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Over the last five years, I have realized one thing: Basil Joseph could have played Minnal Murli better than Tovino Thomas. Basil has a certain inbuilt insouciance about him, the ability to see through life, and how genuinely ridiculous it can be.

In Maranamaas, which Tovino has co-produced, Basil is a self-appointed ‘cool dude’: dyed hair, preposterous clothes with an attitude to match. Luke thinks he has all the answers when, in fact, he is clueless about the questions themselves. His neighbours are annoyed by his busybody gimmicks and have crowd-funded his migration.

When we first meet him his girlfriend Jessie (Anishma Anilkumar) has decided to leave Luke: she can’t take his strutting and preening anymore. How is Jessie to know that she would soon be in a bus with a dead man who she has accidently killed when he tried to molest her.

The dead man Kurup...

Global, 04 March 2025: Get ready to buckle up for a wild, laugh-out-loud ride with the digital premiere of Tamil blockbuster, Kudumbasthan, streaming to ZEE5 Global, the world’s largest streaming platform for South Asian content on March 7, 2025! Directed by Rajeshwar Kalisamy in his debut outing, this laugh-out-loud drama brings together an all-star cast featuring K. Manikandan and Saanve Megghana in the lead, with Nivedita Rajappan, Guru Somasundaram, R. Sundarrajan, and Kudassanad Kanakam adding their own hilarious touch. Naveen (Manikandan), a lovable but hopelessly unlucky graphic designer, finds his life spiraling into chaos when he loses his job right after his wife, Vennila (Megghana), reveals she’s pregnant. What follows is a rollercoaster of bad decisions, mounting debts, and enough awkward family moments to make you cringe—and laugh till you cry!

Naveen’s desperate attempts to keep his mounting financial woes and unemployment a secret turn his life into a circus.