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Malayalam | ഊഴം |
Directed by | Jeethu Joseph |
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Written by | Jeethu Joseph |
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Music by | Anil Johnson |
Cinematography | Shamdat Sainudheen |
Edited by | Ayoob Khan |
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Fine Tune Pictures
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Distributed by | Central Pictures Release |
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139 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Box office | ₹15.25 crore (US$2.3 million) |
Oozham (English: Chance) is a 2016 Indian Malayalam-language revenge drama film written and directed by Jeethu Joseph. The film stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Divya Pillai and debutant Rasna Pavithran in the lead roles.Shamdat Sainudheen handled the cinematography. The film released on 8 September 2016.
This is the story of Surya (Prithviraj Sukumaran) and his revenge against his family's ill fate. Surya is the son of a health inspector Krishnamurthy (Balachandra Menon) and works in United States as a demolition expert. He returns to the homeland for his sister's engagement. After returning to the US, while video chatting with his sister, he sees his whole family being murdered. This devastating incident shakes him up. On the same day his fiancee, Gayathri's (Divya Pillai) brother a Superintendent of police is also killed. Surya along with his adopted brother Ajmal (Neeraj Madhav), an ex-software engineer, and Gayathri set out for vengeance against the CEO of a pharmaceutical company and their lackeys who caused them this pain with their particular skill sets.
After completing Life of Josutty (2015) director Jeethu Joseph announced his next film entitled Oozham which features Prithviraj Sukumaran in the lead. The film marks the second collaboration of Jeethu and Prithviraj who had worked earlier in the 2013 crime thriller film Memories. The director delineate the film is not a thriller like his previous films, it is a revenge drama with some action.
The film released on 8 September 2016 in 97 screens in Kerala.