[3] The film stars Yogi Babu, and Gouri G. Kishan with M. S. Bhaskar, Chinni Jayanth, Jesse Fox-Allen, Chaams, Jangiri Madhumitha, Sha Ra, Kulappulli Leela, and Aakshath Das in supporting roles.
During World War II, Japan, as part of the Axis powers, launched aerial bombing attacks on British-ruled areas of Colombo, Vizag, and Kakkinandhiyavada.
As a result, normal life was severely disrupted, and essential activities like medical and judicial services were forced to happen in open grounds and camps, which operated only once a week.
Buckingham Soldier and grandson of a wanderer) The next day after the bombing, in the middle of Bay of Bengal, a standstill boat is shown with Kumaran and Irwin Thomas attacking ruthlessly.
The sound of a bullet is heard and the screen cuts black Chapter - 2: Adimai Mandugalum Japan Gundugalum (transl.
Slaves dumb and Japanese bomb) Kumaran, a fisherman from Kasimedu and his grandmother Muthumaari meet his sister, Alamu, and her fiancé, Rangan, at the Santhome shore to discuss their upcoming wedding, planned for the day after tomorrow.
Meanwhile, at the medical camp, Raja, a writer from Palakkad; Lal, a money-lender native of Rajasthan; Narayanan, a Brahmin, with his daughter Lakshmi; and Vijaya, a pregnant Telugu woman with her son Magesh are present.
It is shown that British officers are in search for a suspect named Subbaiyah, while Muthaiyya, a retired librarian from Presidency College who hails from Theni, is at the civilian court camp.
2 Oars to travel and a lot of brawl and quarrel) Kumaran rows the boat, announcing they need to cover 12 miles to evade police patrol.
The king arrived, dear and stood sense deprived here) Raja notices the boat is tilting to one side, and Kumaran explains it's an old Kerala canoe designed for 6-7 passengers.
Lal finds a floating radio box and pretends to repair it, while Vijaya secretly scratches the boat to create a hole.
Ten hours later, water starts seeping in again, and a meteorological alert announces an upcoming cyclone in the Bay of Bengal.
A mouse unruffled A blame unsolved) Muthaiyya resumes his interrogation, asking each person to share their reason for wanting to stay alive and then decide on humanitarian grounds.
Kumaran claims Narayanan's community has enjoyed government perks, while he and his grandmother have no sentimental reason to live and refuses to jump off.
Sixteen hours later, Lal performs a puppetry show depicting British looting, enraging Irwin, who slaps him, losing a rotten tooth.
Muthumaari prepares a spear to kill the shark, while Vijaya volunteers to jump off, requesting others to care for her son's eye surgery.
He fetches tubers to eat, causing dizziness and sleep in those who consume them, except Kumaran and Lakshmi, who bond, and she gifts him an embroidered kerchief.
Twenty Eight hours later, a brawl between Kumaran and Raja results in the death of the pet mouse, Pechi, delighting Irwin and Narayanan.
Elephant Enraged Army helter-skelter ran scared) Irwin lures Lal with a commercial space offer in George Town in exchange for a favor.
He opens the oxygen cylinder, containing a Japanese war bomb, SD 50, smuggled to India to blast Madras harbor.
Before dying, Muthaiyya hands over a photograph of him with Subhas Chandra Bose, Rajan, and Senapathy revealing they directed Japan to bomb Madras.
The shark appears again, and they find a letter from Chokku, warning about Rangan's playboy nature and requesting Kumaran to stop the wedding.
With time running out, a shark nearby, a bomb underwater, and a hole in the boat, Kumaran insists that two people must jump to save the others as he needs to stop his sister's marriage.
Tramp in a garden He has no place of his own) 14 days later, the boatmates visit Irwin, who claims that Kumaran and his grandmother were likely eaten by the shark, as there is no news about them.
Lal is returning to Rajasthan, Vijaya has arranged for her son's operation in Bombay, and Raja has met his leader in Calcutta.
"[18] Avinash Ramachandran of The Indian Express rated the film two out of five stars and wrote that "Boat is filled with so many holes of ‘what-ifs’ and ‘could-haves’ that it has no way to go except down, and unfortunately, it does leaving no survivors.
"[19] Bhuvanesh Chandar of The Hindu wrote, "Boat is excessively dialogue-heavy, made worse by the loud score drowning out any space for silence.
"[2] Jayabhuvaneshwari B of The New Indian Express rated the film one-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote that "Boat promises a thrilling voyage but instead finds itself adrift in a sea of cliches.
The director, as the captain, steers the vessel towards a rocky shore of heavy-handed social commentary, rather than the open sea of human complexity.
"[20] Anusha Sundar of OTTplay gave it two out of five stars and wrote, "Boat feels underwhelming and heavy at the same time, simply because the film appears to be stuck in pretty much the same spot it began.