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Pradhama Drishtiya Kuttakkar
Pradhama Drishtiya Kuttakkar (Meaning: Prima Facie Guilty;) is an Indian Malayalam-language crime drama film directed by Shahad Nilambur and produced by Arjun Selva under the banner of 11 Icons Film Productions. In addition to Parvathy Thiruvothu, Mathew Thomas, Unnimaya Prasad, and Sidharth Bharathan in the lead roles, Vijayaraghavan, Vinay Forrt, and Tamil actor R round out the ensemble supporting cast. Parthiban. The film received mixed to positive reviews from the critics.
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PLOT:
The film starts with Aleena Abraham (Parvathy Thiruvoth) deciding to join the police force when the DIG offers her a government job for the loss she suffered when her husband was martyred in a police sting operation. Her only family is her in-laws, so she enrolls in the police academy, which is clearly dominated by men. She leaves her toddler with them. She completes her education and joins the police force, where she gets to know her fellow officers and becomes close to CPO Sreenath (portrayed by Matthew Thomas), ASI Dasan (portrayed by Sidharth Bharathan), and CPO Divya (portrayed by Unnimaya Prasad). Each struggles with their own problems; Sreenath has a girlfriend whose family is against their relationship due to caste and status differences, Dasan has a crush on a teacher he met during duty and wants to get married as he is already past his 30s, and Divya is struggling to conceive. Another officer, SI Xavier (Azeez Nedumangad), a womaniser, has a tiff with Dasan and is rude to the other officers, while the station is led by the well-meaning but bumbling Inspector Prathap Mohan (Vinay Forrt).
A clothing store sales manager, Jayaprakash “JP”, is secretly involved in a series of robberies with his co-worker and partner in crime, Meera. Sreenath, Aleena, and Dasan are on night patrol one day when JP comes alone in a car and tries to evade them. After a short chase, he gets caught and taken to the police station. He says he slipped past to avoid getting caught for being drunk but acts very uneasy, making Aleena send Sreenath again to check the boot space. JP and the police get into a fight over the car keys, during which he gets hold of Divya's gun and is shot to death. They also realise that he has other wounds and open the boot space to find the dead body of Meera. They choose to conceal it. They dispose of the bodies behind the police station while Xavier comes back, and he is told that a cat was buried. The automobile is taken away by Sreenath. The death of JP also triggers painful flashbacks for Aleena. She was left alone, clinging to an angel, and crying when her parents died in the floods as a child. She still experiences the effects of the incident, which left her with a scar on her forehead. She fights valiantly to safeguard the family she has left because her greatest fear is that her daughter will one day experience the same loneliness. A few days after JP’s death, Divya discovers that she is pregnant.
R. is a decorated veteran of the war. Vasudevan (Parthiban) was brutally killed in his house during a robbery, and the case is handed over to Crime Branch led by Dy.SP Harris Meeran, someone admired by Aleena’s husband.
Harris quickly recognizes JP and Meera's methods of burglary and identities thanks to his extraordinary skills, experience, and observation. Vasudevan had realised that he was being robbed and trapped JP and Meera inside a room before confronting them. During the fight, JP used Meera as a shield, resulting in her death. Vasudevan continued to fight JP, but when JP got hold of the puppy he had bought as a gift for his daughter and threatened it, Vasudevan surrendered to save the puppy and was killed.
He also figures out that the voice note sent by Aleena to JP’s wife from his phone is fabricated as he increases the background sound and hears a specific Muslim prayer used only in the morning while the message was sent in the evening. Harris goes to the station to meet with Prathap Mohan to find out if their officers saw JP and Meera while they were patrolling. The officers try to deny it, but Harris is still able to get them to tell him. He concludes that they are indeed the culprits after his daughter helps him determine the final location of JP’s phone which turns out to be the station and they get caught in a lie and has to gather the proof — body, weapon and manner — in order for the case to stand in court. CCTV is checked, but Prathap makes a mistake that makes it hard to retrieve what they missed that day. After Xavier informs Harris that he observed something being buried that day after spotting the cat that appeared to be dead behind the police station, he returns with K9 cadaver dogs. In the end, Harris realizes that the bodies were buried on top of a towed vehicle. When the officers attempt to retrieve and move the bodies, they are surrounded by Harris and his officers. Aleena had buried an elephant tusk, evidence from a different case, along with the bodies in a clever way so that they could use it as a legal loophole. JP's body is sent in for postmortem, and there is no bullet there. Aleena turns out to be the only one who knows where the bullet is, so Harris starts torturing and extorting the group to find it. He puts her under narcotics analysis illegally and gets the answer and raids her home to find the bullet hammered into the back of a book authored by Harris.
Aleena anticipates the investigation and creates loopholes by repeatedly referring to Harris's book throughout the film. When she escapes Harris's traps, the relevant book passages are also read aloud as part of the narration. The officers are detained and brought before the judge. The last thing that needs to be proven is whether or not the retrieved bullet came from Divya's service gun. They do a rifling marks test and shoot all the bullet rounds and compare the rifling marks with the crime bullet. The fact that none of the fired bullets matches the one that was recovered shocks Harris, and the group is granted bail. Divya gives birth, Dasan gets ready for marriage, Sreenath takes his girlfriend home and Aleena shifts to a better home.
Aleena reveals in a shocking twist during a final confrontation outside of court between Harris and her that she took MDMA to counteract the effects of sodium pentathol, which is used in narcoanalysis, and that she purposely forced Harris to retrieve the bullet she got from the training camp with the help of her husband's friend. The actual crime bullet is turned into a replica of her wedding ring as she melts it.
