Nirakkoottu

Nirakkoottu
Directed by	Joshy
Produced by	Joy Thomas
Written by	Dennis Joseph
Screenplay by	Dennis Joseph
Starring	Mammootty Sumalatha Urvashi Babu Nampoothiri Jose Prakash Azeez P. K. Abraham
Music by	Shyam
Cinematography	Jayanan Vincent Vipin Das
Edited by	K. Sankunni
Production company	Jubilee Productions
Distributed by	Jubilee Productions
Release date	12 September 1985 (1985-09-12)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Nirakkoottu (Malayalam: നിറക്കൂട്ട്‌) is a 1985 Malayalam film directed by Joshy, written by Dennis Joseph, and starring Mammootty. The music was by Shyam. It was remade in Tamil as Manithanin Marupakkam starting Sivakumar and in Kannada as Sathya Jyothi starring Vishnuvardhan and Sumalatha. The movie was commercially successful.

Sasikala Varghese (Urvashi) joins as a news reporter in a Malayalam daily named Keralarema, which is owned by M. K. Abraham(Jose Prakash). Sasikala stays with her friend, Dr. Suma (Lizy). Sasikala is assigned to interview Ravi Varma (Mammootty), who is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife Mercy (Sumalatha), who is also Sasikala's sister. Supreme court had sentenced Ravi to death and president also rejected Ravi's appeal. Sasikala covers and publishes the story of Ravi Varma and is well acclaimed and appreciated by Abraham, her boss, during the official meeting. They were also surprised on a feedback letter that had reached Keralarema office regarding the published article.

Ravi Varma is a wealthy man and the owner of an advertising agency. Mercy was employed as a clerk in a firm, and is a classical dancer too. Ravi had met Mercy during a dance program hosted at the club. He had then proposed with an offer for Mercy join his advertising agency as a model, which Mercy rejects instantly. However, on losing her job as a clerk and her family (consisting of an ill ridden father, a younger sister and brother) being dependent on her income, she is forced to join Ravi's advertising agency. The advertising agency flourishes well with the utilization of Mercy's modelling skills. A carrier oriented Ravi, in order to make Mercy stay with his firm always, proposes to Mercy and they get register married, as they belong to different religion. After a week long honeymoon, Ravi force his wife to pose for modelling with a half-dressed costume, which Mercy couldn't accept. This leads to indifference in their family life. Once Ravi comes to know that his wife is pregnant, argument begins again regarding the fatherhood of the conceived child, and Ravi asks his wife to move out of his house. Mercy then takes shelter in her friend, Dr Suma's house. Divorce was filed by Ravi, and it was granted with the verdict that Ravi needs to compensate his wife and child on a monthly basis until the child becomes youth. A frustrated Ravi visits Mercy and tells her that he will pay all the compensation for a single time and brutally murders her with the knife he brought with him.