Original name: Level Cross
English name: Level Cross
Year: 2024
Run time: 116 minutes
Language: Malayalam
Type (Colour/Black & White): Colour
Country: India
Director: Arfaz Ayub
Producer: Ramesh P Pillai
Cast: Asif Ali, Amala Paul, Sharafudheen
Screenplay: Arfaz Ayub
Cinematographer: Appu Prabhakar
Editor: Deepu Joseph
Sound Designer: Jayadevan Chakkadath
Music Composer: Vishal Chandrashekhar
Costume Designer: Linta Jeethu
Production Designer: Prem Navas
Production Company: Abhishek Films
Arfaz Ayub is an Indian filmmaker, actor, and writer who made his directorial debut with Level Cross (2024), a critically acclaimed Malayalam psychological thriller. Holding degrees in Mass Communication and Video Production, he began his career assisting his father, Adam Ayub, a pioneer in Malayalam television. Over a decade, Arfaz has worked with renowned directors in Hindi, Malayalam, and Telugu industries as Co-director, Associate Director and First AD. He played a pivotal role in major projects, including Drishyam 2 (Malayalam), Drushyam 2 (Telugu), Kooman, 12th Man, Ram, The Body, Torbaaz, and Horror Story.
When a modern pretty girl falls into the lap of an unruly man one strange day, two worlds meet. Their differences in culture, mentality, appearance, and even the way they look at life, come from two extremes of the spectrum. In spite of those superficial differences, they find uncanny resemblance about life, emotions and basic humanity. As they slowly try to fit into each other's lives, there comes the third man. The man brings in a contradictive perspective - a new narrative. Set in an imaginary land beyond time and space, this is a story of survival – a play of truth and lies, wrongs and rights, trust and betrayal.