Ronth

Ronth

2025

"At par with "Mridhu Bhave Dhrida Kruthye" meaning-"Soft in Temperament, Firm in Action" which is the motto of Kerala Police, Writer-Director Shahi Kabir's Ronth starts as a psych evaluation of Dileesh Pothan, a cop who is at his wit's end, weathered by the daily battles of masculinity, anxiety, personal trauma traversing through a broken community at the fundamental level with religious, economic and caste fractures and his vacillating relationship as a mentor with a greenie played by Roshan Mathew who displays a fresh coat of conscience, forbearance and composure but everything eroding gradually overnight due to the constant exposure of distressing and high strung circumstances. Until, the whole thing becomes a reality check about the law enforcement's murky dispensation of truth and justice and a twist which flanked me so swiftly, abruptly and out of the blue that my mind went on overdrive for a minute due to the sudden curveball in the form of an unexpected and unbelievable link. The smooth pacing of Ronth, for most of its runtime is characteristic of its commentary about how repressive emotions due to the absence of systematic help woven into the service fester until Kabir steers it hard towards a turn nobody could see coming."