Extra Decent

Extra Decent
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Aamir Pallikkal
Written by	Ashif Kakkodi
Produced by	Listin Stephen Suraj Venjaramoodu
Starring	Suraj Venjaramoodu Grace Antony Shyam Mohan Sudheer Karamana Vinaya Prasad
Cinematography	Sharon Sreenivas
Edited by	Sreejith Sarang
Music by	Ankit Menon
Production companies	Magic Frames Vilasini Cinemas
Distributed by	Magic Frames
Release date	20 December 2024 (2024-12-20)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Extra Decent (also marketed as ED - Extra Decent) is a 2024 Malayalam language dark comedy thriller film directed by Aamir Pallikkal. featuring Suraj Venjaramoodu, Grace Antony, Shyam Mohan, Sudheer Karamana and Vinaya Prasad in lead roles

Plot

Binu starts to have mental health issues after witnessing the accidental death of his elder brother Shibi. His father Das shames him for his incompetence, while his sister Nishima builds a career in the United States. Soon, Binu uncovers a dark history, unveiling a twisted tale of revenge and redemption within his morally ambiguous family, which forms the rest of the story.

The film opens with Binu being hit by his apartment security guard. The guard, who is fed up with his life with unsupportive children, is desperate for some food and shelter without working and wants to go to jail. To achieve this he hits Binu, who ends up in the hospital in a coma. On waking up, he has retrograded amnesia and cannot remember anything in his immediate past. Once he is admitted to hospital, his father Das, Mother Lakshmi, Sister Nishima and friend Sanju rush to the hospital. They appear very frantic over some undisclosed issue and are seen huddling together and discussing what to do next. Dr. Rupesh who is treating Binu, decides to bring his old friend from abroad to try and cure Binu’s amnesia. At this point, Binu’s parents and sister open up to their flat mate Dr. Ajmal khan about the whole fiasco.

Binu has been eccentric and mentally affected since his childhood, from the time he witnessed the accidental death of his elder brother whom he loved very much and looked up to. His brother had to be admitted to a hospital for 3 months because of his burn injury after which he succumbed. When his sister gets ready to relocate to the US for a job, he accidentally notices the date of birth of his sister in her passport. Binu who clearly remembers his brother’s death date, starts calculating and relating his younger sister’s birthdate with his brother’s death date and concludes that his parents were involved in a physical relationship during the time of his brother’s 3-month hospital stay, after which his sister was born. This incident, together with his father’s attitude towards him, triggers him to be a Psycho. He belittles his parents to have been thinking about sex when their child was in the hospital and breaks things around the house. After that, Binu starts taking control of the household gradually and makes them relocate to a city apartment from their village house.

Once they settle into their apartment, Binu makes life miserable for his parents by enforcing strict exercise, control over phone, fasting during certain days and starts interfering in their freedom every way possible. He starts blackmailing them that he will divulge the secret to his sister if they don’t listen to him. His parents bring his sister back and plan to get her married to her lover Sanju, but Binu foils the marriage by deliberately humiliating Sanju’s parents during the engagement talks. Left with no choice, Nishima must elope and marry Sanju.

It is at this point that Binu loses his memory and his parents insist on not getting his memory back so that he doesn’t return to his old ways. Under the advice of Lakshmi’s old colleague Sanandan, they discharge him from hospital and take him on a pilgrimage, using that time to entirely revamp the apartment to a new look so that Binu doesn’t gain his memories back up on coming back to familiar environments. Once they are back to the completely changed apartment, Binu accidently finds the old chewing gum that he had stuck under his bed, which sparks his mind and brings back all his old memories.

Pretending to be under his amnesic self, Binu offers to drive Nishima and Sanju to the airport on their way back and forcibly takes along his parents and Dr. Ajmal khan in the car as well. He drives them around like a manic and purposefully crashes the car in the end.

Everyone survives the crash and is shown to be admitted to the hospital, ambiguously ending the movie about the fate of the characters.  

Cast

• Suraj Venjaramoodu as Binu Das
• Grace Antony as Nishima Das
• Shyam Mohan as Sanju
• Sudheer Karamana as Das
• Vinaya Prasad as Lakshmi
• Rafi as Dr Ajmalkhan
• Vineeth Thattil David as Sanandan
• Sajin Cherukayil as Dr Rupesh
• Alexander Prasanth as Shibu
• Saji Venjaramoodu
• Priya Sreejith as Nurse
• Sincy Anil as Nurse

Production

The film is produced by Listin Stephen and Suraj Venjaramoodu under the banner of Magic Frames, in association with Vilasini Cinemas.

Soundtrack

Music by

• Ankit Menon
• Arcado
• Ashley Milred
• Electronic Kili

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Machinmele"	Muthu	Ankit Menon, Electronic Kili, Arcado	Electronic Kili, Farsin Sidhu	02:33
2.	"Psycho"	Melvin	Arcado, Ashley Milred	Melvin	03:07

Release

Theatrical

The film released in theatres on 20 December 2024.

Home Media

The digital streaming rights of the film is acquired by Saina Play and will start streaming soon.

Reception

Athira M of The Hindu wrote:"A quirky drama powered by a brilliant Suraj Venjaramoodu". Sreejith Mullapally of Cinema Express rated 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote:"An inconsistent dark comedy with an in-form Suraj Venjaramoodu". Sanjith Sidhardhan of OTTPlay rated the film 3/5 stars and wrote:"Suraj Venjaramoodu's dark comedy had promise but falters due to inconsistent writing".

External links

• Extra Decent at IMDb
• "Extra Decent Official Trailer" on YouTube
• "Psycho Video Song" on YouTube