Aravind 2 | Theatres List

When a movie starts with a furious chase, a murder mystery, and the hints of a political conspiracy, it can't be too much to expect that the story not degenerate into a generic slasher flick, where all evil is explainable by virtue of the slasher's "psycho"-ness. But then again, perhaps it is.

In the closing credits of Aravind 2, director Shekhar Suri names the iconic Friday The 13th as his inspiration. And true to the claim, nearly an hour spent over character-establishment later, a masked man with a machete slices said characters into pieces, rendering said establishment futil....