Roshan Mathew’s Ibrahim in ‘Kuruthi’, streaming on Amazon Prime, takes the actor through a maze of emotions

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Ibrahim’s search for closure after a tragedy takes him through the crucible of vengeance and fury. For actor Roshan Mathew, Ibrahim, his character in Manu Warrier’s Malayalam film Kuruthi, is a new one in his oeuvre. “Ibrahim loses his father, brothers and his loved ones and is struggling with the loss every day, even with the will to live. That is where the story of Kuruthi begins. A series of events make him question many things he believes in. It puts him in a situation where he is forced to fight, a fight he was not prepared for. Eventually, he has to face his demons, physically and emotionally,” says Roshan, about the film that is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. On his second outing with Prithviraj after Anjali Menon’s Koode, Roshan says the senior actor’s passion for cinema and discipline inspire him. “For Kuruthi, we were together from the first day to the last day of the shoot. Day in and day out, I noticed that he comes in with the same level of energy and it stays till pack up. It is the process of making a film that gives him the energy.”