John Luther (film)

John Luther
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Abhijith Joseph
Written by	Abhijith Joseph
Produced by	Thomas P Mathew Christeena Thomas (co-producer)
Starring	Jayasurya Elango Kumaravel
Cinematography	Roby Varghese Raj
Edited by	Praveen Prabhakar
Music by	Shaan Rahman
Production company	Alonsa Films
Distributed by	Century films
Release date	27 May 2022 (2022-05-27)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

John Luther is a 2022 Indian

John Luther was released on 27 May 2022 to positive reviews from critics.[2]

Plot

John Luther is an honest and efficient

When John comes back, another women named Geetha also goes missing. During that investigation, he finds a house where the pickup truck was spotted by the neighbors. Upon questioning the owner Joby, he finds the pick up truck and find who drives the truck usually. The driver is Venkit, a Tamil daily laborer who just started 4 months back with them. He is now in Chennai trying to sell the house owners truck because his business is doing bad. John questions who brought Venkit to them and it leads to Venkit's uncle Prasad who retired and went back home due to health reasons. John goes to Prasad's hometown in Kolukkumalai and interrogates Prasad.

Prasad says that he already knew that Venkit was a psycho. He was a bright medical student who passed MBBS with a rank, but was debarred for practicing medicine during his house surgency thereby accidentally killing a girl who was his patient. This made him practice surgery on dead bodies to satisfy the surgeon within. Prasad saw the all the murders. Prasad falls ill and he is admitted to a nearby hospital. John gets the body parts of the 3 victims.

John gets a list of medical students who were debarred and finds out that Venkit's name was not in the list. But he finds Prasad's name in that list and realises that Prasad is the real serial killer. He goes back to the hospital to capture him. By that time, Prasad manages to make John's colleague ASI Rajan unconscious and starts performing surgery on him. John and Prasad ends up in a fight in which Prasad severely injures John, but John manages to kill Prasad. John later recovers from his injuries completely at the hospital.

In the final scene of the movie, John submitting the closing report of the crimes while his superior officer tells the DGP on the phone that John is going to be assigned to another case.^[3][4]

Cast

• CI
  John Luther
• Elango Kumaravel as Dr. Prasad Kumar, a serial killer
• SI
  Felix, John's subordinate
• Siddique as Mathews, John's father
• Athmiya Rajan as Jessie John, John's wife
• Drishya Raghunath as Leena Mathews, John's sister
• Sreelakshmi as Molly Mathews, John's mother
• Sivadas Kannur as
  ASI
  Rajan, John's subordinate
• SP Krishnakumar IPS
  , John's superior officer
• Senthil Krishna as Venkit
• Benzi Mathews as Dr. Kiran
• Pramod Velliyanad as Varghese
• Bitto David as Joby
• Vinod as Libin
• Aanie Abraham as Geetha
• Neethu Chandran as Revathi
• Nimisha as Ancy

Production

Debutant director Abhijith Joseph^[5] approached actor Jayasurya with an investigation thriller and the project got green signal from the award-winning actor. The film was bankrolled by Thomas P Mathew for Alonsa Films with Christeena Thomas as co-producer. Actors Deepak Parambol^[6] and Siddique were the first to join the cast and the film completed its first schedule in Vagamon followed by the final schedule at Ernakulam. Director Abhijith Joseph said that the character ‘John Luther’ is not inspired from the iconic ‘DCI John Luther’ played by actor Idris Elba from the British television series Luther.^[7] Century Films has acquired the distribution rights of the film.^[8] While actor Deepak Parambol completed his dubbing on 30 December 2021,^[6] actor Jayasurya started his dubbing on 22 January 2022.^[7]

Reception

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