Latha (Rekha) who is running her father's business empire after he suffered a debilitating stroke, receives a call from a mysterious stranger Raji, threatening to reveal embarrassing details about her father unless she pays up Rs. 500,000. Since she has no idea how to deal with the blackmailer, she turns to Capt. Hariharan who runs a detective agency for help. Things take a grim turn when Raji, and then Latha's cousin Suresh, both turn up murdered one after the other. The evidence unearthed by Hariharan seems to implicate either Latha or her sister Malini - but are the girls up to murder to protect their dad's good name?
Acting
Mammootty's quietly commanding detective energy
Direction
K. Madhu's elegant escalation of domestic dread
Writing
Tight plotting that actually respects your intelligence
Director
K. Madhu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rekha and Shobana were rarely paired as sisters; their contrasting energies—Rekha's brittle control against Shobana's liquid warmth—were deliberately cast to muddy audience loyalties.
The film captures early-'90s Kerala's anxiety about women inheriting family businesses, using the thriller framework to punish and ultimately contain female ambition.
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