Taking inspiration from a real event that occurred back in 2006, Malayalam survival thriller movie which tells the story of a bunch of pals hailing from Kochi made history by becoming the first Malayalam film to amass Rs 200 crore in the global market.

The film, directed by Chidambaram S Poduval, and featuring Soubin Shahir, Ganapathi, Khalid Rahman, and Sreenath Bhasi in the lead, was an instant hit among the Malayali audience. The film received a landslide reception from other language audiences as well. Recently released in Telugu and became blockbuster.

Usually, dubbed movies will not have a long run, except for in rare cases. Particularly, movies with no big stars will hardly run in theatres in the second week. Surprisingly, the survival thriller Manjummel Boys is still doing wonders at the ticket windows in its third-week run.

The movie directed by Chidambaram is raking in good numbers during weekdays. Over 10.29K were booked in the last 24 hours in the ticketing portal BookMyShow, which is a great attainment for a dubbed movie. The film is providing double profits to buyers

The film will be available for streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar from May 3rd. The film will be streaming in Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada languages.

Babu Shahir, Soubin Shahir, and Shawn Antony produced the movie on Parava Films banner. The Telugu version is presented by Naveen Yerneni and Ravi Shankar Yalamanchili. Shyju Khalid cranked the camera, while Sushin Shyam provided the music. Vivek Harshan is the editor and Ajayan Chalissery is the production designer.

‘Manjummal Boys’ is a movie based on the true experience of the youths from Ernakulam Manjummal who rescued their friend who got trapped in Gunacave in Kodaikanal in year 2006. ‘Manjummel Boys’ will be released in Telugu with the same title.