Currency (film)

Currency
Currency
	Crime Never Pays
Directed by	Swathi Bhaskar
Written by	Swathi Bhaskar
Produced by	Brij Gill
Starring	Mukesh; Jayasurya ; Meera Nandan; Kalabhavan Mani
Cinematography	Azhakappan
Edited by	Manoj
Music by	Siddharth Vipin
Release date	30 April 2009;
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Currency is a 2009 Malayalam crime film by directed by Swathi Bhaskar starring Mukesh, Jayasurya, Kalabhavan Mani and Meera Nandan.

The film is inspired from the film The Man Who Copied.

Plot[]

Keshu (Jayasurya) is a school drop-out. An introvert, he is working in a Photocopy store, owned by Indrapalan (Suraj Venjaramood). Keshu is crazy about Rose (Meera Nandan), a sales girl in the nearby boutique.

Keshu often takes Photocopies of currency notes which looks like real, but he fears to spend them. One day he meets Daany D'souza (Mukesh), an Anglo Indian, who realizes the competence of Keshu in creating fake currencies. Danny forces him to continue with his act. Danny gets the information that a popular party in Kerala is bringing 10 crores of rupees to Kerala from Bangalore by road. Danny makes a scene with the help of some rowdies and cleverly replaces the 10 crore real notes with fake ones. They hides the real notes in a slum under the supervision of Iruttu (Kalabhavan Mani).

When the political party starts spending the money, police gets the information and an Intelligence Bureau officer played by Anoop Menon starts investigating. In the meantime, Keshu's mom gets admitted in the hospital and Keshu immediately wants 25,000 to pay in the hospital. They goes to Iruttu to take the money. There a fight erupts between Danny and Keshu. Iruttu, taking advantage of the situation, goes greedy and tries to take all the money by killing them. But Keshu hits Iruttu in the head and they escapes with the money.

Iruttu takes Rose as hostage and asks Keshu to return the money. Keshu pays the money and Iruttu escapes with it. But he was soon captured by the police and thus Danny and Keshu escapes the charges. They also get to know that they won the first prize of a lottery and they don't have to do any fraud activities to live from now.

Cast[]

Mukesh as Danny D'Souza Aka Sayippu
Jayasurya as Keshava Menon Aka Keshu
Kalabhavan Mani as Iruttu
Meera Nandan as Rose
Seetha as Subhadra, Keshu's Mother
Mamukoya as Koyakka
Suraj Venjaramood as Indrabalan
Anoop Menon Paneer Raghavan

Reception[]

Sify.com wrote "It's surprising that Malayalam filmmakers still haven't got over the fetish for voluptuous sirens in minimal clothing, gaudy colours and guns, while presenting the baddies. Well, the world has moved over but we are still comfortable with the kind of storytelling techniques that was prevalent ages back. Want some proof? Watch Currency then, of course, at your own risk!"^[1]Paresh C Palicha from Rediff.com wrote "Coming to the performances, Jayasurya does a competent job as Keshu. This may be the first time in his career that he has a role that is completely serious. Mukesh is a good foil for him. Meera is good too. Though this is Swathi Bhaskar's first feature film, he shows flair and competence. But for some unrealistic blemishes in the second half, he makes his Currency work "^[2]

References[]

^ "Review - Currency". sify.com. Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
^ "This is no fake Currency". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2009. Retrieved 31 January 2022.

External links[]

Currency at IMDb

[1] "Review - Currency". sify.com. Archived from the original on 9 May 2009. Retrieved 31 January 2022.

[2] "This is no fake Currency". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2009. Retrieved 31 January 2022.

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