Gu

lackluster, highly generic haunted‑house narrative. While it attempts to build a story around Gulikan, a folklore entity in Malayalam pop culture, the film makes no effort to break free from the genre’s age‑old tropes. Child artist Deva Nandha brings a lively, vivacious energy to the role of Minna, while Saiju Kurup does justice to his part as her anxious, scientifically minded father, Sai. The film initially teases an intriguing conflict between rational evidence and supernatural forces, but this promising setup is quickly abandoned. Instead, the script plunges into a checklist of exhausted horror cliches, weighed down further by outdated dialogue. The ancestral ritual backstory is bland and uninspired, and the film concludes with a lazy “tail‑end twist” that feels like the final, uninspired cherry atop two hours of recycled tropes. In the end, Gu masquerades as a children’s horror film but is little more than a bland, run‑of‑the‑mill ghost drama that fails to rise above predictability.