
You can take away the police uniform but you cannot take away his police instinct. This is the message of V M Vinu's Malayalam film Face 2 Face, starring Mammootty.
The director, who made some big family entertainers in the last decade, gets into thriller mode with this film. Mammootty plays a suspended police officer, who will not curb his investigative instincts just because he is robbed of his uniform temporarily.
Balachandran (Mammootty), a Circle Inspector, has made a habit of being suspended from work because he has a stronger spine (by his own admission) than others of his ilk. He has made a mini fortune for himself by broking real estate deals and investing in stock markets.
A divorcee with a weakness for drink and rummy, he gets involved with the investigation of the gruesome killing of the progeny of a political bigwig. His investigation runs parallel to the police investigation, done by SP Ramdas (Siddique). He gets the video recorded statements of the witnesses with the help of CI Latheef (Kalabhavan Mani),
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