The Great Father

Malayalam ദി ഗ്രേറ്റ്‌ ഫാദര്‍
Directed by Haneef Adeni
Produced by Prithviraj Sukumaran
Santosh Sivan
Arya
Shaji Nadesan
Written by Haneef Adeni
Screenplay by Haneef Adeni
Starring Mammootty
Arya
Sneha
Baby Anikha
Shaam
Music by Songs:
Gopi Sunder
Background Score:
Sushin Shyam
Production
company
Distributed by August Cinema
Release date
  • 30 March 2017 (2017-03-30)
Country India
Language Malayalam
Budget ₹6 crore (US$940,000)[1]
Box office ₹61.3 crore (US$9.6 million)[2]

The Great Father is an Indian Malayalam mystery thriller film directed by Haneef Adeni and produced by Prithviraj Sukumaran, Arya, Santhosh Sivan, and Shaji Nadesan under the banner of August Cinema. Starring Mammootty in the lead role as The Great Father and Arya, Sneha and Shaam in supporting roles. The film was planned to release on 25 December 2016 on Christmas, but was postponed to 30 March 2017.[3]

The movie collected Rs: 4.31 crore on the opening day breaking the record initially held by Pulimurugan.[4]

Plot

Samuel (Sam) is a police officer investigating serial child abuse and murder crimes. Samuel receives a phone call from the child abuser who calls himself 'Joker'. Samuel tracks his location, goes to his place and gets killed by the Joker.

The cases are picked up by Officer Andrews Eappan (Arya), from CBCID. The story then shifts to Sarah David Anikha, a 10 year old girl whose superhero is her father David Nainan (Mammootty)- a well known builder. Both share a strong bond between each other. David does anything to make his daughter happy.

One day when he returns to his flat from office he finds Sarah lying unconscious in the lift, finding out she was raped brutally. He gets shattered and takes her to the hospital where his wife, Dr. Michelle (Sneha), is working.

After a few days Sarah recovers and gradually she comes to the normal state and reveals that it was a joker who raped her. David and Michelle, who are on extreme rage on the Joker, decide to find him and kill him as he is doing the same thing to all girls of their daughter's age.

He starts an investigation parallel to the police which makes Andrews suspicious about him. Andrews later finds that David's daughter was also abused. He enquires Sarah at their flat when David was not there. David warns Andrews for doing that as it mentally hurts her. David and Andrew starts receiving calls from the Joker. Both of them who are parallel but reaches the Joker's place. But Andrews was beaten up by him. David was also beaten up by the Joker but he manages to defeat him and kill him at a hill top.

After that, when Andrews asks David who the Joker was, David answers him that it was James who was working in his office. Andrews admits that David has done the same thing which Andrews wanted to do.

Cast

Production

On 19 August 2016, actor Mammootty shared the first look poster of the film through his Facebook profile. It is produced by Prithviraj Sukumaran, Arya, Santosh Sivan, and Shaji Nadesan under the banner of August Cinema. South Indian actress, Sneha, plays the female lead. Even though apprehensions were there that Sara Arjun was acting as the daughter of Mammootty Anikha was cast in the film to essay the role. On 4 September 2016, principal photography began in Wagamon, Kochi, with other shooting locations including Thrissur.[5][6] Producer-actor Arya also portrays a role, that of a leading police role in the film.[7][8] The actor himself released the teaser on 10 February. The film tries to bring back onto the screen the macho, protecting, style guru Mammootty whom the fans have been missing for long.[9] The songs are composed by Gopi Sunder and the background score is composed by Sushin Shyam.

Release

The film was released in 202 screens in Kerala.[10]

References


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