With months of anticipation and the Covid ban imposed later, cinema halls in Kerala came back to life with a roaring reception for the big budget Malayalam film ‘Kurup’, which was titled by actor Dulquer Salmaan. He plays the lead role as Sukumara Kurup, a long-running thief from Kerala. The film has lived up to the expectations ever since the pre-bookings started before release. The audience response to Kurup is considered overwhelming, when the government has allowed only 50 per cent seating capacity for cinema halls to operate.
The film released simultaneously in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu languages. Kurup has a unique big screen performance in the post Covid 19 scene in Malayalam. Kurup was opened to 1500 screens across the world, while Kerala alone has over 450 theatres. A classic crime thriller, Kurup is asked to revive the ailing theater sector in the state.
However, the film hit the marquee despite signing a meaty deal worth Rs 40 crore with the leading OTT player, Netflix India.
Sukumar Kurup is behind the infamous Chacko murder case in 1984, where the former conspired to kill a stranger named NJ Chacko along with his two accomplices, and disguised the corpse as himself to extort insurance money. hatched.
Chacko, a film representative from Karuvatta in Kerala’s Alappuzha district, was on his way home from work with his pregnant wife on their first wedding anniversary. But he never reached home. Later a burnt body was found inside an abandoned car along the then National Highway 47. However, the evidence collected from and near the initially unidentified corpse put Kurup in the dock. Even after solving the mysterious murder case, Kurup is still absconding in the police records.
Incidentally, Kurup’s director Srinath Rajendran was born in the same hospital and Chacko’s wife gave birth to their son at the time. Srinath had long dreamed of telling the screen story of the infamous criminal, and he followed the project for nine long years.
“The mystery about Kurup was around me since I was born. My mother was in the same hospital taking me inside while Mr. Chacko’s wife was carrying her son. As soon as the first film was over, the thought of making ugly came to my mind. My mind was set on making this film, and it took me another nine years of my life to finish it and bring it to you,” Srinath wrote on his Facebook page.
Kurup, operated by Dulquer Salmaan’s Wayfarer Films and M Star Entertainments, is made on a budget of Rs 35 crore. It was shot over 105 days at locations in Kerala, Mumbai, Dubai, Mangaluru, Mysore, Gujarat and Ahmedabad. Indrajit Sukumaran, Sobhita Dhulipala, Sunny Wayne, Bharata Srinivasan, Shine Tom Chacko, Surbhi Lakshmi and Vijayaraghavan play other prominent roles in the film.
DQ Outing is the first Malayalam film to play its trailer in Burj Khalifa in the presence of the actor and his family.
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