When Venugopal, a medical representative gives a girl who runs into his cab a ride; he unknowingly gets involved in a murder.
Acting
Mohanlal's panicked everyman energy is criminally underrated here
Direction
Priyadarshan juggling romance and thriller before he got fancy
Editing
Those cross-cut telephone exchanges — pure 80s tension engineering
Director
Priyadarshan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Priyadarshan adapted this from a Malayalam radio play, keeping the claustrophobic single-location tension that made the original a cult classic.
This was Lissy's breakthrough role before she became Priyadarshan's wife — their on-screen chemistry here allegedly started the real-life romance that shocked Malayalam cinema.
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