John Luther (film)

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John Luther
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Theatrical release poster
Directed byAbhijith Joseph
Written byAbhijith Joseph
Produced byThomas P Mathew
Christeena Thomas
(co-producer)
Starring Jayasurya
Elango Kumaravel
Cinematography Roby Varghese Raj
Edited by Praveen Prabhakar
Music by Shaan Rahman
Production
company
Alonsa Films
Distributed byCentury films
Release date
  • 27 May 2022 (2022-05-27)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

John Luther is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film directed by Abhijith Joseph in his directorial debut and stars Jayasurya in the lead role. principal photography of the film began in November 2021. [1]

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John Luther was released on 27 May 2022 to positive reviews from critics. [2]

Plot

John Luther is an honest and efficient Circle Inspector posted at Munnar. His sister Leena is having an engagement ceremony but as usual he is late as he is a committed workaholic police officer who always gives primary importance to his duty. He does arrive the night before but leaves soon after the function is over. John is in charge of the investigation of a motorbike accident that happened the night before where the driver Prakashan died on the spot but the pillion rider is missing. Using CCTV visuals and photographs taken by the passengers of the bus on which the body fell, they identify the pickup truck which hit the bike. But the pickup driver said he left the pillion rider on the road and does not know what happened to him.

During this time, a school boy also goes missing from around the same area. John is unable to find any links between the two cases but feels they are somehow related. John notices a pickup truck that was on the spot of the first crime scene which did not have number plate on its side. Now police is on the lookout for this truck.

John confronts two goons from another high profile case he is investigating and ends up in a fight. During the fight, one of the goons hits John on his left side of his ears using a tube light and John gets seriously injured. At the hospital, doctor informs John and his family that he lost hearing of his left ear completely and has only 20% hearing ability on the right ear. John takes a month's leave and starts using a hearing aid and a voice recorder.

When John comes back, another women named Geetha also goes missing. During that investigation, he finds a house where the pickup truck was spotted by the neighbors. Upon questioning the owner Joby, he finds the pick up truck and find who drives the truck usually. The driver is Venkit, a Tamil daily laborer who just started 4 months back with them. He is now in Chennai trying to sell the house owners truck because his business is doing bad. John questions who brought Venkit to them and it leads to Venkit's uncle Prasad who retired and went back home for health reasons. John goes to Prasad's hometown in Kolukkumalai and interrogates Prasad.

Prasad says that he already knew that Venkit was a psycho. He was a bright medical student who passed MBBS with a rank, but was debarred for practicing medicine during his house surgency thereby accidentally killing a girl who was his patient. This made him practice surgery on dead bodies to satisfy the surgeon within. Prasad saw the all the murders. Prasad falls ill and he is admitted to a nearby hospital. John gets the body parts of the 3 victims.

John gets a list of medical students who were debarred and finds out that Venkit's name was not in the list. But he finds Prasad's name in that list and realises that Prasad is the real serial killer. He goes back to the hospital to capture him. By that time, Prasad manages to make John's colleague ASI Rajan unconscious and starts performing surgery on him. John and Prasad ends up in a fight in which Prasad severely injures John, but John manages to kill Prasad. John later recovers from his injuries completely at the hospital.

In the final scene of the movie, John submitting the closing report of the crimes while his superior officer tells the DGP on the phone that John is going to be assigned to another case. [3] [4]

Cast

Production

Debutant director Abhijith Joseph [5] approached actor Jayasurya with an investigation thriller and the project got green signal from the award-winning actor. The film was bankrolled by Thomas P Mathew for Alonsa Films with Christeena Thomas as co-producer. Actors Deepak Parambol [6] and Siddique were the first to join the cast and the film completed its first schedule in Vagamon followed by the final schedule at Ernakulam. Director Abhijith Joseph said that the character ‘John Luther’ is not inspired from the iconic ‘DCI John Luther’ played by actor Idris Elba from the British television series Luther . [7] Century Films has acquired the distribution rights of the film. [8] While actor Deepak Parambol completed his dubbing on 30 December 2021, [6] actor Jayasurya started his dubbing on 22 January 2022. [7]

Reception

S.R.Praveen of The Hindu mentioned that "the film is an evenly paced thriller that falters only in the last act, in an attempt to deliver a shocking twist". [9] Anjana George of The Times of India rated the film with 3/5 stars, stating that the film would make every Jayasurya fans happy. [10] The News Minute rated the film with 2.5/5 stars, mentioning that "for nearly two hours, the film flows by almost smoothly, ticking several boxes of a gripping thriller, but in the last 20 minutes, digs its own hole, and falls right into it". [11] Sajin Shrijith of Cinema Express rated the film with 3/5 stars, stated that "the film succeeds in its aim of keeping one engaged for two hours, but when you compare it to films like Drishyam 2 and Antakshari, it comes up short". [12] Princy Alexander of Manoramaonline.com stated that "the movie began promisingly, but wastes a lot of time trying to find closure, thus resulting in a lag product, despite a decent number of twists and turns. [13]

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References

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  2. ↑ "ജയസൂര്യയുടെ ജോണ്‍ ലൂഥര്‍ മെയ് 27ന് തിയേറ്ററുകളിലെത്തും" (in Malayalam). Mathrubhumi. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  3. ↑ "'John Luther' trailer: Jayasurya to play a cop with unilateral hearing loss". The Times of India . 21 April 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  4. ↑ "സസ്‌പെന്‍സ് ക്രൈം ത്രില്ലറുമായി ജയസൂര്യ; 'ജോണ്‍ ലൂതര്‍' ട്രെയിലറിന് മികച്ച സ്വീകാര്യത" (in Malayalam). Samayam Malayalam. 21 April 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  5. ↑ Rajan, Silpa (17 November 2021). "'John Luther' director Abhijith Joseph: Jayasurya will be seen as a circle inspector in the film - EXCLUSIVE". The Times of India . Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  6. 1 2 "Jayasurya's John Luther: Deepak Parambol shares an exciting update on the film". The Times of India . 31 December 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  7. 1 2 "Jayasurya kick-starts dubbing for his upcoming thriller film 'John Luther', see pic". The Times of India . 22 January 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  8. ↑ "സർക്കിൾ ഇൻസ്‌പെക്ടർ ജോൺ ലൂഥർ ചുമതലയേൽക്കുന്നു; ബ്രേക്കിംഗ് ന്യൂസുമായി ജയസൂര്യ" (in Malayalam). Asianet News. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  9. ↑ Praveen, SR (28 May 2022). "'John Luther' movie review: Jayasurya's evenly paced thriller falters only in the last act". The Hindu . Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  10. ↑ George, Anjana (7 April 2022). "John Luther Movie Review : John Luther Movie Review : A deft thriller bogged down by some cliches". The Times of India . Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  11. ↑ "John Luther review: Jayasurya thriller starts well, then digs its own hole". The News Minute. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
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