A burnt-out behavioral analyst in Kerala races to stop a series of ritualistic murders linked by 2016 lottery tickets, only to receive calls from a man officially dead for ten years — forcing him to confront his powerful father-in-law’s darkest secret and the terrible price of protecting his family.

SYNOPSIS:

THE DEAD MAN’S CALL is a tense Mollywood-style political thriller about silence, complicity, and the cycles of power in Kerala.

Behavioral analyst Albert “Alby” Joseph is used to seeing patterns others miss. When four seemingly unrelated middle-class citizens — a cyber-café owner, a panchayat clerk, a printing press operator, and a secretly party-funded YouTuber — are murdered across Kerala with symbolic mutilations (finger, ear, eyes, tongue), local police dismiss it as the work of a deranged serial killer. Alby, however, discovers a subtle clue the others overlook: each victim carried an obsolete 2016 Kerala State Lottery ticket, the same series once used as untraceable “facilitation money.”

As Alby digs deeper, his prediction of the next murder goes horribly wrong when a violent attack strikes the family of rising politician Rajan Menon’s son. Then comes the first phone call — from a man officially declared dead for ten years.

What begins as a procedural hunt for a killer slowly unravels into something far more personal. The murders are connected to a brilliant, ruthless cover-up orchestrated by Alby’s own father-in-law, Isaac, during the 2016 elections — a ghost-voter manipulation scheme that protected the party at the cost of four innocent lives. Now, a vengeful orchestrator from the shadows (Suresh) and his broken instrument (Arjun, son of one of the original silenced men) are repeating the pattern with poetic brutality.

As Alby races against time, he faces mounting pressure: doubting colleagues, a strained marriage, and Isaac’s subtle manipulation from his paralysed bed. With each new revelation, Alby is forced to confront his own compromised past — a moment years ago when he looked the other way to “protect” his family.

In a rain-soaked climax of moral reckoning, Alby must decide whether to expose the truth and destroy everything he loves, or become the new keeper of the silence — exactly like the man he once helped protect.

The Dead Man’s Call is a slow-burn psychological thriller about the terrible weight of “wrong but right,” where the line between justice and survival blurs, and the ghosts of past elections refuse to stay buried.