• Director(s)

    Jeo Baby

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    23/11/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    112m

  • Cast

    Mammootty, Jyotika, Anagha Akku

Film

Kaathal

homophobia references, mild sex references, language, brief bloody images

A respected local politician faces public scandal and personal upheaval when his wife asks for a divorce in this thoughtful Malayalam language drama, which addresses the issue of sexuality with empathy and sensitivity.…

A respected local politician faces public scandal and personal upheaval when his wife asks for a divorce in this thoughtful Malayalam language drama, which addresses the issue of sexuality with empathy and sensitivity.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

language

sex

discrimination

injury detail

threat and horror

rude humour

drugs

  • Director(s)

    Jeo Baby

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    23/11/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    112m

  • Cast

    Mammootty, Jyotika, Anagha Akku

homophobia references, mild sex references, language, brief bloody images
Classified Date:
21/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Dreamz Entertainment Limited
violence
There are passing undetailed references to hypothetical cases of domestic abuse. A group of students are briefly shown shoving one other and making verbal threats during an argument.
language
Bad language includes ‘bloody’, ‘God’, ‘hell’ and ‘damn’.
sex
There are occasional mild references to couples ‘sleeping together’ and ‘fulfilling marital obligations’. During a divorce case, a lawyer asks a woman how often she has sex with her husband, and goes on to make further comments relating frequency of sexual activity to marital ‘health’. Other scenes contain brief and undetailed references to adultery.
discrimination
There are references to homosexuality having been criminalised in India until 2018, and to many gay people having been forced to conceal their sexuality and enter into unhappy marriages with members of the opposite sex. A man admits to pressuring his son into marrying a woman despite knowing he was gay, and later makes an emotional apology for his actions. In another scene a woman refers to a man as a ‘migrant loser’; there is also infrequent casual use of discriminatory terms referring to mental health, such as ‘nutcase’ and ‘crazy’. The subject is handled sensitively, and the film carries a clear and positive anti-discrimination message.
injury detail
An animated production logo at the start of the film contains a brief black-and-white image of bodies lying in dark pools of blood at a crime scene.

  • Classified date

    21/11/2023

  • Language

    Malayalam