B.Tech

<p>Azad joins for a course in Bangalore where he is met by seniors. Out of them, Anand, a carefree B.Tech. student from a very affluent family saves him from ragging. He finds accommodation in the college hostel and stays with Anand and his friends. They enjoy their days in college. Anand and his friends don’t care about their academics, but Azad is more of a studious kind and passes all exams with good marks. He falls in love with Ananya, Anand’s cousin, and she eventually reciprocates. One day, they both decide to go to Garuda Mall together and just when Ananya decides to disclose her love to Azad, he is killed in a bomb blast in front of the mall. Anand and the rest of the gang, especially Ananya, are devastated after knowing what happened and a case is filed in the police station. The proclaims that the incident was a suicide terrorist attack planned and executed by Azad and tries to close the investigation. Anand and his friends are monitored closely by the police. The police even arrest Nizar Ahmed, Abdu, Sayid Ali, and Lazer, Anand’s friends, in the context of them being Muslims. Knowing that Azad and their friends were not terrorists, Anand and his friends do not accept the police’s explanation. They decide to put their engineering skills to use and design various gadgets that help them fight against the police in order to prove them wrong. They even organise protests in the name of Azad to honour him. Adv, Vishwanath Iyer, Anand’s uncle helps them in their mission as well. The police, however, refuse to accept that their claims about Azad and the others were false and continue to fight in court. Eventually, using the devices that they had designed, Anand and his friends manage to gather enough evidence to prove the police wrong, but as he is about to submit the evidence, he is attacked critically by a few goons sent by the lead officer investigating the case. In the end, Vishwanath and Anand submit the evidence in court and finally win the case, thereby proving Azad and the others’ innocence and delivering justice to Azad. is the feature directorial debut of advertisement filmmaker Mridul Nair, and is produced by MAQTRO Motion Pictures, after their successful movies like C/o Sairabanu & Sunday Holiday According to Mridul Nair, the film is inspired by several real incidents and the story has been in his mind for eight years. The film was extensively shot in . Some of the college scenes were shot at , Mala, Thrissur. The film went on to run for 100 days in theatres. During the shooting of the film, witnessed ugly scenes after the junior artists playing cop roles reportedly the lead actors leading to a halt in filming. The music was composed, arranged, and produced by . Several critics hailed the music as a major highlight of the film. An album containing the for the film was released separately by Maqtro in 2021. It contains instrumental pieces composed by Rahul Raj. Malayalam daily appreciated the film for its good mixture of college campus life and sensitive contemporary issues, while also praising ‘s music. praised the film giving it a 3/5 rating, praising the music, while criticizing some comedy scenes “which seemed forced in”. gave a mixed review with a rating of 2.5/5, but dubbed the work of and Abhilash Balachandran in editing, and the music by as “major plus points”.</p>