel any emotional connection between them because the portrayal was so amateur. The appearance of Mahalakshmi at the beginning portion was so unmatched for me because she remembers me of Indira Gandhi (in the case of hairstyle). Through the character of Perumal, Vetri wants to point out his views and ideas that he wants to deal with the audience. The movie is an above-average output as a whole.