A half-built house, hardly 100 metres from the national highway at Vandanam in Alappuzha, remains as a grim reminder of a four-decadeold case that has attained a folklore status in the state. The dream house.
Kurup, then employed in the Gulf, allegedly murdered Chacko in Kerala with three accomplices on January 21, 1984, to secure a Rs 8-lakh life insurance payment, then a huge sum
Directed by Srinath Rajendran, Kurup is the story of Kerala s most wanted criminal Sukumara Kurup who is absconding after murdering a film representative Chacko to embezzle the insurance money by scripting his own death. It is the first major Malayalam movie to release in Kerala after theatres were