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A tale of a mother's quest to find her child and the demons plaguing him.

Storyline

Rhythm (Keerthy Suresh), a divorcee who is about to have a child from second wedlock, is scandalized by the horrors in her dreams in which she observes a man with an umbrella crippling her missing son Ajay from her first wedding. The movie then progresses to the past where her son goes missing into the woods. All his other friends come back except him and upon asking a child sees him going away with a man disguised as Charlie Chaplin. Rhythm then seeks for Ajay but fails. She continually recalls her lost son which mortifies her. She keeps going back to the lake where Ajay disappeared. One evening when she drove by the lake, she notices a dying man. He informs her that he saw a missing child with a man disguised as Charlie Chaplin and asks her to escape before he comes to kill her and then she escapes. Possessing a clue about the abductor of her son, she informs the police of what she heard from the dead man. Eventually, she goes by the lake, and there she notices her son Ajay all grown up but abused and tamed like a pet, who acts only on instructions. Rhythm and Ajay's birth father (Linga) try getting abundant therapy for him but in vain. Ajay draws a few images of his abductor. It is revealed through the images that the kidnapper is still shadowing him. Rhythm gets close to uncovering the kidnapper's identification when he meets Ajay but is tackled by him. The remainder of the story reveals Dr. David as a child abductor and human meat butcher but Rhythm's true nemesis is her own childhood friend who kidnapped her son and abused him for years.  

Critic Review

3 years ago | CLAPNUMBER

2.5

Every serial killer film usually presents an interesting element. In Penguin, its a masked man, an angelic statue and objects in the color Yellow. Penguin, starring Keerthy Suresh presented itself as an investigative thriller. Let's see if the Amazon Prime Video release meets our expectations. 


Story

 

Rhythm is expecting a child and is highly depressed about the loss/missing of her first son. In a flashback, she narrates a story of a mother penguin's tenacity and strength to retrieve a baby penguin. Curiously, her lost son returns and this sets in motion the investigation behind the mystery. 

Analysis

Penguin has beautiful visuals. It's amazing how every frame is postcard-worthy. While the slow narration and draging nature of the movie is fine to deal with, the biggest let down is the climax. The fact that someone would go to such lengths for trivial reasons didn't work. Plus the messy structure, haphazard writing and lack of logic kind of cloud Keerthy Suresh's honest portrayal.

Movie Details

A tale of a mother's quest to find her child and the demons plaguing him.

Genre : Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Language : Telugu
Director : Eashvar Karthic
Producer : Karthik Subbaraj , Kaarthekeyen Santhanam
Release Date(Theater) : 19th Jun, 2020
Runtime : 2h 12min
Production Co : Stone Bench Films
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