Ira

Ira

Year: 2018

Runtime: 138 mins

Language: Malayalam

Director: Saiju S S

Thriller

Aryan discovers the world is brighter with the presence of a loved one, until his life is unexpectedly upended by a serious crime he didn't commit. Facing false accusations and a complex situation, Aryan finds an unlikely ally in Rajiv. Together, they navigate a web of political and bureaucratic conspiracy to uncover the truth and clear Aryan's name.

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Aryan Gokul Suresh is a doctor who is deeply in love with Jennifer Niranjana Anoop. When he is arrested for the murder of Jennifer’s grandfather, Minister Chandy Alencier Ley Lopez, he maintains his innocence and insists he has been wrongly accused. His life takes a dramatic turn when the determined police officer investigating the case, Rajeev Unni Mukundan, enters the picture and begins to peel back the layers of the mystery.

Rajeev conducts a meticulous inquiry to stitch together the events around Chandy’s death. He discovers that Aryan, a newcomer to the city, had been appointed to a leading hospital after a recommendation from a priest close to the hospital’s owner. Meanwhile, Jennifer’s parents—Jacob Shankar Ramakrishnan and Daisy Lenaa—have a fraught history, with Daisy excelling as a criminal lawyer even as her marriage fractures. As Rajeev traces the timeline of the fateful day, he finds evidence pointing to a deadly chemical found in Chandy’s body and begins to doubt Aryan’s guilt.

In jail, Rajeev visits Aryan and offers him a potential path to exoneration if he is truly innocent. Yet the narrative soon shifts as Rajeev recounts a second thread: a forest village case involving tribal families where he meets a young woman, Karthika Miya George. What starts as a chance encounter with humor and danger blossoms into a complex romance, only to reveal that Karthika is more than she seems—she is Vaigha Devi, a fearless journalist who investigates social crimes affecting tribal communities. The plot thickens as a factory producing illegal medicines is shown operating with the complicity of Bhadran, a notorious enforcer, and as Karthika pursues truth and justice, personal tragedy strikes. Karthika’s parents are murdered, and she herself is brutally assaulted—an act that leaves a lasting scar on Rajeev’s case and on the wider fight against corruption.

As Rajeev’s memory of the forest case unfolds, he shares with Jenny that her father may have targeted Aryan to create an emotionally compelling narrative around Chandy’s death. Back in court, Daisy leverages her legal acumen to defend Aryan, challenging the prosecution’s case and exposing Jacob’s manipulation and the influence of a corrupt Police Commissioner Satish. The courtroom moment shifts the balance, and Aryan’s fate seems momentarily in reach as Jacob’s car is mysteriously targeted, raising suspicions of a larger conspiracy at work.

The investigation takes a chilling turn when Rajeev is summoned to Jacob’s island guest house, where Jacob reveals he had kidnapped Aryan as part of a broader plot. The revelation jolts Aryan and tests Rajeev’s resolve, but Rajeev remains calm and relentless, ready to reveal the truth to the public.

In a shocking twist, it is unveiled that Chandy’s murder was carried out by Aryan with Rajeev’s covert involvement. Rajeev explains that on the day of the killing, he wore a disguise as a male nurse and swapped the injection meant for Chandy with a life-threatening agent, ensuring Chandy would be killed. This revelation also ties into Aryan’s motive: avenging the murder of Karthika, Aryan’s elder sister. Confronted with the truth, Jacob is killed, and Rajeev declares that Aryan must be saved from a frame-up while ensuring justice for Karthika’s loss.

With Jacob dead and the case reopened, Rajeev and Aryan emerge from the turbulence with a new, united purpose. Rajeev declares that the murder was not just a case of mistaken identity but a calculated act of vengeance that was meant to expose deeper corruption. Aryan, now freed and vindicated in the eyes of many, remains a close ally as the two men prepare to confront Bhadran—the brutal force at the heart of the illegal medicine trade.

In the final beat, the film closes on a tense note: Rajeev and Aryan stand on the precipice of another dangerous confrontation, fully committed to taking down Bhadran and ending the cycle of violence and deceit that has haunted so many lives. Their alliance suggests that justice, even when it comes at a high personal cost, remains the driving force behind their pursuit of truth.

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