Aviyal

This second edition of Stone Bench Creations' anthology of short films contains four shorts with a prelude that are linked by their genre.

Cast

Nivin Pauly

as Eli

Bobby Simha

as Gangster

Rajeev Pillai

as Garudan

Arjunan Nandakumar

Amrutha Srinivasan

Deepak Paramesh

Roju

Jinu Joseph

Ramachandran Durairaj

Ranga

Reviews

timesofindia

How do you introduce an incestuous romantic comedy, an action thriller with a twist, a ghost comedy, and a tale within a tale? Aviyal answers it with Shameer Sultan's wacky prelude that has an actor talking. It is only when it ends that we realise that he has been preparing us for what is to follow....

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