7th Day (film)

7th Day is a 2014 Malayalam crime thriller film written by Akhil Paul and directed by Syamdhar.^[2] It stars Prithviraj as 42-year old IPS officer David Abraham on the trail of an unnatural case.^[3] The film also stars Tovino Thomas, Anu Mohan, Vinay Forrt, Yog Jappe, Janani Iyer and Praveen Prem.^[4]

Plot

The story starts with a monologue by David Abraham, IPS (Prithviraj) during Christmas eve. When he leaves a party, he gets involved in an accident with Shan(Vinay Forrt) and Vinu(Anu Mohan). David takes them to hospital for treating Vinu's injury which he sustained while falling down from the bike. From the hospital Vinu escapes, to Shan's horror. David starts to suspect that there is something wrong. But Shan says there is no problem and David drops him at his place. Then he notices that Vinu has dropped his wallet in his jeep.

Shan recounts the story of his friends - Eby(Tovino Thomas), Jessica aka Jessy (Janani Iyer), Cycle(Praveen Prem) and Vinu. Vinu runs an internet cafe. Cycle is the son of a gulf-returnee with a lot of financial problems. Shan is a local correspondent for a newspaper. Eby and Jessica grew up together in an orphanage, and Vinu has a special interest for Jessica and Jessica to him. One day, Vinu's internet cafe is raided by the police looking for some stuff. Since they couldn't find anything, the police returns without saying anything to Vinu. That night, Vinu's house is raided by a goon named, Charlie(Yog Japee), who is commissioned by Christopher to locate a missing sum of Rs. 1.75 crores. They suspect that Vinu took the money from them and gives 36 hours to surrender the money to him.

Later David receives a call from a local travel agent that someone has given him a fake note of thousand rupees to book a bus ticket to Bangalore. David catches him from the bus and it turns out it is Cycle who was trying to get out of the town. Using Cycle, David locates his other friends - Vinu and Jessica. Eby is no where to be seen. David asks Vinu to recount the happening of the night of his suicide. He tells him that Eby had planned everything and stole the cash so he could kill Vinu because of his secret love for Jessica, but Jessica and Cycle where hearing all this. Jessica said she could not forgive him for trying to kill Vinu. With guilt Eby tells them that the money is in the vehicle and commits suicide by jumping of the waterfall. Coincidentally Eby's blood group was the same as Vinu's and they both had the same tattoo, so they decide to use Eby's suicide to fake Vinu's death. After their confession David reveals that Eby was a carrier for Christopher and the money in the bag was grade one counterfeit cash. David gave them the option of either leaving the money on the table so that he can report it as an abandoned bag of counterfeit money and that no one would ever disturb them about it or arrest them and take them to the court for planned murder. They chose the first option and handed the money over to David and left.

The movie ends with the 4 friends wondering who David Abraham really was. The last frame shows Charlie counting the money in the bag, confirming the amount and wishing David Abraham (aka Christopher) a Happy New Year.

Cast

• Prithviraj Sukumaran as Christopher/David Abraham IPS/
• Tovino Thomas as Eby Ebineser
• Vinay Forrt as Shan Shahar
• Janani Iyer as Jessica aka Jessy
• Anu Mohan as Vinu Ramachandran
• Praveen Prem as Cyril Samuel aka Cycle
• Joy Mathew as P.T.R. Bhattathiri
• Yog Japee as Charlie
• Lakshmipriya as Lab Technician
• Shobha Mohan as Vinu's mother
• Sreedevi Unni as Sr.Veronica
• Gayathri
• Sunil Sukhada as Security Simon

Release and reception

The film was released on 12 April 2014 as a Vishu release.^[1] The Times of India has given the film 3.5/5 praising Prithviraj's ability to maintain character and keep the suspense, as well as the camera work which is " an element that contributes to the riveting confusion between the real and the unreal.".^[5]

References

External links

• 7th Day at the Internet Movie Database