2017 · thriller · drama
Take Off
Directed by Mahesh Narayanan2h 19m2017
A group of Malayali nurses stranded in Iraq, must survive their capture by the extremists and reach out to the rescue team headed by the Indian government.
Our read: Take Off (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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