Dominic and the Ladies' Purse

Name: Dominic and the Ladies' Purse
Director: Gautham Menon
Genre: Mystery
Released: 2025-01-23
Rating: 1.5
Cast: Mammootty, Gokul Suresh

Directed by Gautham Menon

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152 min 23 Jan 2025

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Synopsis

Dominic and the Ladies' Purse

Dominic is a former police officer now working as a private detective in Kochi with his assistant, Vignesh. Once respected for his investigative skill, Dominic now handles minor cases and struggles to stay afloat. One day, the building owner finds a woman's purse abandoned at the hospital. She offers to waive Dominic's overdue rent and other expenses if he can return the purse to its owner. Motivated purely by money, Dominic agrees. While examining the contents to identify the owner, he discovers the purse belongs to Pooja Raveendran, a young woman officially reported missing. Dominic begins retracing Pooja's recent movements to locate her. Phone records, CCTV footage, travel slips and witness statements reveal signs that Pooja may have been under surveillance. Her family mentions a suspected stalker and asks Dominic to identify who was following her. During this process, Dominic learns about Pooja's ex-boyfriend, Karthik. Further inquiry reveals that Karthik himself has been missing for two years, a fact that was quietly ignored after his motorcycle was found near a lake with no body recovered. To better understand Karthik's past, Dominic travels to his hometown in Idukki where he meets Nanditha, Karthik's sister and a classical dancer. Dominic is intrigued by her calm demeanor. When a local gangster harasses Nanditha, Dominic intervenes and protects her, unaware that the man has deeper ties to her life.

Director: Gautham Menon
Release: 23 Jan 2025
Run time: 152 min
Language: Malayalam

Cast & crew

Mammootty Cast, Producer

Gokul Suresh Cast

Gautham Menon Director AN Anthony Editor DA Darbuka Siva Composer

Reviews

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The available source-linked Indian-media review for Dominic and the Ladies' Purse is unfavourable. The scored review is 30/100.

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The Indian Express Anandu Suresh

★★★★★ ★★★★★ 1.5/5 2025-01-23

From the very beginning, Dominic and the Ladies’ Purse consistently evokes a feeling in us; and that’s frustration. It’s not that the GVM film is outright terrible, but the sheer carelessness in its execution is so palpable that the movie ultimately feels like a series of wasted opportunities. Without any starry embellishments, Mammootty is interestingly introduced as a sketchy detective who repeatedly repurposes his living room to stage crime scenes for his true crime YouTube show. The space is perpetually chaotic — almost resembling a junkyard — yet Dominic’s first appearance in a bathrobe feels completely out of sync with his surroundings, raising intrigue.

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