Twenty One Gms

Nanda Kishore is the Deputy Superintendent at the Police Crime Branch, who lives a sad life with his wife Gauri after their only daughter passes away. Anjali works a biomedical engineer at a multispecialty hospital in the city and comes across incriminating evidence against her hospital's Managing Director, John Samuel. She plans to hand over this evidence to an independent journalist Shihab, but before she could hand over the dossier, Shihab dies from a cardiac arrest and Anjali herself is also killed by John's henchman, Tipper Tony and employee Dr. Nikhil when they try to recover the dossier from her. Upon learning his sister's death, Anjali's brother Martin arrives from the US. John realizes that Martin is also a threat and sends Tony to finish him off. CI Sreenivasan gets a call that night about Martin's death as the neighbours got the stench of burning flesh.

Investigation tightens as they start interrogating Jimmy, Martin's best friend and business partner. A manhunt for Tony also begins as he and his car are found to be missing. Meanwhile, Kishore's brother-in-law Vinay also gets involved as he begins to tail Dr. Nikhil one night after some suspicions arise. Further investigations reveal the malpractice that happened at John's hospital in testing unauthorized drugs on kids. Nikhil is also revealed dead soon after.Finding Tony's whereabouts and the perpetrators behind the mysterious deaths from the climax of the story.

• Anoop Menon as Nanda Kishore, Crime Branch DYSP
• Leona Lishoy as Gouri, Kishore's wife
• Vivek Anirudh as Vinay
• Alexander Prasanth as CI Sreenivasan
• Anu Mohan as SI Sunny, Crime Branch
• Dilip Nambiar as Police Surgeon
• Ranjith as Dr. John Samuel
• Manasa Radhakrishnan as Anjali
• Chandunath G Nair as Martin
• Lena as Rachel IPS, Crime Branch SP
• Aji John as Jimmy
• Jeeva Joseph as Nikhil Narayanan
• Bineesh Bastin as Tipper Tonny
• Nandhu as Fr. Joseph
• Mareena Michael Kurisingal as ASI Abhirami,Crime Branch
• Shanker Ramakrishnan as Shihab Mohammed, an investigative journalist
• Renji Panicker as Dr. Alex Koshy, psychiatrist
• Rajeesh Kartha as flower merchant

The film is the directorial debut of Bibin Krishna, an IT engineer. The film was also produced by his IT colleague Rinish K. N. who was keen to produce films. In June 2021, Krishna told to The Hindu that he had the screenplay completed four years ago but he used this time to improve his knowledge in filmmaking by working in short films. Anoop Menon heard the story in December 2020, who suggested to start filming in January 2021, they managed to start filming with the next 15 days. It was shot in Kochi and Vagamon. Filming was completed in March 2021 just before the COVID-19 pandemic in India.[4][5]

The soundtrack was composed by Deepak Dev, with lyrics written by Vinayak Sasikumar.[6]

The film was released in theatres on 18 March 2022. It was digitally released for streaming on Disney+ Hotstar on 10 June 2022. The satellite rights of the film were acquired by Asianet.

The film generally received positive reviews from critics and audience. The Times of India rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "A thriller that saves its twists till the end"[7][8]

• 21 Grams, a 2003 American film.

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