It shows her as an understanding and loving partner to Allen, which makes his two-time betrayal harder to stomach for the viewer. The film also does not take the easy way out by conveniently stereotyping Sherin as a nagging wife or depicting her in a negative light in any way. While George Kutty protects his family from an outsider, Allen leaves his wife to her death, becoming the enemy himself. George Kutty's world is his family while Allen, despite having a wonderful wife and child, decides it isn't enough for him. Allen and George Kutty, in fact, are polar opposites. It's much more difficult to empathise with Allen in this domestic thriller than say with George Kutty (Mohanlal) of Drishyam, who covers up the inadvertent murder of a young man who intended to sexually assault his wife and daughter. By the time he changes his mind, it's too late. When he finds Sherin lying on the roadside after she meets with an accident, he decides it's the best-case scenario and does not take her to the hospital. In Kaanekkaane, Allen (Tovino Thomas) not only cheats on his devoted wife Sherin (Shruti Ramachandran), he's also unfair to the 'other woman' Sneha (Aishwarya Lekshmi), leading her on without confronting the issue. The film joins the relatively short list of domestic thrillers in Malayalam where uncomfortable and horrifying family secrets tumble out of the closet, and the focus is not so much on the investigation (like in Oru CBI Diary Kurippu) but on how this affects them psychologically. Especially because the perpetrator, in this case, has no mitigating factors that make us take a more kindly view of his actions. The film, directed by Manu Ashokan and released on SonyLIV, has led to interesting debates about crime and punishment. The film is an exploration of guilt and mercy, with the former serving as the punishment for the perpetrator and the latter becoming a path to closure and liberation for those most affected by the crime. The recent Malayalam thriller Kaanekkaane is about a man who has an extramarital affair and makes a morally and ethically wrong choice due to a momentary lapse in judgement.