Chathur Mukham

The eagerly-anticipated first-of-its-kind 'techno' horror thriller in Malayalam, 'Chathur Mukham' premiered on Zee 5 today.

The film follows the story of Thejaswini (Manju Warrier) a cell-phone addict and aspiring entrepreneur as she encounters a strange phone that appears to be haunted with a vengeful spirit. Try as she might, she cannot get rid of it and is forced to embark on a perilous journey to investigate its antecedents.

Despite an interesting premise and good production quality, Chathur Mukham falters due to sub-par acting, especially from Sunny Wayne and a laughable antagonist. The jump scares are few and far between and the suspense elements are simply not nearly engaging enough.

The film is criminally overlong at 2 hours and 18 minutes and tests your patience by exploring several tangential sub-plots that have no impact on the core storyline.

Another film that tried to balance both the horror and thriller genres, Chathur Mukham achieves some of the horror but none of the thrills.

Manju Warrier is however, a delight as the leading lady and it is her superlative performance, alongside the innovativeness of the core idea that makes the movie moderately.

An interesting concept that could have been executed so much better!

Not recommended!

In my opinion the movie chaturmugham was a real experience with lots of attractive thriller genre, me & my family really enjoyed the movie! Over all the performance of leading artist manju is really really outstanding..

This turned out to be better than expected. When the makers claim that this is a techno-horror thriller, they substantiate that statement with a reasonably engaging plot, solid visual effects (for a mid-budget flick), and a riveting central performance by Manju Warrier. The length of the film (with several stretched out scenes and largely unexplored characters) is a drawback. Packaged at 100 minutes, this could have been just as effective and crisper at the same time. That aside, the film does have a few surprises up its sleeve. Manju's character Thejaswini is not showcased as a damsel in distress, instead, as someone who's ready to fight back. The writers also do not waste time building a romantic relationship between Thejaswini and Antony (an okay Sunny Wayne), her business partner. Even though the film begins with Thoreau's quote: "Men have become tools of their tools", it never gets preachy around how we have basically succumbed to our smartphones. Alencier's supporting act is also worth a mention.

First of all, do not fall for negative reviews. Most of them are paid to write stuff.

The movie is not boring. The concept is really good, one of its kind in India at least. Its about a girl who is addicted to social media and ends up buying a mysterious phone which turns her life upside down. In this movie, there is not much emphasis on exorcism but on science which is one of the reasons what makes this so unique. The concept of physics and electromagnetic waves and its impact on containing the negative energy. We cannot deny that negative energy does exist, which most people term as supernatural encounters or ghosts. If you have no belief in those, then this movie may disappoint you.

From an acting standpoint, Manju Warrier does a fantastic job. She has the kind of innocence and realism which makes you empathize with her character when she realizes that her days are numbered.

Compared to Cold Case, this movie stands out in terms of concept and execution.

If you got all the time in the world watch Chatur Mukam, else save yourself from this burden.