One can either serve the main course straight, or start with a wholesome appetiser that would raise the expectations of the main course. In Kannur Squad, debutant director Roby Varghese Raj chooses the latter, beginning with a short investigation that would tell us about the style of working of this special team of police officers, their proclivities and their Achilles’ heel, before plunging into the wildgoose chase that is at the heart of the film.
By the time they take up the task to nab the culprits behind the cold-blooded murder of a businessman inside his house in Kasargod, the audience gets an almost accurate measure of each of the four members. Probably because flawed police officers with their personal lives beset with troubles is no longer a novelty in police procedurals, Kannur Squad does not overplay that part. Here, for a change, one of them is facing serious corruption charges, leading to rifts within the team. This rift is a crucial element in the film, with various aspects of it reappearing over the course of the narrative.
