24 Hours - Gripping

Banner: Aqua Movies

Cast: Kuldeep, Komal, Manoj K Jayan, Shammi Thilakan, Anil, Devan, Vinaya Prasad, Jameel Khan

Direction: Aditya Sam Abraham

Music: Rahul Raj

The story is basically that of a spoilt youngster named Jagannath Varma (Kuldeep) who engages in street racing. His family consists of elder brother Vikramaditya Varma played by Devan and a doting sister-in-law played by Vinaya Prasad. Jagan gets involved in a major racing crash on the streets of Kochi in the early minutes of the movie.

The aftermath makes headline news causing major embarrassment to his elder brother who’s a reputed industrialist. Fed up with Jagan’s spoilt ways Vikramaditya Varma disinherits Jagan from the family and throws him out of the house much against Vinaya Prasad’s protests. Down and out of his luck, Jagan takes refuge in a seedy bar. There, in a thrilling twist, and in a very interesting turn of events, Jagan gets mistakenly have murdered the brother of a mafia don played Manoj K. Jayan. And so begins a chain of events where Jagan constantly has to get out of one tight spot after another.

Bottom Line

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24 Hours - Gripping

While the story that 24 Hours tells is nothing new the way the film unfolds on screen is a pleasant surprise to watch. This definitely is a very different movie for the Malayalam audience.