Adam Joan

Adam Joan

Year: 2017

Runtime: 155 mins

Language: Malayalam

Director: Jinu Abraham

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Adam Joan Pothan, a man from Mundakkayam, experiences a life-altering encounter when he meets a young woman named Emy. Their journey takes them to Scotland, where he meets new people and faces unexpected challenges. These experiences profoundly change his perspective and shape his future in unforeseen ways.

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Adam Joan Pothen is a wealthy Kerala businessman who channels his energy into farming and a deeply rooted, simple life. His path crosses with Amy, a Jewish singer in a choir, and what begins as curiosity grows into a profound love that leads to marriage. The couple’s happiness is tested as Adam’s brother, Unni, his wife, and their mother Nirmala settle in Scotland, creating a new orbit around a shared family dream. When Adam and Amy visit them, Amy conceives, but circumstances force her to stay in Scotland, far from their home. Adam returns to Kerala on plantation business, and tragically, Amy dies from childbirth complications, leaving behind a newborn daughter, Ila. Grief-stricken, Adam entrusts Ila to his brother and sister-in-law, who are childless, convinced that the pregnancy somehow caused Amy’s death, and he stops visiting Ila.

Seven years pass, and the quiet is shattered when Adam returns to Scotland after his mother’s death and Ila is suddenly kidnapped. He joins forces with his childhood friend, Cyriac, to piece together what happened. Their investigation leads them into the shadowy world of Satanic cults that operate across the Scottish mainland, with sacrifices carried out on days like Good Friday and Easter, when the powers they fear are believed to wane. The clues point to Ila’s half-Jewish heritage as a possible lure for these dark forces, intensifying the urgency of the search. They discover that Swetha’s friend Daisy, who hails from a Kerala family with a secret tradition of dark rites, was in contact with someone on the day Ila vanished and may hold a crucial link to the case.

The duo captures Daisy to learn more, and what she reveals is chilling: a widespread cult whose members have homes and churches scattered across the region. Daisy recounts a church visit where Swetha prayed for a child and was declared pregnant after five months, a detail that binds Ila to the cult’s schemes because Ila is the bigger prize—the true target. The high priest at the center of the plot, Edward Williams, is presented as a respected professor who wields influence over Swetha and Daisy. He demanded that Swetha either dedicate her unborn child to Satan or surrender Ila for a ritual, a choice Swetha refuses. Daisy’s information confirms that Ila’s identity was effectively sold, and the location would soon be revealed. Swetha had suspected danger but believed Ila would be returned after the ritual, a belief that she now deeply regrets.

Armed with new leads, Adam and Cyriac raid Edward’s house for clues and uncover a photograph of twelve Satanic priests. The tension explodes as Adam abducts and tortures Edward in a bid to extract information, killing him only after a brutal confrontation that ends with him throwing Edward down the stairs and erasing every trace of their crime. The chase resumes with new urgency as Adam tracks deeper into the shadows of this conspiracy.

Their search takes a grim turn at Edward’s graveside, where they glimpse a more extensive ritual circle among the priests. A Sri Lankan Tamil priest named Nathan emerges as a pivotal figure, one of the twelve who had once stood in that photograph with Ila but escaped capture. Adam tailing Nathan leads to a chilling revelation: Ila is slated to be sacrificed at a two-day ceremony attended by all the priests, including Nathan himself. In a bid to safeguard Ila, Adam had earlier arranged Cyriac to return Nathan’s daughter safely, while Nathan brings Adam to the ceremonial venue under the shadow of ritual and danger.

At the venue, Nathan introduces Steve, a ruthless and brilliant priest who has infiltrated the circle as the new high priest and is introduced to Adam as George Augustine, a priest of Indian origin. The plan to protect Ila hinges on timing and deception, but Steve detects the ruse, threatening to reveal Adam’s true mission unless Ila is kept safe. Cyriac, watching from afar, warns Steve by phone that any harm to Ila will invite a deadly response—he will kill Nathan’s daughter if necessary. The tension crescendos as the ceremony begins.

A struggle ensues when Nathan charges forward; Adam fights to the end to shield Ila, but not without cost. He defeats the priests and tries to safeguard the girl, yet Steve mortally wounds him with a fatal stab. In a final act of sacrifice, Adam overpowers and destroys Steve, but Nathan dies in the melee, and Ila is rescued. The toll is tragic: Adam dies from his injuries on the journey after saving Ila, and is laid to rest beside the graves of Amy and his mother. The truth about Adam’s life and his actions remains a profound, unsaid chapter for Ila. Cyriac gently explains to Ila that Adam was her father’s brother, a memory that hints at a future where the truth can be shared in time. In the aftermath, Unni and Swetha resolve to tell Ila the full story when she’s old enough, planning to bring her flowers—better, brighter reminders of a father who loved her enough to fight until the very end.

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