Thriller

Tourist Home

- Ten Writer, One Director, One. Shot

Tourist Home is a 2013 Malayalam thriller film directed by Shebi. The film traces a series of incidents that take place in the 10 rooms of a tourist home. The plot revolves around the following characters: two young boys who have a bad past due to their unethical lives, an old man who has come for the medical aid for his grand son in the medical college, a policeman and a whore, a woman who is forced to search unlawful means to earn money to meet the medical expenses for her ill husband, a man who fear to attend an interview and his friend, an astrologer who chants different ways to get a peaceful mind, a daughter who tries to remind the unethical ways of her father, a woman, her daughter and dance master to participate in a dance reality show, a woman who has come to abort her pregnancy from her husband's friend, and a gang who has taken a room for gambling, who are all staying in that ten rooms of the Tourist Home.

Release Date : 2013-07-05

Language :Malayalam

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Mega Media Films

Production Country : India

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Reshma

Original Name : Meera Nandan

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jojo

Original Name : Hemanth Menon

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Sreejith Vijay

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Rejith Menon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rajeev

Original Name : Sreejith Ravi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Traffic Cop

Original Name : Kalabhavan Mani

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Nedumudi Venu

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Lenaa

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Saiju Kurup

Gender : Male

Character Name : Aloysius

Original Name : Suvith Krishna

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mammootty

Original Name : Madhupal

Gender : Male

Character Name : Money Lender

Original Name : Kochu Preman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Thief

Original Name : Kottayam Nazeer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chackochan

Original Name : Idavela Babu

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sathyanathan

Original Name : Maniyanpilla Raju

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Kunchan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Shivankutty

Original Name : Narayanankutty

Gender : Male

Character Name : Thief

Original Name : Ajay Nataraj

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Sreelatha

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hooker

Original Name : Archana Menon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pimp

Original Name : Chembil Ashokan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Anitha

Original Name : Sarayu Mohan

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sajan

Original Name : Roshan Basheer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Peethambaran

Original Name : Sunil Sukhada

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Mukundan

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Thezni Khan

Gender : Female

Reviews

neeshaan

@neeshaan

2021-06-23

Director Shebi’s film Tourist Home tells the stories of the people occupying nearly a dozen rooms in a dingy downmarket lodge in the centre of the capital city. Not exactly a new concept, but much of it is fairly engaging and holds our attention. The stories are told without any technical gimmickry or razzmatazz. The camera just passes through every room, hardly ever changing even the angle, but adding layers to the characters and making them denser with each passing. One of the rooms is used as a gambling den by a couple of thugs. Its regular patrons include a lowly politician, a money lender and other such characters. A debt-ridden young man who faces eviction from his home in distant Malappuram loses the last bit of hope after he is incited by the others to try his luck at cards one more time and loses. In another room an astrologer counsels his clients, who include a teenager fantasising about an actress and an old man having sleepless nights worrying about nothing in particular. A third room is occupied by two pickpockets who are in dire need of money to clear their dues but when they get the amount, they are filled with remorse and search for redemption for their actions. A teenage student is anxiously waiting for his girlfriend to visit his room for the first time, and finds that she is using him to sort out the tangled web that her parents' life has become. There are other interesting narratives. Like the pregnant woman who has come here with a man and the two initially look like the ideal couple. Later it is revealed that the pregnancy is the result of an extra-marital affair and it is too late for them to find the usual solution. Two young friends waiting to start a new life are on their last trip together before one of them flies off to begin a new life. Then one gruesome act of theirs buries the bright future in darkness. There is a huge assembly of actors playing these characters including Nedumudi Venu and Kalabhavan Mani among the veterans and Hemanth Menon, Roshan Basheer, Sreejith Vijay and Meera Nandan representing the younger set. Sreejith Ravi and Lena are also in the film. With less than two hours of run time, one feels that justice has not been done to the talent at the disposal of the director. A couple of cliched tales could have been avoided and the interesting ones could have been given more depth or made tighter. Yet, Tourist Home is an interesting one-time watch.