Professor Kurian Fernandez escapes from jail with his cellmate Raghu. Inspectors, Unnikrishnan and K.Purushothaman Nair are sent to track him down. They follow Kurian Fernadez's daughter to track him.
Acting
Mohanlal's physical comedy — the man commits to every single disguise
Direction
Priyadarshan juggling thriller tension with full-blown farce
Writing
The house-of-cards plotting where every lie demands three more
Director
Priyadarshan
Mohanlal
Unnikrishnan
Girija Shettar
Gaadha
Nedumudi Venu
Kurian Fernandez
Mukesh
Peter Kallikal
M G Soman
Police Commissioner of Bangalore
Jagadish
K. Purushothaman. Nair
Kaviyoor Ponnamma
Unnikrishnan's mother
Sukumari
Maggie Aunty
Maniyanpilla Raju
Harihar Iyer
Janardhanan
M.P.
K. B. Ganesh Kumar
Raghu
Cochin Haneefa
M.P.'s Lawyer
Sulakshana
Kurian Fernandez's Friend
Saleema
Mercy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Girija Shettar was a Telugu actress making her Malayalam debut; her Hindi was so good they wrote her character as half-Bengali to explain it.
This was Priyadarshan's follow-up to Chithram, and he essentially perfected the 'comedy-thriller' template that defined 80s Malayalam cinema.
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