Memories (2013 film)

Memories
Memories
Soundtrack album by Sejo John
Released	2013
Recorded	2013
Genre	Film soundtrack
Language	Malayalam
Producer	P K Muralidharan; Santha Murali
Sejo John chronology

Memories
Memories
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jeethu Joseph
Written by	Jeethu Joseph
Produced by	P K Muralidharan; Santha Murali
Starring	Prithviraj; S. P. Sreekumar; Miya; Vijayaraghavan; Meghana Raj
Cinematography	Sujith Vaassudev
Edited by	John Kutty
Music by	Songs:; Sejo John; Background score:; Anil Johnson
Production; company	Anantha Visions
Distributed by	Murali Films & Tricolor Entertainments
Release date	9 August 2013;
Running time	143 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	₹34 million
Box office	₹1.95 billion

Memories is a 2013 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film written and directed by Jeethu Joseph, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, S. P. Sreekumar, Miya, Vijayaraghavan, Suresh Krishna and Meghana Raj. The film is produced by P. K. Muralidharan and Santha Murali under the banner of Anantha Visions.^[1] The film follows Sam Alex (Prithviraj), a drunkard cop, who is forced to investigate a series of murders. The climax of the film drew inspiration from Kiss the Girls. The movie was remade in Tamil in 2016 as Aarathu Sinam.^[2]

Plot[]

Sam Alex is a police officer who is heavily dependent on alcoholism to ease the pain of his family loss. Sam was a romantic and peaceful family guy, leading a good life with his family. His loving wife Teena and beloved daughter were murdered by his enemy right in front of his eyes, and as a result, he turns into an alcoholic. Sam's supervisor Aravindhaksha Menon requests him to proceed with a parallel investigation in a case involving the disappearance and possible kidnapping of several young married men, since the present police team is not able to make any progress in the case. Sam refuses to this. Later, his mother Marykutty requests him to take up the investigation.

Sam soon gets into the case files and consults the postmortem documents and the doctors who conducted it. Soon, Sam is seen making a breakthrough in the case. Another two kidnappings happen in the series, and all this leads to Sam's rough conclusion of the killer. The killer is an eccentric person, has a limp in his feet, and either hates or loves women. The killer leaves certain clues inscribed by a sharp surgical knife on the chest of the victims. This serves Sam's thinking of what kind of person the killer is and who is his next target.

Upon careful examination of the words inscribed in the body of the victims, Sam uncovers that the words are actually Aramaic, the language Jesus used for communication. The words are later found to point to biblical proverbs, thus helping Sam lead to conclusions that the killer is insane and assumed the victims gave up their lives for the sins committed by their respective wives. He soon figures out that the wives of the kidnapped husbands have links, and they all had to do with a guy who studied with them certain years back. There was no evidence of such a person.

During all these scenes, Sam realizes that there is one last target and the killer will not miss this and he will disappear after that. He eventually finds out that the next target is his own brother Sanju, and his brother's wife is the last link in the connection. Sam finds out with the help of his colleague and other evidence that the killer has a property near Kottayam. He goes there for one last confrontation. After killing the murderer, he gives up drinking and adopts the daughter of the murderer's sister. He finally moves on.

Cast[]

Prithviraj as SP Sam Alex IPS
S. P. Sreekumar as Peter/Anand
Miya as Varsha Varghese
Meghana Raj as Teena Sam W/o Sam
Vanitha Krishnachandran as Marykutty Alex (M/o Sam Alex)
Rahul Madhav as Sanju Alex
Vijayaraghavan as IG Aravindhaksha Menon IPS
Suresh Krishna as SP Vinod Krishna IPS
Sreejith Ravi as CI Antony
Baiju V. K. as CI Suresh
Nedumudi Venu as Father John
Irshad as Issac
Praveena as Parvathi Issac
Kozhikode Narayanan Nair as Krishna Pilla
Deepika Mohan as Krishna Pilla's wife
Madhupal as Dr. Sukumaran Nair
Jijoy Rajagopal as Dr. Shami
Seema G. Nair as Valsamma
Disney James as Terrorist
Neeraj Madhav as Mechanic
Koottickal Jayachandran as Merchant
Balaji Sarma as Police officer
Vineeth Mohan as Ramesh
Mahalakshmi as Vimala Menon
Rishi Prakash as Photographer Sujith
Jeena Riju as Jancy
Deepa Jayan as Lakshmi
Aneesh G Menon as Vijay
Thankachan Vithura as mechanic Ratheesh
Jerin T. R. as Young Anand/Peter

Release[]

Memories was released on 9 August 2013.

The film had been remade into Tamil as Aarathu Sinam with Arulnithi in lead.

Reception[]

Sify.com rated the film as "Good", stating that "Memories is an engaging film that has been well made."^[3] Gayathry of Oneindia.in says that "Memories is undoubtedly an above average, entertaining movie."^[4] Aswin of The Times of India says that "Memories is an engaging watch, courtesy a decent plot and a cast that does justice to the plot."^[5] Indiaglitz.com says that "Memories is a thriller which may find space among the list of well crafted suspense thrillers in Mollywood.^[6] Nowrunning.com rated the film as "Above Average", stating that "Memories is a decent entertainer and stunning triller in which plot twists abound, and the ambiance is laced with intrigue."^[7]

Music[]

All music is composed by Sejo John.The song "Memories" has borrowed elements heavily from the English song "Summer Wine" by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood. Towards the very end of the movie, the background music consists of a piece borrowed from the "Schindler's List theme"..