The News (film)
The News | |
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Lizy Ranjini Jagadish Jagathi Sreekumar | |
Cinematography | Anandakuttan |
Edited by | K. Sankunny |
Music by | Rajamani |
Release date | 2 June 1989 |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
The News is a
Plot
After getting turned down in his application to become an
However, Viswanathan’s arch rival
In the morning shortly after they are back, the maid finds blood coming from their tap. On checking further in the terrace they find a corpse of a girl. Arun and his friends are arrested, where George Thomas and Freddy capitalize on the situation, alleging that Roy and his friends including Arun murdered the women and dumped her body in the tank, and Roy is in hiding. At this point, Vishanathan hands over the case to Rishi’s detective agency. Rishi finds out that the murdered girl Jolly and Roy were in a relationship. When he investigates further from her hostel, he finds out from her friends that Jolly had a troubled childhood since her father abandoned her mother when she was pregnant with her, resulting in both of them living a hard life.
Jolly starts hating men and to take out her frustration starts pretending to be in love with men only to ditch them afterwards. Roy was her latest victim as per her friends, but Rishi also finds out that eventually she falls for a sportsman named Victor George. Based on Jolly’s phone conversion log from the hostel, he traces Victors residence to a lodge in the city. Once he confronts Victor, he tries to escape, only to be overpowered by Rishi. Rishi also finds out Roy to be hidden in a house in the city itself, based on the call details when Roy had once tried to phone his friends while in captivity.
In his final meeting with Viswanathan, Rishi reveals that the actual killer is Viswanathan's
In the scuffle, Jeevan accidentally stabs and kills Jolly. It was on hearing this scuffle that Albert alerted his friends and Roy went up to check. Roy witnesses the murder of Jolly at the neighboring terrace. When he tries to escape, Victor sees him and Roy is taken captive and they dump the body in the tank so that the case gets deviated. Jeevan and gang gets arrested and Rishi solves his first successful case as a private detective.
Cast
- Suresh Gopi as Rishi Menon
- Baiju as Arun
- Mahesh as Roy Jacob
- Idavela Babuas Albert
- Jagathi Sreekumaras Karim
- Jagadish as Chandu
- Prathapachandran as Viswanathan
- Babu Antony as Victor George
- Lizyas Jolly
- Ranjini as Megha
- Janardhananas Radhakrishnan
- Vijayaraghavanas C.I Freddy Issac
- Sreenath as Jeevan
- Madhu as Surendran Menon
- Innocent as Bhargavan Pillai
- Sukumari as Sulochana
- Mammukoyaas Paramasivam
- K.P.A.C. Sunnyas George Thomas
- Kollam Thulasi as Doctor Rajendran
- Appa Haja as Venu
Box office
The News was a landmark in Suresh Gopi's career and was one of his first commercially successful films which established him as the lead actor.[2]
References
- ^ "The News". Malayalachalachithram.com. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
- ^ "Rajamani the Backbone of Catchy BGM". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
External links
- News at IMDb