Appan (film)
Appan () is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language tragedy-drama film co-written and directed by Maju and jointly produced by Josekutty Madathil, and Ranjith Manambarakkat under the banners of Sunny Wayne Productions and Tiny Hands Productions. The film stars Wayne as a rubber tapper, with Ananya, Alencier Ley Lopez, Grace Antony, and Pauly Valsan featuring in major supporting roles. The cinematography of Appan was done by Pappu and was edited by Kiran Das. The soundtrack was composed by Dawn Vincent. Plot
Njoonju, a rubber tapper lives with his father, mother, wife and his son in a small village. Ittychan, his father is a bedridden man, but has always been and continues to be narcissistic, cruel, and a womaniser despite being bedridden. He harasses, abuses, and tortures his wife, Kuttyamma and Njoonju. All his family members wait longingly for his death. Many villagers who had bitter experience of his behavior in the past even makes plan to kill him. Ittychan manipulates his family members to bring their next-door neighbour and prostitute, Sheela to live with him and take care of him. Though initially the family and Sheela were at loggerheads, both parties warm up to each other as the family sees Sheela is a good-natured woman who ended up in this stage due to different situations (later they understand Ittychan had killed Sheela's father to own her and then dragged her to their hometown resulting in her current situation of having to fend for herself through prostitution), and Sheela sees the family are good people unlike Ittychan. Noonju makes plan to leave the village but can't force himself to leave from his duties as a son. Meanwhile, Ittychan's friend dies committing suicide after listening to news that one Kuriakose is released from Jail. On a Christmas evening Kuriakose, whose wife was raped and killed by Ittychan, comes to their house to kill him. Njoonju tries to protect his father. While Njoonju and Kuriakose were fighting Ittychan asks Kuriakose to kill Njoonju and to take the women and in return give back his life. Sheela gets furious by his words and stabs Ittychan to death. Kuriakose leaves the house. Njoonju and family informs the neighborhood that Ittychan died from a mild attack. It is indicated that Njoonju's family and Sheela together lived peacefully in that home after that. Cast 
Sunny Wayne as Njoonju
Alencier Ley Lopez as Ittychan, Njoonju's father
Pauly Valsan as Kuttyamma, Ittychan's wife
Ananya as Rosy, Njoonju's wife
Grace Antony as Molykutty, Njoonju's younger sister
Vijilesh Karayad as Boban, Molykutty's husband
Radhika Radhakrishnan as Sheela
Anil K. Sivaram as Varghese, Ittychan's friend
Drupad Krishna as Abel, Njoonju's son
Geethi Sangeetha as Latha ,a neighbour 
Unni Raja as Suku
Shamsudheen Makarathodi as Jhonson
Ashraf as Kuriako

Filming
The film began principal photography in September 2021 at Thodupuzha in Kerala, where the film was extensively shot. Filming was completed in 50 days. Release 
Initially the film was planned to be released in theatres. Later the film was released through the SonyLIV platform on 27 October 2022. Awards
 Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor: Alencier Ley Lopez

 Kerala State Film Awards for Special  Mention:Alencier Ley Lopez

References

2022 films
2022 drama films
Indian drama films
2020s Malayalam-language films
Indian direct-to-video films
2022 direct-to-video films
SonyLIV original films
Films about dysfunctional families
Films shot in Idukki