Chaappa Kurishu (2011)

Original title

ചാപ്പാ കുരിശ്

Directed by

Sameer Thahir

Genre

romance film, crime thriller film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

UA

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two strangers get locked in a high-stakes conflict after a phone lost by one man ends up in the wrong hands. A gambling attorney and a struggling filmmaker each try to outmaneuver the other while protecting their own secrets.

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What happens

Chaappa Kurishu (transl. Heads or Tails (slang)) is a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language thriller film co-written and directed by Sameer Thahir and starring Vineeth Sreenivasan in the main protagonist and Fahadh Faasil in a antagonist with Roma Asrani, Remya Nambeesan, and Nivetha Thomas in the lead roles. The production started in April 2011 at Kochi and the film was released on 14 July. It is the directorial debut of Sameer Thahir. The entire movie was shot on a Canon 7D Still Camera. The film was remade in Tamil as Pulivaal with Vimal and Prasanna. The film is an unauthorized remake of the 2009 South Korean film Handphone, along with its reported structural similarity to the 2002 American film Changing Lanes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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