Venicile Vyapari

Set in the period of 1980. The story revolves around Pavithran who lost his parents in his childhood. He enters the police force by chance, though it is not his ambition. Pavithran lands up in Alappuzha (Alappuzha incidentally is attributed to the sobriquet, Venice of the East) disguised as a merchant to investigate the murder of a union leader named Ajayan. Another character is Ammu, the leader of the union of coir workers, who is in love with Pavithran.

• Mammootty as Constable Pavithran, the policeman who investigates Ajayan's murder
• Kavya Madhavan as Ammu
• Poonam Bajwa as Mahalakshmi
• Suraj Venjaramoodu as Chandran Pillai / Odiyan Chandhu
• Jagathy Sreekumar as "Kaladi" Govindan, Ammu's Father
• Salim Kumar as Kamalasanan / Al-Kamalasanan
• Vijayaraghavan as Chungathara Raghavan
• Suresh Krishna as Chungathara Aniyappan
• Biju Menon as Sakhavu Ajayan, Ammu's Brother (Cameo Appearance)
• Janardhanan as SP Raghurama Varma, Mahalakshmi's Father
• Guinness Pakru as Kochukrishnan
• V. K. Sreeraman as Aali Koya
• Abu Salim as Abdu
• Kalabhavan Shajohn as Panchayat President "Isthiri" Lonappan
• Kundara Johny as CI K. Nambeeshan
• Santhosh as SI Karikkan George
• Anjali Nair as Ammu's friend
• Saju Kodiyan as Sunil, Police Constable
• J. Pallassery as Shop Owner

The film was produced by Madhavan Nair under the banner of Murali Films. Mammootty stars in the film with Vijayaraghavan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Salim Kumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Sreeraman, Kalabhavan Shajohn, and Rajan Padoor form the supporting cast.

The shooting commenced in August 2011,^[3] and the film was mostly shot in Alappuzha.^[4] The song "Kannum Kannum" was shot in Ooty.^[5]

The film was scheduled to release on 4 November 2011, but was postponed to 11 November 2011 since there was a delay in the post-production work.^[6] The release was postponed again to 16 December 2011 due to a film strike in Kerala.

Sify movies gave the film a rating of 2.5/5, criticising the script.^{[citation needed]}

The film was a box office underperformer, but the film still have high repeat value. The character Al-Kamalasanan, played by Salim Kumar became a cult fan following and is popular in trolls and memes. The character still have fans across kerala. Additionally, the character Odiyan Chandhu played by Suraj Venjaramoodu became popular in social media, after the success of Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra, in which Dulquer Salman portrayed Charlie, an Odiyan. It was also popularized after the release of Odiyan, starring Mohanlal in the lead role.

Bijibal composed the music for the film which has lyrics by Kaithapram. The film has a remix of the song "Kannum Kannum" from the 1980 film Angadi. Mammootty stated that it was director Shafi's desire to use a hit song of the eighties in a dream scene of the film.^[5]