Fifty-year-old Nandu (Parthipan) is a cinema financier. The director, who took money from him on interest, committed suicide with his wife because he could not repay it. The death became the talk of the media.
Believing nandu to be the cause of the director's suicide, his wife and daughter hate him and leave the house and disappear. The police chase to arrest financier Nandu.
Taking his pistol and leaving, nandu hides in a once famous and now dilapidated ashram that is all too familiar to him. From there, he begins to narrate his life story, unbeknownst to the media, as recorded in 'audio' on his smartphone.
The story begins in 1971... We are introduced to nandu as a six-month-old baby trying to drink milk from the corpse of his mother, who was murdered by her husband and lying in a pool of blood. , the story narrates how far his 'shadow' has chased him.
If the time of the story is contemporary, the story takes place in the same place, and the sequence of events is told in a straight line, it is called 'simple narration'.That is, the land and time in which the characters travel are in different periods and places, and if the sequence of events is told in a forward-backward manner, it is called a 'non-linear' narrative.
Of these two, stories with simple narratives have been shot in one shot in many countries around the world. But when you see 'Shadow of the Night' with 'I - Linear' screenplay shot in one shot, it unfolds on the screen as a mesmerizing screen experience from the very first second till the last second when the story ends.
The first 30 minutes of 'Making' footage, which narrates how the crew shot this one-hour and 34-minute 'single shot' film, shows that tamil cinema is no less than hollywood in terms of imagination and technical mastery.Rahman's background music in enhancing the 'shot by shot' nature of the film, and his songs evoking the core of the story and its emotions, set the film on high.
The main character, who has only gone through ruins at various stages of life, rather than examining the flaws in the film, which narrates its story as a 'monologue', can marvel at this film for making such an impossible endeavor possible and surprising.