Movies like Kannagi Nagar
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Kannagi Nagar (2025)
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Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Kutty and Meena lost their parents in the tsunami and live with their grandmother in Kannagi Nagar. Meena is kidnapped by 5 boys. He falls unconscious thinking that meena has raped and killed. With the help of a demented young charity founder, he survives and murders five people. Later, knowing that Meena is alive, he goes to Thailand in search of the meena and finds meena. But Meena scolds the kutti and sends him away asking him to be good. Because of meena decision kutti kill himself at one construction site.
Style:
psychological thriller, crime drama, bleak, dark, tragic ending, grim
Plot:
revenge, murder, kidnapping, suicide, grief, sibling relationship, trauma, obsession, mental illness, vigilante, guilt, morality, isolation, rejection, street crime, young adult, construction site, loss of parents, loss of parent
Place:
thailand
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