I knew Srinath well since the days he made Second Show with Dulquer Salmaan as hero. I met many people involved with the incident and was about to get into the stage of writing when I learnt that Srinath Rajendran had already been planning a movie on the same subject. Not only can I write a book but it can perhaps also be made into a movie.
It was a friend C V Sarathi, a producer, who suggested that if I do a detailed study of this subject. I started studying about the incident, the various people involved and the minute details with the intention of writing a book. Real life incidents also interest me a lot.Īfter becoming a journalist and doing crime reporting, this subject too came into my radar. By nature, I am curious to read profiles of people such as politicians, film-makers and other celebrities.Įven before reading a book, I read the author's profile first with interest.
Like most others, I also had basic knowledge about this case. How did you come into this project and what is the kind of research that has gone into it? IMAGE: Sobhita Dhulipala with Dulquer Salmaan in Kurup. He is believed to have been apprehended at least once, but managed to give the slip either because of colluding policemen or his extreme shrewdness. Later, investigations proved that the body was that of another man called Chacko and the police were able to establish that a murder was committed at the behest of Kurup, who wanted to fake his death to corner insurance money to the tune of Rs 8 lakh.Ī sensational case then, and even now, what made Kurup an enigmatic figure was that he has remained elusive to date. Initially, it was thought to be the body of Kurup, a wealthy non resident Keralite, since the car and the clothes on the body belonged to him. In 1984, an Ambassador car caught fire at Kunnam in Alappuzha and a charred body was found in the driver's seat.
Secondly, Dulquer Salmaan, a movie star with a pan-Indian aura, was playing the central character.īut the most important aspect, at least for Malayalis, was that the film revolves around the most notorious pidikittapulli (fugitive from law) Kerala has known, Sukumara Kurup. When the Malayalam movie Kurup released in hundreds of theatres in Kerala and outside on November 12, there were at least three factors that made it a big draw.įirst, theatres in Kerala were being thrown open for the public after a long hiatus.
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