Madhura Naranga 2015

In Sharjah, two taxi drivers, Jeevan (Kunchacko Boban) and Salim (Biju Menon), share a modest villa with Kumar (Neeraj Madhav), a companion who keeps their day-to-day life company. On duty, Jeevan picks up a woman named Thamara Muthulingam, who hurries into his taxi with no clear destination and a palpable air of trouble. He drops her at a beach, asks her to leave, but the next day she returns and explains her harsh reality: she is a Sri Lankan Tamil orphan who was duped into joining a Dubai dance bar. When her sponsor confronts her in the dressing room after she escapes, she hits him with a bottle in panic and flees, eventually climbing into Jeevan’s cab again.

Moved by her plight, Jeevan lets Thamara stay at the villa. His roommates are wary at first, but gradually warm to her presence as days turn into weeks, and Jeevan finds himself drawn to her. Salim begins digging into the sponsor’s fate and uncovers that the sponsor remains hospitalized while the police close in on Thamara. To shield her, Jeevan enlists the help of a friend, Ashraf, to arrange safer accommodations with a group of women workers, and Thamara reluctantly agrees to stay with them. One night, after a labour-check, Thamara returns with Jeevan to the villa, and the pair share a deep, intimate moment. Soon afterwards, Thamara discovers she is pregnant, and Jeevan takes steps to protect her. With assistance from Deepa, a doctor and a friend’s wife, the baby is delivered at the villa.

A couple of years pass, and tragedy strikes when Jeevan has an accident and falls into a coma. A distant relative arranges for his return to his homeland. At the same time, Thamara is arrested by the police at the behest of her sponsor and is deported. Their infant son, Kannan, is sent to an orphanage, and Salim is sentenced to six months in prison for aiding her illegally.

When Jeevan recovers, he travels to Sri Lanka to locate Thamara and is met by Salim. A London-based couple expresses interest in adopting Kannan, but the only way to prevent this is for Jeevan and Thamara to appear together in UAE court to claim custody. Unable to locate Thamara, they plan to return to the UAE without her. En route to the airport, they come across a bleeding girl and, after stopping to help, discover Thamara at the hospital, caring for other children. Reunited, the pair succeeds in securing custody of Kannan from the UAE court, and their family’s future begins to take shape once more.