The Truth (1998 film)
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| Directed by | Shaji Kailas |
| Produced by | Ashraf |
| Written by | S. N. Swamy |
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Mammootty Divya Unni Murali Vani Viswanath |
| Music by | Rajamani |
| Cinematography | Anandakuttan |
| Edited by | Bhoominathan |
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A. B. R. Productions
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
The Truth is a 1998 Malayalam investigative thriller film written by S. N. Swamy and directed by Shaji Kailas.Mammootty plays the lead role of an Indian Revenue Service officer investigating in the film. The film was dubbed in Tamil as Unmai and in Telugu as Delhi Simham.
The film begins with some insight into the Brahmin family of Patteri (Thilakan), a respected astrologer. He helps a police officer named Pothuval (Janardhanan) to crack an ill-famed temple robbery. The story then moves to a political arena, where the well-liked and righteous Chief Minister, Madhavan (Balachandra Menon) initiates a crackdown on corrupt Government servants, angering his party and Ministers alike. In the by-election soon to follow, where he has to win to retain his position as the Chief Minister (CM), the party conspires against him for that matter. During a chance encounter with the CM, Patteri senses a bad omen regarding Madhavan’s success and hopes maybe the by-elections won't happen. Meanwhile, an enigmatic and alluring woman is shown entering a flat where she meets an accomplice and they go through the details of an assassination which they plan to carry out soon. The plan is executed and the Chief Minister is killed along with a few other officers, by an explosion while on dais of a public election meeting.
The initial investigation is headed by the IPS officer Meena Nambiar (Vani Vishwanath). Aided by a misplaced camera from the debris, suspicion is laid on the photograph of a ‘killer woman’, who sneaked into the venue using a forged journalist pass. They trace the local temporary residence of hers and arrest the home owner (Babu Namboothiri) and his family on charges of sheltering the culprit, although he was tricked by the woman. The investigation advance no further and this provokes the Judge dealing the case; because for no solid reason, the home owner and his family are being punished, due to the inefficiency of the investigating officer. The sensational nature of the case, achieved partly because of Meena Nambiar’s media obsession, causes a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to take over.
The SIT arrives from Delhi and is headed by Bharath an IRS officer posted in Ministry of Home Affairs(Mammootty), who is Patteri's son. The initial friction between Bharath and Meena, dwindles to a friendship, once Bharath makes the first startling discovery. Bharath is targeted more than once by unknown assassinators, on one occasion even inside the police HQ. While this frightens most, he gets convinced that the enemy is “near” and influential. In spite of so many complicated deceptive leads, he grows suspicious of the credibility of the photograph of the killer woman. The fact that the residence of the killer yielded no female fingerprints and there is an unidentified male fingerprint in the same apartment reveals to him that the photograph was a decoy. The killer is a male and the police kept chasing someone who isn’t there. They learn the whereabouts of him, by strategic publicizing of a generated photograph of the man. They also apprehend the killer’s accomplice. But, close to capturing the killer, who goes by the name Bose, they find him killed by the enemy.
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