Over a month after its theatrical release, Mohanlal-starrer Thudarum will hit the OTT platforms for those who missed the big screen experience. On Tuesday, JioHotstar Malayalam’s social media accounts announced that the crime thriller would be streaming on their platform, urging fans to gear up for its release on Friday, May 30.
The film follows taxi driver Shanmugham, who cherishes one possession above all—his beloved Ambassador car—which he cares for like his child. When the vehicle lands in police custody, he attempts to retrieve it but gets embroiled in a larger plot. Directed by Tharun Moorthy, the film also features Shobana, Farhaan Faasil, Maniyanpilla Raju, and Thomas Mathew.
Thudarum received rave reviews, Sajin Shrijith of THE WEEK writing, “Even when the film's atmosphere gets thicker and heavier with menace, maybe enough to recall one of those intense Korean thrillers, Tharun doesn't forget to inject us with doses of catharsis when we most need it... He puts the characters of Mohanlal, Shobana, and a few others through some emotionally devastating circumstances. But he also incorporates enough meta moments and callbacks to earlier Mohanlal films—both the good and the bad ones—to make the overall experience more palatable.”
The film was bankrolled by M. Renjith under his Rejaputhra Visual Media production banner. Reportedly made on a budget of Rs 28 crores, the film managed to garner an impressive Rs 231 crore, claiming the third spot in the highest-grossing Malayalam films of all time, just behind L2: Empuraan and Manjummel Boys. It is also the fourth highest-grossing Indian film of the year.