Turbo (2024)

Turbo (2024)



 Turbo is a 2024 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film directed by Vysakh, written by Midhun Manuel Thomas and produced by Mammootty under Mammootty Kampany.The film stars Mammootty in titular role, alongside Raj B. Shetty, Sunil, Kabir Duhan Singh, Anjana Jayaprakash, Niranjana Anoop, Bindu Panicker, Dileesh Pothan and Shabareesh Varma in supporting roles. The music was composed by Christo Xavier, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Vishnu Sarma and Shameer Muhammed respectively.

Turbo was theatrically released on 23 May 2024 to mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

Aruvipurathu Jose alias Turbo Jose, a jeep driver from Idukki with a habit of getting involved in fights, learns that his best friend Jerry, a bank manager in Chennai, was attacked by henchmen sent by the family of his girlfriend Indulekha, who is also a bank manager of a different bank. Jose arrives at Indulekha's house and stops her engagement, where he takes Indulekha to Jerry's house. However, Jerry refuses to accept Indulekha due to fear of his family and Indulekha goes to Chennai for her job.

Jose learns that Indulekha's family have filed a case against him, where he leaves for Chennai and persuades her to come back home. However, Jose decides to stay at Chennai after learning that he will be imprisoned. On Jose's request, Indulekha helps him find a job at her customer Andrew, a rich car dealer, and Jose works as a bodyguard for Andrew. Jose manages to reunite Indulekha with her family.

Meanwhile, Jerry gets informed by her colleague Sithara that an anonymous person from the bank had used Jerry’s passkey to transfer a huge amount of money to inactive accounts registered under other people's names. Jerry begins the investigation with Sithara, where he learns about the real mastermind behind the scam: Vetrivel Shanmugam Sundaram, a ruthless and charismatic kingmaker, who has been manipulating the banking system to provide money to ruling party MLAs in order to shift their loyalties.

Jerry learns that Vetrivel's main bank account is in Indulekha's bank, where he tries to inform and warn Indulekha about the scam, but Indulekha doesn't listen to him as she hasn’t forgiven his rejection. Vetrivel learns that Jerry has learnt about his scam and soon kills Jerry. Jerry's death is termed as suicide in the autopsy report by Vetrivel. Later, Indulekha and Jose learn about Vetrivel's scam and his involvement in Jerry's death.

Indulekha complains to the police, but the police are under Vetrivel's payroll and tries to kill her. However, Jose rescues Indulekha by thrashing the cops and they escape, where a cat and mouse game ensues in which Jose and Indulekha manages to save their family, consisting of Jose's mother Rosakutty and Indulekha's sister Niranjana, with the help of Auto Billa, Andrew, and Dilli Babu. Jose and Indulekha exposes Vetrivel's scam and Jose kills Vetrivel using a fish-slicing machine at Vetrivel's fishery factory.

In the aftermath, Jose, Indulekha, Rosakutty and Niranjana return to Idukki. They soon receive a parcel containing Andrew's severed head with a letter sent by Vetrivel's business partner, who wages a war against Jose for Vetrivel's death.

Cast

Mammootty as Aruvipurathu Jose / Turbo Jose (Josutty)

Raj B. Shetty as Vetrivel Shanmugha Sundaram

Anjana Jayaprakash as Indulekha S Nair

Shabareesh Varma as Jerry

Sunil as Auto Billa

Kabir Duhan Singh as Vincent

Niranjana Anoop as Sithara, Jerry's friend

Bindu Panicker as Aruvippurathu Rosakutty, Jose's mother

Amina Nijam as Niranjana, Indulekha's sister

Roshan Chandra as Jerry's Elder brother

Adarsh Sukumaran as Rajesh, Jose and Jerry's friend

Dileesh Pothan as Andrew, a Chennai-based businessman

Namo Narayanan as Dilli Babu

Johny Antony as Vakkachan, Jose's Neighbour

Basil Paulose as DCP Sukumar IPS

Saravanan as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

Aruldoss as CI Shakthivel

Nishanth Sagar as Nikhil, Indulekha's brother

Abu Salim as Salim, Andrew's bodyguard and driver

Prasanth Alexander as CI Davis George

Abin Bino as Sijo, Jose's Friend

Kottayam Ramesh as Mathew / Mathukkutty, Jerry's father

Spadikam Sunny as Indulekha's uncle

Kunchan as Seban

Mani Shornur as Fr. Thomas

P R Rajasekharan as Tea shop owner

Vineeth Thattil David as Arival Sabu

Sandhya Manoj as employee at Vetrivel's company

Manjula Mohandas as Reporter Yamini

Besant Ravi as Vettu Mani

Manju Satheesh as Susy, Jerry's mother

Jayanthi as Indulekha's mother

Divya Nair as Geetha, Sukumar's wife

Jess Sweejan as Shivani, Sukumar's daughter

Sruthy Suresh as Nurse

Ajit Koshy as SI Gunasekharan

Supergood Subramani as SI Maarimuthu

Vijay Sethupathi as Vetrivel's business partner (post-credits; voice role)

Production

Turbo was made on a budget of around ₹70 crore.The film was officially announced on 24 October 2023. The principal photography commenced in October 2023 in Coimbatore and wrapped up on 18 February 2024.

Music

The music and background score for the film was composed by Christo Xavier. The lyrics was written by Vinayak Sasikumar, Vaisakh Sugunan and SVDP. The track "Turbo Trailer Theme", which released on 12 May 2024. The first single "Burnout The Engine" was released on 29 May 2024. The second single "Maayika Maname" was released on 5 June 2024.
Track listing
No. Title Lyrics Singer(s) Length
1. "Turbo Trailer Theme" Vaisakh Sugunan Arjun Ashokan
Christo Xavier 2:14
2. "Burnout The Engine" SVDP SVDP 2:43
3. "Maayika Maname" Vinayak Sasikumar
Sooraj Santhosh
3:13

Box office

On its opening day Turbo earned ₹6.25 crore from Kerala. The film grossed ₹3.40 crore in India on 23 May 2024. On its second day, the film grossed ₹8.1 crore worldwide, making a total of ₹15.50 crore.In its first week, the film grossed ₹58 crore worldwide, ₹29.5 crore from India and ₹28.5 crore from overseas.

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