Gumasthan 2024

Cunning clerk exploits legal loopholes to murder wife, evading suspicion. As public and police close in, they race to outwit his intellect and unravel the mysteries shrouding his crime and home.

Review

Gumasthan, the latest Malayalam thriller that has Jaise Jose in the title role, is an exaggerated thriller that tries to amplify the usual beats. The script written by Riyaz Ismat has plans to surprise the viewer by planting a lot of decoys in the story. But because of the bloated heroism from the beginning, at no point we feel that urge to know what exactly is happening in the movie.

Pallipadan, a Clerk (Gumasthan) of a prominent advocate, is the central character of our movie. He has a lot of experience in this field as he started the job at the age of 16 and has been with this advocate and his father. At one point, the servant at Pallipadan’s house happens to see him beat his wife. The next day, when she came there, the wife was missing, and the premise made her sense some foul play. The events that happened in that house after the police came for an investigation are what we see in the movie Gumasthan.