Detective (2007 film)

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Detective
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jeethu Joseph
Written by Jeethu Joseph
Produced byMahi
Starring Suresh Gopi
Sindhu Menon
Prajod Kalabhavan
Madhupal
Jagathy Sreekumar
Baiju Santhosh
Sai Kumar
CinematographyAnandakuttan
Edited byP. C. Mohanan
Music by Rajamani
Distributed bySuper Release
Release date
  • 16 February 2007 (2007-02-16)
Running time
135 minutes
CountryIndia
Language Malayalam

Detective is a 2007 Malayalam suspense thriller film directed by Jeethu Joseph in his directoral debut [1] [2] .The film features Suresh Gopi in a dual role with Sindhu Menon in the lead female role. [3] [4]

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Plot

Rashmi is found dead under mysterious circumstances and her death is reportedly declared a suicide. Rashmi's family is in a deep sorrow and her father blames his son-in-law (Rashmi's husband) Mohan Kumar, a young and a bold politician, for his daughter's death. Soon, everyone starts doubting Mohan and the party terminates him from being elected as an MP and appoints Jose as the new MP. However, Jose didn't believe any false statements of the society and was sure of Mohan's innocence. James Joseph convinced everyone of Mohan being the culprit and had him arrested briefly.

As the case proceeds, Shyam Prasad is appointed to investigate the case. He is assisted by Basher, detective Chandrachoodan and Shekhar. Everyone tries hard to find out the reason behind Rashmi's apparent suicide. Shyam and team go to Rashmi's house to enquire her whereabouts. Her father doesn't say much but claims that Mohan was the actual reason for Rashmi's death. Suresh, their relative gives further clarification about Mohan and Rashmi's marriage.

John Samuel and James decide to get rid of Shyam and send some goons in order to finish him off. But Shyam courageously defeats all and arrests John Samuel and James. Shyam continues his investigation further. After many researches and gathering proofs such as fingerprints, Shyam discovers that the Rashmi's was indeed a murder, rather than a suicide.

In a conference with the IG and the Chief Minister, Shyam puts forth the facts, to the people in the conference Hall that Rashmi's murder was committed by Sumesh, who was Rashmi's ex-boyfriend. The crowd begin having doubts, on how a simple man like Sumesh could kill his own girlfriend. Shyam and team brings Sumesh's friend to gather more information about the events that had happened the night when Sumesh reached Rashmi's house. Shyam also takes in Sumesh to question him why on he had done it. But Sumesh maintains that he hasn't killed Rashmi. However when Basheer and Shekhar provoke him, he gets in a rage and finally admits that he killed Rashmi, saying that Shyam and team have no proof regarding the murder. He injures himself and rushes back to the conference Hall to fool everyone. But whatever he disclosed to Shyam was already displayed on a screen. Shyam knew how Sumesh had done it but was keen on making Sumesh confess.

In a flashback, Sumesh and Rashmi studied in the same college. Even though both had fallen in love with each other, Rashmi soon began avoiding Sumesh as per her family's wish. Sumesh understands her and tells her to follow her parents' wish. But shortly, he visits her and overhears her conversation with her parents. He came to know that it was Rashmi who wanted to marry Mohan and her parents were against it, as they were afraid of the insecurities in marrying a politician and she was cheating Sumesh all the while. So in order to seek revenge, Sumesh decided to kill Rashmi after she married Mohan. He seeks the help of his friend and got addicted to drugs. He learned the schedule of Rashmi in the absence of Mohan and stole the key of Rashmi's bedroom to make a duplicate.

One night after arriving from Bangalore, Sumesh gets down from bus and rushes towards Rashmi's house without his friend's knowledge. Meanwhile, Mohan went away from the home after an argument with Rashmi. Sumesh waited for his chance and brought the required tools along with a bottle of strong poison with him. At first he poisoned a jar of milk kept in the room. But the plan failed. Subsequently, he had climbed up a ladder to reach the ventilator and attached some pieces of plastic pipes after tying a thread on its end. As Rashmi slept, Sumesh bought the thread quietly to Rashmi's mouth. He then sent poison to Rashmi's mouth via the pipe and thread. That was how Rashmi lost her control and died. After that he burnt all the materials including bottles, gloves and dropped the bottle that contained poison to make everyone believe that it was a suicide.

Back to the present, Shyam further explains that he understood the method of murder by observing the poison drops being dropped from Rashmi's bed to the ventilator in a straight line and often the drops were of different sizes. He further explains that the culprit had entered the house to switch off the inverter. This was to keep the ceiling fan out of use in order to hold the thread used for the murder steady.

The police then arrests Sumesh and the Chief Minister and the IG appreciate Shyam while Rashmi's family apologizes to Mohan as his innocence was proven. Mohan and Shyam happily smile at each other. The film ends as Shyam Prasad and team leave the conference hall.

Cast

Box office

The film was successful at the box office. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Detective Malayalam Movie review-Detective film review-Detective review-Detective review-Mayavy review".
  2. ↑ "Detective review. Detective Malayalam movie review, story, rating - IndiaGlitz.com".
  3. ↑ "Detective". Sify . Archived from the original on 18 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Detective review
  5. ↑ "Unforgettable Dectective roles in Mollywood". The Times of India . 13 July 2013.
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