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At last, director Joshy was able to finish the shooting of Nasrani, starring Mammootty in the lead. The movie, slated for Onam release, was reschdeuled to be released for Ramzan. The movie stars Mammootty as David John and Vimala as a college lecturer.
Nasrani, with a script by Ranjith, also casts Kalabhavan Mani, Biju Menon, Lalau Alex, Bharat Gopi, Mukta George, K.P.A.C. Lalitha and others. The movie hits theatres on October 12h. Will Nasrani repeat the Mayavi magic?Read the News in Tamil -->

Lal Jose, one of the well-known filmmaker of Malayalam film industry, is known for delivering films of different themes and genres with confidence. The director, who has already delivered various hits, has rendered another great movie that showcases the issues faced by the people of Kerala as they move out of the country for their living. It peeps into the lives of the innocent people moving out of the country, sacrificing their personal welfare, for the well-being of their families.
The movie introduces 'Cuba' Mukundan (Sreenivasan), a local man of the village Chemanoor in Kannur district. He and his father, 'Society' Raghavan run a tea shop. They are sincere members of the Communist party in Chemanoor, ready to sacrifice anything for the sake of the party. Mukundan is the local secretary of the Communist party; he strictly follows every principle and guideline of the party in the village. But as every place has some good as well as some bad people, the party too has some people who work in the party for their own selfish reasons rather than the well-being of the party and the community at large. One among them is Karnaran, who keeps planning to take over the power of Mukundan in the village. He supports a rich NRI, Kunjunni (Jagathy Sreekumar), who wants to set up a leather plant in the village. But fighting for the interests of the village, Mukundan and his pals, including Abbas (Inderjeeth) team up against Kunjunni's plan as the setting up of the plant can cause irrepairable pollution in the village.
Kunjunni and Karnaran devise a plan to put Mukundan into trouble; they trap 'Society' Raghavan in a cooperative bank scandal during a time when he is in hospital getting treated for a paralytic stroke. Mukundan believes that his father is the culprit for the scam relating to the society's finance fraud and expels him from the party. Soon, 'Society' Raghvan dies. Mukundan now decides to take a break from the party's activities and repay the amount that his father had actually not misappropriated.
He finally agrees to move to Dubai where he does a job with the help of Karnaran's nephew, Siddharthan (Jayasurya). Here, he needs to work hard and make a huge amount of Rs. 20 lakhs, an amount which had not even been misappropriated by his father. He is forced to work at an unskilled job which he does not like. He wishes he could have gone to China or Cuba for a better job. He soon realizes that he is working for none other than Kunjunni's company. During his stay, he becomes friendly with a Chinese lady, Shu Min, and gets closer to her as she is from a Communist country.
The movie has beautifully shown how the communist party cadres are no more working on its principles or for the welfare of the society but instead are being ruled by corrupt and self-centred people. The choice of subject by Lal Jose is commendable. The way he shows the real picture (of how the people of Kerala move to an unknown country just to perform unskilled jobs to earn a better wage and ensure a better standard of living for their family members), is laudable.
Sreenivasan's performance is awesome. He emotes his part with admirable precision. The way he breathes life in his role is the major highlight of the film. Zhang Shu Min has done full justice to her role. Jayasurya, Inderjeet, Samvrutha, Jagathy, Saleem Kumar, have done a splendid job. Manoj Pillai brings in some exotic locations of Kerala and Dubai. Music by Biji Bal is good.
Arabikatha is a well-made and realistic film.