The Proposal

Davis arrives in Canberra, Australia as a student visa holder, one year after his friend Archith Kumar. During the course of his student visa, he intentionally falls in love with Anjana to get a permanent resident visa in Australia. In early 2020, Anjana goes to her home in Kerala and gets stuck there due to pandemic. Knowing that she is not coming back to Australia, Davis, along with Archith attempts for an unusual smuggling in hopes to attain a lump sum amount of money before they leave Australia. When that plan hilariously fails, Mathews and Reena who see Davis and Archith as their own younger brothers, advice Davis to lead a happy and normal life by getting married. Davis ventures to matrimonial website with a demand – “no dowry asked but sponsor me with a permanent visa in Australia”. When Davis meets Sandra, who is a very free-spirit independent woman with a dreadful-turned-strong background, his life takes a turn. Silver Cloud Pictures had scheduled to start of the film in from early 2020 but the project got abandoned due to the . Joe Joseph, who was originally assigned to write the and play the character of Archith Kumar Chandran Cherupalassery suggested a revised modern production strategy to shoot the film in Australia with an extremely . However, the who was supposed to direct the film expressed an inconvenience to travel to Australia and left the project. Joe Joseph stepped up to a director and lead actor role in order to complete the film and a new casting call was conducted to cast new comers to all the roles in the film. The Proposal released as an OTT film on 27 May 2022 on OTT. The proposal received generally positive response. reviewed the film as a “colourful entertainer”… An online critic channel SAP Media Channel criticised the movie’s length and semi making of some scenes due to the low budget while keeping the overall review as a “decent entertainer”. In 1992, the filming of a titled “Australia” was commenced in Australia. was the lead actor and Shankar, and Jagadish were in other main roles. The film was proposed to be directed by . Due to some unknown reasons, the project was abandoned without completing the filming. The shots that they took during this project was used in the Malayalam film . After this, Malayalam film industry had never shot a film in Australia. The Proposal is the first Malayalam feature film from to complete filming in Australia. The proposal received “Cinematic Excellence” award in Malayalam language films category at the 2023 IIFTC Tourism Impact Award held in Mumbai on 12 October 2023.