10 Kalpanakal

<p>is told as a narration of a former , Shazia Akbar, to students of law and criminology. She narrates the strangest case in her career, which includes forest officer Davis George; Davis’s family; a girl named Angel, whom Davis considered like his daughter; and Victor, a psychopath. Angel is found dead in a forest after a festival. Shazia, a police officer, enters the scene but is unable solve the case due to the lack of a convincing suspect with a motive. Years later, she runs upon the case of a probable psychopath, Victor, who abducts girls and women, locks them up in his house, and brutally kills them. Victor had the habit of storing photographs of his victims to-be. Among his photo gallery of victims to-be, a photo of Angel is discovered. Shazia contacts Davis and they try to get the truth out of Victor. Davis is suspicious of Vakkachan, whom he distrusts, but Vakkachan says that it is not him and that if Davis puts more accusations on him to tarnish his image, he will end Davis. Victor requests to have a conversation with Davis, and tells him that he was merely an eye-witness to the actual murder and that the original killer was John, Davis’s son. Heartbroken, Davis attempts to pacify himself that it was not John. But , such as John coming home late, his collection of photos of her, and his tensed expression on his return, all point to John as the killer. David brings John to a statue of , asking him to beg for forgiveness, and takes out his . He attempts to kill his own son, but John later reveals that he did meet Angel on the night she died, but the last time he saw her was before returning home. On the way to court with Shazia, Victor reveals that, in telling Davis that John killed Angel, he intended to thwart Davis’s suspicion and cloud his mind with emotions. The court relieves Victor of all accusations due to lack of evidence. Shazia considers this a failure. She ends her speech and later goes to visit Davis, whose house was near the institution she lectured in. She talks with Davis and leaves, but returns to the house again and that Davis has imprisoned Victor. Victor begs Shazia to convince Davis to kill Victor, but Shazia and Davis smile at each other and the Shazia walks away leaving the Victor to suffer. The songs were composed by Mithun Eshwer. sang her final song “Ammapoovinum” in the film before her retirement. The song was released at an event in on 4 October 2016. A critic from wrote that “10 Kalpanakal re-treads lots of familiar essentials you have already seen in thrillers, but it has what it takes to keep you interested for two hours five minutes”.</p>