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The biggest strength of the film is its intelligent and wonderfully constructed screenplay. While there might be some who might find the initial 15-20 minutes of the film a bit of a drag, I assure you that every second of those minutes are important and necessary for what unfolds in the next 2 hours. A thriller involving time loop is not something new.

Hollywood has milked the genre and similar plot elements in many successful and well-made films. The makers of Maanaadu accept and appreciate that fact in a scene through the dialogs between the characters and this makes the film strangely self-aware and yet believable. What makes this film special are the plot elements and how the screenplay unfolds.

The protagonist is clueless, to begin with. With every subsequent iteration, the story gets messier but the protagonist gets smarter. Khaaliq gradually realizes who the killer is. He traces the killer to his hideout and unfolds a sinister plot to cause a riot through the next few iterations. This is followed by the unveiling of the man who is behind the sinister murder plot and why is doing the same.

The same man then in one of the iterations gives the protagonist a vital clue that ultimately leads to his downfall. As the protagonist inches closer to putting an end to the tragedy, the leverage that Khaaliq has due to the loop keeps getting thinner and thinner.

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