Zee 5 which is known for coming up with different genre web series and shows in various languages is now coming up with his first original webseries in Malayalam titled Kammattam. The webseries based on some true incidents is streaming from 5 September 2025. Let us see how the webseries entertained viewers.
Kammattam story is inspired by real life incidents and a corporate banking scam that shook the state of Kerala some time back. The death of a respected planter, Samuel Umman (Joe Baby), in an accident by a moving car looks more than just an accident.
To uncover the truth, Inspector Antonio (Sudev Nair) steps in, and during the investigation, he uncovers more startling and shocking reasons. What are those shocking reasons, and where this investigation leads to form the rest of the developments.
Sudev Nair is good in the role of the police officer. However as he is not a Malayalee, his dialogues didnot create much impact to the Malayalee speakers. To the top of it at times instead of proceeding ahead with the investigation, he is seen flaunting his biceps and macho physique. Arul Sol played an important role. Ajay Vasudev, Akhil Kavalayoor, and Jordy Poonjar are fine. Jeo Baby and Sai Kumar are confined to one or two scenes. Jinis Bhaskar appeared as another investigative officer.
Kammattam story is penned and directed by Shan Thulasidharan. The webseries comes with six episodes each with a duration of around 115 minutes. The episodes are titled Conspiracy, Pursuit, Forgery, Exposure, Vengeance and Unraveled.The director stars the narration and the spends time to highlight the investigation process. This consumes the first three episodes. The episodes are short and even then one gets a feeling that the director didnot establish all the characters properly and the slow pace in the narration,affected the output. After passing most of the time in silly things ignoring the main aspects, the director rushed through the climax. However, when the episodes end, viewers heave a sigh of relief as they already get vexed with the snail pace in the narration.
The cinematography of Prakash Velayudhan highlighted the dark atmosphere throughout keeping in view the story and genre. However at times, one gets a weird feeling throughout. Ratheesh Mohanan's editing could have been far better as there are many drags and one cannot fault him as the plot turned out to be thin and one could have completed the entire story in just 30-45 minutes. The background score of 4 Musics is in sync with the narration. Production values are ok.
Altogether, Kammattam turns out to be a routine investigative thriller. Director Shan Thulasidharan came up with a good idea but he failed to narrate it in an interesting manner. Instead of going indepth during the investigation and highlighting the darker sides of each character and try to shock and thrill the viewers, he spent most of the time, showing off the investigation process which viewers are treated to many times. To the top of it, the thin plot and weak screenplay and insipid screenplay played the spoilsport. Had the director reworked on the script and turned the screenplay racy including more twists and turns things would have been different. Considering all these aspects, Cinejosh goes with a 2 rating for Kammattam.