Summary
A string of mysterious murders happen in an aristocratic mansion. The owners of the mansion seek CBI officer Sethurama Iyer's help to find the person responsible for the deaths.
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- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 61GoodWatch 59
IMDb6.1
Running time
2 h 27 min
Longer than 9 in 10 mysteries, +45 min on the typical 102
typical 102147Half of all mysteries run 93–115 min.
Reach
Streams in 4 countries
Released
2005
September 9, 2005
21 years ago
Genres
MysteryThrillerCrimeLanguage
Malayalam
Original language
Made in
- India
Rated
No age rating yet.
Yes: its content advisories are violence, and the viewing guide lists it for family nights.
What's in it
- ViolenceMild
- Gore, disturbing imagesLittle or none
- Frightening scenesLittle or none
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesMild
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
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and 28 more32 people
- MammoottySethurama Iyer
- Jagathy SreekumarVikram
- MukeshChacko
- Bindu RamakrishnanLakshmiyamma
- GopikaAnitha
- Samvrutha SunilMythili
- Jishnu RaghavanSai
- Suja KarthikaLakshmi
Suvarna MathewMaya
ThilakanKapra
RizabawaDr. Babu
IndransDevaswam
Madhu WarrierPradeep
Mohan JoseVelu
V K SreeramanSankaran
Cochin HaneefaGeorge C Nair- AAugustineDYSP Dhanapalan
P SreekumarDr. Krishnan Nair
M R GopakumarHariharan
Bindu PanickerElizabeth C Nair
Balachandran ChullikkaduThirumeni
BaburajPoopparathy Vasu
MeghanathanPadmanabhan Achari
Ravi MenonKrishnan
Directing · 1
- K. Madhu Director, Producer
Writing · 1
- S. N. Swamy Writer
Camera · 1
- Saloo George Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- P.C. Mohanan Editor
Sound · 1
- Shyam Sunder Music
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