Traffic (2010 film)

Traffic
Official poster
Directed by	Rajesh Pillai
Produced by	Listin Stephen
Written by	Bobby Sanjay
Starring	Sreenivasan Asif Ali Rahman Kunchako Boban Anoop Menon Vineeth Sreenivasan Sandhya Roma Remya Nambeesan Lena
Narrated by	Sreenivasan
Music by	Mejo Joseph Samson Kottoor
Cinematography	Shyju Khalid
Edited by	Mahesh Narayanan
Production company	Magic Frames
Distributed by	Magic Frames
Release date	7 January 2011 (2011-01-07)
Running time	122 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Box office	₹5.95 crore (US$930,000)

Traffic is a 2011 Malayalam language Indian road thriller film written by brothers Bobby and Sanjay and directed by Rajesh Pillai. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Sreenivasan, Rahman, Kunchako Boban, Anoop Menon, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Sandhya, Roma, Remya Nambeesan and Asif Ali. The film has its narrative in a hyperlink format. The film opened on 7 January 2011, to a positive reception. It is widely regarded as one of the defining movies of the Malayalam New Wave. A multi-narrative thriller that intertwines multiple stories around one particular incident, Traffic is inspired from an actual event that happened in Chennai. Owing to its critical and commercial success, Traffic was remade into Tamil as Chennaiyil Oru Naal, in Kannada as Crazy Star and is also remade in Hindi, with the same name. This was also the last film of the veteran actor Jose Prakash.

On 16 September, superstar Sidharth Shankar (Rahman) gets ready for the release of his new film. On the same day, Traffic Constable Sudevan (Sreenivasan) joins back on duty, after having been suspended from service for taking bribes. The day is special for Dr. Abel (Kunchako Boban) who is celebrating his first wedding anniversary. Raihan (Vineeth Sreenivasan), an aspiring television journalist, starts his first job with an interview with Sidharth Shankar the very same day.