Kumbalangi nights defines new age malayalam cinema that has kept movie buffs across the country (even non south indians) engrossed and captivated towards malayalam cinema. Without the modern day OTT platforms, films like these would have escaped from the sights of larger audience and would have only made it to the quite award nights.
Unlike masala Bollywood and tadka hyperbolic telugu cinema, Malayalam cinema actually banks heavily on literature coupled with strong and heavy script. This makes it even harder for uneducated and unread mass audience to stomach the intricacies of the script.
You dont get anything cheap and fast in good malayalam films and certainly not in kumbalangi nights. The final twist in the tale, doesnt come as most surprising, somewhere down the line while everything else was happening elsewhere- your mind was constantly bothered by the shady side of a character in the film and that fishy thought of yours materialises at the
climax, thats where you are left shaken and stunned holding to your seat.