Memories (2013 film)

Memories
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jeethu Joseph
Written by	Jeethu Joseph
Produced by	P K Muralidharan Santha Murali
Starring	Prithviraj Meghana Raj Miya George S. P. Sreekumar Vijayaraghavan Rahul Madhav
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 (2013-08-09)
Running time	143 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	₹3.4 crores
Box office	₹12 crore

Memories is a 2013 Indian Malayalam-language slasher crime thriller film written and directed by Jeethu Joseph, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, S. P. Sreekumar, Vijayaraghavan, Meghana Raj, Miya George, Suresh Krishna and Rahul Madhav. 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 film was released on 9th August 2013 and was critically acclaimed by the critics and was a commercial success at the box office.

The film received cult status and regarded as one of the best crime thrillers in Mollywood, where it was remade in Tamil in 2016 as Aarathu Sinam.

Plot

Sam Alex is a SP of Kerala Police, who is heavily dependent on alcoholism to ease the pain of his family loss. Sam was a 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. He kills him 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, who 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 with a guy named Anand (who now goes by the name Peter), who studied with them certain years back, but there was no evidence of such a person.

After this, Sam realizes that there is one last target and Peter will not miss and 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 Peter has a property near Kottayam. He goes there for one last confrontation. After killing Peter, Sam gives up drinking and adopts the daughter of Peter's sister and finally moves on.

Cast

• Prithviraj Sukumaran as SP Sam Alex IPS, former Kerala Thunderbolts-Commando Task Force Leader, who became an Alcoholic due to his wife Teena's and daughter's death
• S. P. Sreekumar as Peter/Anand
  • Jerin T. R. as Young Anand/Peter
• Meghana Raj as Teena Sam, Sam's wife
• Miya as Varsha Mathews
• Vanitha Krishnachandran as Marykutty Alex, Sam's mother
• Sreejith Ravi as CI Antony
• Vijayaraghavan as IG Aravindhaksha Menon IPS
• Rahul Madhav as Sanju Alex, Sam's brother
• V.K Baiju as SI Suresh
• Nedumudi Venu as Father John
• Suresh Krishna as SP Vinod Krishna IPS
• Irshad as Issac
• Praveena as Parvathi Issac
• Kozhikode Narayanan Nair as Krishna Pillai
• 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

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."

Music

Memories
Soundtrack album by Sejo John
Released	2013 (2013)
Recorded	2013
Genre	Film soundtrack
Language	Malayalam
Producer	P K Muralidharan Santha Murali
Sejo John chronology
Housefull (2013) Memories (2013) 6B Paradise (2013)

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".

No.	Title	Lyrics	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Thirayum Theeravum"	Sejo John	Vijay Yesudas
2.	"Memories"	Shelton Pinheiro	Shelton Pinheiro

Accolades

• Won the Kerala State Film Awards in 2014 for Best Cinematography. Memories - IMDb
• Won the Asianet Film Awards in 2014 for Most popular actor.

External links

• Memories at IMDb