constant disturbance and demands for money. Aashaan is killed by Krishnan kicking him out the window of his high storey apartment built on the swamps on Kammattippaadam. Cast Dulquer Salmaan as Krishnan Vinayakan as Gangadharan Shaun Romy as Anitha (voice over by Srinda Arhaan ) Manikandan R Achari as Balakrishnan/Balan Chettan Vinay Forrt as Venu Shine Tom Chacko as Johnny Anil Nedumangad as Surendran aka Aashaan Amalda Liz as Rosamma P. Balachandran as Krishnan's father Rasika Dugal as Juhi Suraj Venjarammood as Sumesh Alencier Ley Lopez as Mathai Anjali Aneesh as Krishnan's mother Muthumani as Krishnan's sister Sreekanth Chandran as Martin (Police Officer) Shane Nigam as Sunny, Johnny's brother Ganapathi as Charlie Vijaykumar Prabhakaran as Paranki Majeed Soubin Shahir as Karate Biju (extended cameo) Sidharth Rajendran as Thola Benny. Divya Gopinath as Paranki Majeed's wife Shalu Rahim as young Krishnan Vishnu raghu as Abu Sudarshan Appangad as Achachan Background Ernakulam was a small town during the early 1950s, and during the first communist government of EMS Namboodiripad in 1957, small tracts of farm land were given to all landless community, mainly to the Dalit community, under the Land Reforms Ordinance Act. But in the later years, Ernakulam boomed into a metro city, and real estate skyrocketed. The swamps and paddy fields were converted to housing boards, luxury villas and apartments. Kammatipadam shows how the Dalits were forced by their own brethren (depicted in the film as Balan Chettan and gang) to sell out their lands to the real estate mafia, of which the members were born among them (represented by Surendran aka Aashaan in the film). It is an irony that Balan Chettan and Gangadharan who work as goons of the mafia themselves are grandsons of a staunch Communist grandfather (Achachan in the film). Father of Gangadharan is also depicted as strong believer of Communism, who reads only Deshabhimani, the official Communist daily. By the time Balan and the gang understood the reality, literally, they lost the ground under their feet and even their lives. Dalits had no right over the lands through generations, but when they got it, their own next generation's irresponsible and uncivil deeds, despite the warning from elders, led to losing those rights. The events in the movie show how undesirable events unfold within a community that does not understand the meaning of liberty and lacks unity and civility. Because of the rude deeds of few