The Great Father

<p>David Nainan is a busy businessman, who returns home from his office to find his 10-year-old daughter Sarah lying unconscious after being brutally abused. David gets distraught and takes her to the hospital where his wife Dr. Michelle David works. Sarah recovers and reveals that she was attacked by none other than Joker, a notorious serial killer known for killing teenagers and police officers. An enraged David and Michelle decide to find and kill him to protect other girls. David begins his own investigation, which causes Andrews Eapen to become suspicious of him, who was in a hurry to catch Joker. Eapen’s senior officer Samuel was killed by Joker when he try to catch him. Eapen discovers that Sarah was one of the Joker’s victims and aggressively questions her at home, where David warns Eapan for distraughting his daughter. David and Eapan starts receiving calls from the Joker, who is rumoured to be hiding in his safehouse at . They both heads to Gavi for killing Joker. After getting into Joker’s safehouse in Gavi, Joker attacks Eapan and David, where Eapen is badly thrashed and falls unconscious. However, David brutally kills Joker by stabbing his eyes using a and pushes him into a cliff. In the aftermath, Eapan asks David about Joker’s identity, where David reveals that Joker was actually his office worker James. Eapan also admits to having wanted to kill Joker. David returns to his home after being satisfied in killing the person who had abused Sarah. On 19 August 2016, actor Mammootty shared the first-look poster of the film on his Facebook profile. The film was produced by Prithviraj Sukumaran, Arya, , and Shaji Nadesan under the banner of August Cinema. South Indian actress Sneha plays the female lead. Although it was originally thought would be acting as Sara, the daughter, Anikha was eventually cast in that role. was originally thought to do the role of a police officer but was later replaced by due to physique issues. Later replaced for the role of woman inspector. Eventually opted to play the antagonist, the Joker. On 4 September 2016, principal photography began in , , with other shooting locations including . Producer-actor Arya also plays a leading police role in the film. The actor himself released a teaser on 10 February. The songs were composed by . The original soundtrack of the movie was composed, programmed, and by . Deepa Soman of gave 3 out of stars and wrote, ” is worth your money for its daddy-daughter moments and a timely plot. The film is quite predictable and one can see parallels in the factors that unveil the antagonist even in a few other Malayalam films.” gave 2.75 out of 5 stars and wrote, “Haneef Adeni has selected the perfect combination of emotion, mass and social relevance for his debut venture. The strong plot makes watchable, but screenplay could have been dealt better.” gave 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote, ” is a one-time watch and a tailor-made movie to boost Mammootty’s heroism, where the real social issue gets lost in the antics at times.” The film was a commercial success. The film grossed $960,748 from UAE box office in two weeks. The Film collected ₹4.31crore on the first day of its release and ₹20.54 crore within 4 days which was an all-time record. It is the First 50 Movie by .The Final gross collection of the movie is about ₹59 crore and had a 125 days run at the theatre. The film was released in 202 screens in . The film was released on on 7 July 2017.</p>