Puthiya Mukham
Puthiya Mukham () is a 2009 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film  directed by Diphan and written by M. Sindhuraj. The film stars Prithviraj, Bala and Priyamani with Sudheesh, Meera Nandan, Nedumudi Venu and Vijayaraghavan in supporting roles. It was shot at locations in Kochi, Thrissur, Palakkad, and Malaysia. The film's original background score and the soundtrack were composed by Deepak Dev. Puthiya Mukham was a major commercial success at the box office and was noted for making Prithviraj a superstar in the Malayalam film industry. It was dubbed in Tamil with the same name and in Telugu as Yama Mudhuru. It was remade in Kannada as Ziddi. Plot
Krishnakumar alias Kichu is a resident of an agraharam in Kalpathy, who pursues a career as a percussionist and teaches the mridangam to local students. Kicha is in love with Sreedevi, who is the daughter of Kichu's family friend and their relationship is supported by both families. Kichu moves to the city of Kochi to enroll in an engineering college. Sudhi is a senior student and the younger brother of gangster brothers Mahi and Giri. Sudhi is a bully who also looks after his brothers' crime dealings. In all his endeavours on the campus, Sudhi is supported by his brothers. Anjana, who is SI Shivaraman's daughter joins the engineering college. Sudhi is in love with Anjana, where he tries to win her love by concealing and temporarily stopping all his illegal activities. Kichu wins the heart of everyone in the college. Sudhi suspects that Anjana is attracted to Kichu, where he sends his brothers with an official proposal to Anjana's family. They accept the proposal and force the reluctant Anjana to agree. However, Anjana stipulates a condition: there will be no marriage immediately. Sudhi has to wait for 4 years for the marriage and Anjana will have freedom for these 4 years. The freedom of Anjana and the way she exercises it makes Sudhi jealous and suspicious. Sudhi wants to scare Kichu out of the college and arranges an attack on him at the college hostel. Kichu apparently receives a blow on his head and attacks his own friend who tried to rescue him. Kichu is admitted in a hospital and a doctor reveals that Kichu is suffering from a flashback phenomenon. When Kichu was young, he had witnessed the death of his younger brother, who was hit by a bus and traumatic incidents like this will turn him violent. Following this, Sreedevi's family disapproves of the marriage and his own family does not want him to go to college anymore, but his father urges him to go back and achieve something in life. Kichu arrives back to college where he thrashes up Sudhi and his friends. Sudhi's brothers turn in for help, but Kichu mortally wounds Mahi and sends him in a coma. Shivaraman, who is in cahoots with Mahi and Giri, arrests Kichu and takes him to the police station. At the station, Kichu learns that he is going to be transported to the sub-jail where his execution is planned. Kichu turns violent and storms the police station, where he is hit by a policeman and apparently falls unconscious, but is only a ruse. Kichu is rushed to the hospital, where he escapes from the police. Sudhi kidnaps Anjana and a final showdown ensues at an abandoned construction site where a heated argument and close-combat ensues which leads to Sudhi's death and Kichu walks away with Anjana, who has now fallen for Kichu. 