Abraham Ozler

Abraham Ozler

Past: ACP Abraham Ozler is on holiday with his wife Anisha and daughter Jenny when he receives a call about a double murder and leaves immediately. Halfway there, he realises the call was faked and rushes back home, only to find Anisha and Jenny missing. Vineeth, a drug addict, later confesses that he kidnapped them, killed them and buried their remains in a forest, as revenge for Ozler arresting him in a narcotics case. However, he says he was heavily drugged that night and cannot remember where the bodies were buried. Present: Three years later, Ozler is a chronically depressed insomniac who suffers hallucinations from lack of sleep. He has never found closure and remains devastated, visiting Vineeth in prison and questioning him regularly in the hope of recovering his wife's and daughter's remains. Meanwhile, he is investigating a series of murders with his subordinates SI Divya Sreedharan and Sijo T Venu. At each scene, the killer leaves birthday cards containing fragments of the Latin quote, "Let conversation cease. Let laughter flee. This is where death rejoices to help the living". The media dubs the culprit "The Birthday Killer". The investigation leads the team to Krishnadas, a man who uses an artificial larynx and was once a gifted singer before losing his voice in a surgical mishap. As Ozler digs into the past, he uncovers a link between the victims’ parents: Shivakumar and Selvaraj, who were postgraduate medical students at Kozhikode Medical College in 1989.

Director

Midhun Manuel Thomas

Release

11 Jan 2024

Run time

144 min

Language

Malayalam