U-Turn (Tamil, 2018)
We think that rules only apply to others. We simply break the rules without batting our eyelids. We want the lawmakers to just close one eye, give leniency or forgive with a slap on the wrist. Somehow when the same law is broken by others, we are quick to throw the full might of book at them.
How many times have we seen drunk driving and the sequelae of such acts? How often have we seen friends cajoling their buddies to have 'one more for the road'? This must be what is meant by the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
This film is a sort of drama with a social message - 'Don't take things for granted!' It is a public service announcement to remind us that every single, seemingly useless regulation means something in the long run.
Many road users take an illegal U-turns atop a flyover by moving the laid-out concrete slabs. After making the intended turn, they do not re-adjust the concrete layout. Many accidents had happened there and an intern journalist, Rachana (Samantha Akkineni), decide to run a cover story on that. She pays a homeless guy to note the plate number of vehicles taking U-turns on the flyover. With her contact at the Road Transport Department, he gets the whereabouts of the vehicle owners. She then interviews them. She goes to the apartment of her first contact but fails. The next thing she finds out is that she is a suspect of the murder of the first contact. Soon she realises that all the persons in her list of offenders have all died recently. And their cause of death was suicide, all of them!
Things get complicated when the superior officers pressure their subordinates to close the case, and Rachana has no means to prove her innocence. Luckily, there is a sympathetic police officer who believes her. Together they try to scale up to the limits of the paranormal to get to the root of the problem.
An entertaining flick with a message.
We think that rules only apply to others. We simply break the rules without batting our eyelids. We want the lawmakers to just close one eye, give leniency or forgive with a slap on the wrist. Somehow when the same law is broken by others, we are quick to throw the full might of book at them.How many times have we seen drunk driving and the sequelae of such acts? How often have we seen friends cajoling their buddies to have 'one more for the road'? This must be what is meant by the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
This film is a sort of drama with a social message - 'Don't take things for granted!' It is a public service announcement to remind us that every single, seemingly useless regulation means something in the long run.
Many road users take an illegal U-turns atop a flyover by moving the laid-out concrete slabs. After making the intended turn, they do not re-adjust the concrete layout. Many accidents had happened there and an intern journalist, Rachana (Samantha Akkineni), decide to run a cover story on that. She pays a homeless guy to note the plate number of vehicles taking U-turns on the flyover. With her contact at the Road Transport Department, he gets the whereabouts of the vehicle owners. She then interviews them. She goes to the apartment of her first contact but fails. The next thing she finds out is that she is a suspect of the murder of the first contact. Soon she realises that all the persons in her list of offenders have all died recently. And their cause of death was suicide, all of them!
Things get complicated when the superior officers pressure their subordinates to close the case, and Rachana has no means to prove her innocence. Luckily, there is a sympathetic police officer who believes her. Together they try to scale up to the limits of the paranormal to get to the root of the problem.
An entertaining flick with a message.
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