Kanathaya Penkutty

A girl goes missing after escaping from a bus accident. Her family and the police try to make sense of what happened to her.

Cast

Jayabharathi

as Bhavani

Gopi

as Devadas Menon

V K Sreeraman

as Circle Inspector Nambiar

Ramachandran V

as Police SP Mohammad Basheer

Mammootty

as Ram Mohan

Thilakan

as Matthai

Jagathy Sreekumar

as Vasu

Manavalan Joseph

as Kuttettan

Achankunju

as Achankunju

Dominic Alummoodan

as Abdu

Reviews

Tejas Nair

Everything easily falls in line in Kanathaya Penkutty (The Missing Girl) but still is a riveting watch, where the investigation of a missing school-going girl leads to baffling explorations of the concept of one's school life, family, and social environment. The dialogues are humdrum as the film tri...

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