Love in Singapore (2009): Cast & Plot

Machu is an orphan who becomes rich by selling scrap, a rise that begins in a large hall at a bottle-recycling factory in Kochi. He starts off humble and uneducated, keeping a low profile as he moves through life with restraint. He finds companionship in his two close friends, Shukkoor and Narayanan, and his business soon expands beyond the hall with branches across India.

Everything shifts when Andrews Perreira, an Anglo-Indian investor, entangles him in a scheme that lures Machu into investing all his wealth into Perreira’s company. Perreira crafts a dramatic scene, even feigning a suicide attempt to color the transaction with urgency. Believing the story, Machu and several other innocent investors are moved to forgive him, thinking the fault lies elsewhere, not in the manipulator’s craft.