Plot
A serial killing case is terorrizing the city, with 9 people that belong to 3 families have been brutally murdered. After every murder, the killer leaves some texts on the wall, indicating that he would kill 10 people in total. The case is transferred to senior police officer Derrick Abraham (Mammootty), a brave and honest police officer. Derrick quickly solves the case and captures the murderer by analyzing the killing pattern.
Three years later, Derrick is shown in the jail trying to visit his younger brother Phillip Abraham (Anson Paul ), who refuses by servering the ties between them. Flashback then shows that Derrick and Phillip's parents died in an accident when they were both young. Derrick raised Phillip with love. The two brothers had a very close relation. When Phillip was in college, he had a girlfriend named Aleena (Tarushi Jha). They loved each other and the both families approved their relationship. However, one day, Aleena was found dead and Phillip was arrested as the prime suspect.
Derrick has some enemies in the police force: Dinesh (Siddique) and Narayana (Yog Japee), who is also Derrick's superior. When Dinesh and Narayana's sons were involved in a kidnapping case, Derrick did not try to protect them, but chose to stand by justice, like he always did. He arrested Dinesh's son and threw him in jail, and Narayana's son, fearing the consequences, committed suicide when Derrick was trying to arrest him. This incident had planted deep hatred in the mind of Dinesh and Narayana toward Derrick. Narayana assigns Phillip's case to Derrick, knowing that Derrick will try his best to prove his younger brother's innocence, which would however crash his long standing public image of being an honest police officer, as the public would then think Derrick used his police influence to make his younger brother walk free.
There's no strong evidence to prove Phillip has murdered Aleena, but some circumstantial ones. Phillips claims that he could not remember what happened at the night of Aleena's murder, as he passed out after drinking too much alcohol with his three friends, and he stayed at those three friends' place that night. Derrick visit those friends of Phillip to inquire, but they claim that Phillip was not with them that night. They tell Derrick that Phillip had too much alcohol that night, then used coccaine, before heading out to meet Aleena. Derrick, who did not know Phillip was a drug addict and always believed him to be a good boy, is shocked to know that and now believes Phillip indeed killed Aleena.
Phillip is later found guilty by the court and sentenced to life in prison, which makes him hate Derrick due to his inaction to save him. Some time after Phillip's conviction, one of his friends that he mentioned earlier, visit Derrick and confesses out of guilt. He tells Derrick that Phillip had a lot of alcohol with them, and they forced him to take coccaine, which was the first time for him. Phillip passed out later, before Aleena called him to ask for meetup. The phone call was picked up by them, who were drunk and high at that moment. They then headed to the location of Aleena and tried to misbehave with her. Aleena resisted and was accidentally killed by them during the resistance. They feared the consequence, so they planted those circumstantial evidences against Phillip.
One day after the confession, this friend of Phillip commits suicide. Derrick visits the prosecutor with this information, hoping to reopen the case, but is rejected as he has no evidence to prove this story, as the man who confessed is dead. He then visits the other two friends of Phillip, demanding them to surrender. They refuse and beat Derrick.
Derrick visits Phillip in the jail to apologize, but Phillip refuses to forgive him, saying it's too late, and that Derrick should've believed him earlier. He even vows to kill Derrick if he gets out. Their conversation is overheard by Dinesh, who later approaches Phillip with an deal: he would help Phillip escape from jail, in exchange of Phillip killing Derrick. He also promises Phillip to send him out of the country once the mission is done. Phillip agrees and is soon out of jail with the help of Dinesh.
Outside the jail, Phillip attacks Derrick, but only manages to injure him. Phillip's two other friends, who were responsible for Aleena's death, are found dead, apparently killed by Phillip. Derrick then receives police protection. After another failed attempt to kill Derrick, Phillip kidnaps Derrick's ex-wife's son, and demands Rs 10 million as ransom, which must be delivered by Derrick alone. Derrick follows the demand while being watched closely by police. After delivering the ransom money, Phillip's men quickly picks it up and successfully evade police. Police also lose contact with Derrick.
The police force is now panicked, wondering what could happen to Derrick and the boy. Inspector Sukamaran, Derrick's junior who has been with him for some time, arrives with a new story that explains what actually happened. The whole thing, from Phillip's escape from jail and the kidnapping, was a plan made by Derrick and Phillip. They pretended to hate each other in the jail intentionally in front of Dinesh, making Dinesh help Phillip escape. They then killed Phillp's two friends together, and Phillip's attack on Derrick was also scripted. Sukumaran also reminds the other police that there's no evidence to prove this story, and he learned it after seeing Derrick's shoeprtint at the murder scenes of Phillip's friends, which is not enough to convict Derrick. He also predicts that Derrick will soon return with the kidnapped boy safely, after losing the ransom money, which he actually handed to Phillip to let him escape the country.
Just then, as predicted by Sukumaran, Derrick shows up with the boy, claiming he lost the ransom money and the suspect Phillip.
Production
Produced under Goodwill Entertainments, producer Joby George announced Abrahaminte Santhathikal on 7 September 2017, on Mammootty's birthday. It is the directorial debut of Shaji Padoor, an associate director in Malayalam cinema for 22 years, and is scripted by Haneef Adeni. [3] [4] [5] IMammootty had been asking Shaji to direct a film for over 15 years and had given an open date. [6] [7] Mammootty plays an IPS officer named Derrick Abraham in the film. Shaji said that the plot revolves around an investigation, but it is not a dark thriller, and the protagonist appears uniformly in one or two shots only. The other cast and crew had yet to be finalised as of January. [8]
Anson Paul, Kaniha, Siddique, Renji Panicker, Suresh Krishna and Tamil actor Yog Japee were confirmed by December end. [9] With a puja event in Kochi on 1 January 2018, cinematographer Alby, editor Mahesh Narayan, composer Gopi Sundar and make-up artist Ronex Xavier joined the crew. [10] At the event, Mammootty introduced his and Anson Paul's roles as "Abraham's two children". [11] Anson and Ratheesh Krishnan, who plays a role, were also Mammootty's suggestions in the cast. [12] [13] Principal photography started on 5 January 2018 in Kolenchery, Ernakulam. Mammootty was shot on that day at a house in Choondy. [14] Kaniha chose as a Mammootty film and joined in January's second week, playing a public prosecutor. [15] [16] Tarushi, who plays Anson's love interest, was shot for ten days. [17] Filming ended by mid-March. [18] [19]
