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Balan - The Boy review: Chidambaram's haunting swerve

Chidambaram follows Manjummel Boys with a stranger, lonelier film: a mother and son outrunning their past by becoming new people. Farzana Palathingal is superb.

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A weary woman in a faded blue shirt and green skirt stands in a half-built concrete building, holding a cloth bundle. Farzana Palathingal's mother keeps herself and her son alive by never staying anyone for long.