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Chappa Kurishu (2011)
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Original name: ചാപ്പാ കുരിശ്
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The film revolves around the lives of two people: Arjun (Fahad Fazil), a wealthy man in the construction business in Kochi who has an affair with his subordinate Sonia (Remya Nambeesan), even though he is preparing to be engaged to his family friend's daughter Ann (Roma); and Ansari (Vineeth Sreenivasan), who lives in a slum and works in a supermarket doing odd jobs who is mocked for his appearance and has a crush his co-worker Nafiza (Niveda).
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, neo noir, dark, noir, independent film
Plot:
society, life is a bitch, social problems, class conflict, fight, battles, social misfits, lost, white trash, anonymous telephone call, bonding, chance meeting, working class, realism, moral ambiguity, character study, mature, infidelity, affair, privacy invasion, betrayal, office romance, mistaken identity, slice of life, revenge ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, captivating and tense films with plots about moral ambiguity, urban, revenge, betrayal, corruption, character study and malayalam mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Chappa Kurishu: Dhoomam (2023), Kammatti Paadam (2016), Malayankunju (2022), Silencer (2018), Udal (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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