Memories (2013 film)
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. The film follows Sam Alex (Prithviraj), a drunkard cop, who is forced to investigate a series of murders. The movie was remade in Tamil in 2016 as "Aarathu Sinam".The film was critically acclaimed and become a superhit at box office. The film got cult status and regarded as one of  the best crime thrillers in Mollywood. 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. 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." Gayathry of Oneindia.in says that ""Memories" is undoubtedly an entertaining investigation movie." Aswin of The Times of India says that ""Memories" is an engaging watch, courtesy a good plot and a cast that  does justice to the plot." Indiaglitz.com says that ""Memories" is a thriller which may find space among the list of well crafted suspense thrillers in Mollywood. 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."