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Palayam PC (2024)
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Original name: പാളയം പി സി
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A middle-aged police constable, prefers to take night duty at an aid post in Palayam which is relatively risk-free and quite peaceful. Things changed when he was assigned protection duty for the female activist who was under public threat.
Style:
tense, suspense, realistic, crime thriller, emotional, melancholic, noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
law enforcement, responsibility, small town, activism, introspection, moral dilemma, social justice, moral ambiguity, nightshift, slow burn, humanist, minimalism, isolation
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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