I was really excited to watch Govind Vishnu‘s debut directorial, Daveed, starring none other than Antony Varghese Pepe. And I must say, it was a tiny bit different from what I expected it to be.

The film follows an extremely clichéd underdog story that has been told a million times before by many other movies. Pepe‘s character, Aashiq Abu, is a regular bouncer who gets into trouble with an international boxer and has to settle the score somehow.

But the film chooses to focus on how this affects Abu‘s family and the people around him, making him face his past rather than going all out on the rivalry. I really enjoyed this new style of storytelling, as it helped me connect with the characters more.

While I really appreciate the physical effort Pepe put in for this film to transform himself, his performance was on a similar...