The Great Father

The Great Father is a 2017 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film directed by Haneef Adeni and jointly produced by Prithviraj Sukumaran, Arya, Santhosh Sivan, and Shaji Nadesan under the banner of August Cinema. It stars Mammootty and Arya with Sneha, Anikha, Malavika Mohanan, Santhosh Keezhattoor, Balaji Sharma and Kalabhavan Shajon in the supporting roles. The original release date of 25 December 2016 was postponed to 30 March 2017. A dubbed version in Hindi, titled Dashing Jigarwala, was also released. Plot David Nainan is a well known businessman who returns home from his office to find his 10-year old daughter Sarah lying unconscious after being brutally assaulted. David gets distraught and takes her to the hospital where his wife Dr. Michelle David works. Sarah recovers and reveals that it was a serial killer named Joker who attacked her. An enraged David and Michelle decide to find and kill him to protect other girls. David starts his own investigation, causing CB-CID Andrews Eapen to become suspicious of him. Eapen discovers that Sarah was one of the Joker's victims and aggressively questions her at home, where David warns Eapan for upsetting his daughter. David and Eapan starts receiving calls from the Joker, who is rumoured to be hiding in his safehouse at Gavi. After getting into Joker's safehouse, Joker attacks Eapan and David, were Eapen is badly assaulted and fall unconscious. However, David finishes Joker by stabbing his eyes and pushes him into a cliff. In the aftermath, Eapan asks David about Joker's identity, where David reveals that Joker was actually his office worker James. Eapan also admits to having wanted to kill Joker. David returns back his home after getting satisfied in killing the person who had abused his daughter.