The film was produced by Vijay Babu under the banner of Friday Film House and was released on 20 December 2019. The movie generated mixed-to-negative reviews. [1]
Plot
Pullu Giri becomes a juvenile criminal at the age of 10 after he murders his mother's killer. His modus operandi is to stab with a rabies infected knife. After his mother's death, he is raised by Rajalakshmi alias Vakkeelamma, an esteemed criminal lawyer of Thrissur.
At present, Giri is a former gangster who lives peacefully by running his own bottled water company in Thrissur and is married to Veni and bears a daughter. He occasionally has brushes with the cops as the city police commissioner, Raman Moorthy, keeps an eye on him. Thrissur is currently donned by two gangster brothers, Shyam Rangan and Sudeep, who are gold smugglers and real estate mafias. Giri gets dragged back into crime when his friend, Balan, gets in trouble after renting a car to gold smugglers working for Sudeep.
Sudeep kills Balan who has gone to explain his innocence. Enraged, Giri plans and kills Sudeep by faking a road accident. Shyam vows revenge on Giri, who along with his friend Teja, orchestrates the kidnap of Veni and strips her naked in the busy market. He also burns down Giri's water-bottling plant. Veni requests Giri to avenge the humiliation. Giri gets hold of Teja and extracts information on the next gold consignment worth ₹100 crore. He captures the gold, smuggles it back to Kerala in a KSRTC bus, and stabs Teja with a rabies infected knife.
Giri surrenders the gold to Moorthy, and Shyam orders a hit on Giri, who is attacked by a large group of hitmen. Though Giri manages to defeat the attackers, he is betrayed by his trusted lieutenant who stabs and leaves him to die. His other lieutenants, Alli and Murugan, find and kill the betrayer while Shyam learns that Giri is alive. With his business empire crumbling due to the lost gold, Shyam seeks a compromise with Giri on his lawyer's advice. Shyam and his lawyer meet the limping Giri in a local tea stall. While they meet, the tea stall owner kills Shyam as he killed his son in a hit-and-run case. In the aftermath, Giri resumes his peaceful life.
Actor Jayasurya and producer Vijay Babu of Friday Film House were planning to associate together for a number of films after collaborating for Aadu and Aadu 2 and this was announced as a major project in their line up.
The film was touted as a mass entertainer and was announced that the story was narrated in several chapters, each named after the various stages of the pooram, such as Kodiyettam and Vedikettu. It was touted as an attempt to deliver a different kind of mass film and do justice to this genre. It was also announced to have all the ingredients necessary for an entertainer.[2] The film was shot in Thrissur, Hyderabad, and Coimbatore. Shoot officially commenced on 15 July 2019.[3]
