Pennum Porattum

<p>The story unfolds in the fictional village of Pattada, where decades ago, residents gave up arms to broker peace.When a private conversation between a young woman named Charulatha (Raina Radhakrishnan) and her boyfriend Kumar (Dinesh Pe Po) is overheard and shared on community WhatsApp groups, the village erupts into a moral frenzy to shame her.Simultaneously, Kumar’s pet dog Suttu escapes from his cage and is falsely rumoured to be rabid, triggering a parallel mob chase.The film intercuts between these two hunts, the first one targeting a woman’s dignity and the second one pursuing an innocent animal, using the escalating chaos to expose the irrationality and hypocrisy of the villagers.Portions of the narrative are presented from Suttu’s point of view through an internal monologue voiced by Tovino Thomas .The film explores themes of mob mentality , moral policing , and the contrast between animal innocence and human hypocrisy.</p>