Basheer (Jagathy) is rescued by a cargo ship while lost at sea. Basheer has had a partial memory loss and he struggles to find out what has happened to him. The captain of the ship (Lalu Alex) tries to get him back to land, but he runs into several legal troubles due to the lack of documents with Basheer to prove his identity. Bhaskara Pillai (Mamootty), a lawyer decides to help out Basheer seeing his plight. The plot thickens when there's an attempted murder on Basheer.
Acting
Jagathy's amnesiac fragility vs Mammootty's controlled fire
Direction
K. Madhu turns a cargo ship into claustrophobic tension machine
Writing
S.N. Swamy's legal procedural with genuine emotional stakes
Director
K. Madhu
Mammootty
Adv. Bhaskera Pillai
Jagathy Sreekumar
Basheer
Lalu Alex
Captain John Samuel
Urvashi
Adv. Geetha
Sreenath
SI Rajendran
Janardhanan
Williams
Sukumaran
Chief Minister
Vijayaraghavan
Mohammed Ali
Lissy
Bhaskara Pillai's Sister
Kollam Thulasi
Collector
Vijayan
Kesavan
Meena
Bhaskara Pillai's Mother
Jose Prakash
Menon
Prathapa Chandran
Venkataraman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the golden age of Malayalam commercial cinema, this represents the 'Mammootty lawyer' subgenre that dominated 1980s Kerala box offices.
The cargo ship sequences were filmed on an actual working vessel — the crew's authentic exhaustion wasn't acting. K. Madhu reportedly got seasick and directed from a tied-down chair.
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