Gold

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Gold is an 2022  Malayalam crime comedy film written, directed and edited by Alphonse Puthren. The movie showcases the incidents that take place within four days of Joshi, a mobile shop owner, purchasing a new car owing to a marriage alliance that is almost fixed with a girl called Radha. However on the delivery day, Joshi and his mother find that someone has parked a pickup truck with a load of portable speakers. Joshi complains to the police, but they're busy and decide to look into it slowly. The next morning, Joshi discovers that the small boxes inside the truck are not portable speakers, but gold bars.

Joshi, who believes that he has struck gold literally arranges a gold furnace and melts one speaker. The police arrive to investigate, but decides to leave the truck due to unavailability of ground in police station. Using the black money from selling one gold bar, Joshi buys 20 portable speakers of same model as the ones in truck, and exchanges the 20 speakers with gold ones. It is later revealed that the gold was supposed to be dowry for the marriage between Sumangli Unnikrishnan, who is the daughter of Unnikrishnan, an owner of a shopping complex (where Joshi's mobile shop is situated), and Unnikrishnan's friend "Idea" Shaji's son Suneesh.

The truck was actually ambushed by another gang, headed by Freddy, who learnt about the gold, and arrives to retrieve it, but Joshi thrashes them. Unnikrishnan and his daughter Sumangali tries to retrieve the gold, but to no avail, where Joshi's wedding alliance is also called off. The police clears the station ground and informs Joshi that they will take the truck next evening. Unnikrishnan cancels Sumangali's marriage as he learns that Shaji and Suneesh only wants the dowry. With time running out as only 20 gold bars are changed, Joshi manages to buy 180 portable speakers and changes the gold bars with it. Later, Sumangali takes over her father as owner of the complex.

6 months later, Joshi sends the letter to the CM Kalamassery Ajayan, revealing that he delivered ₹85 crore of black money to a charity fund anonymously, in order to provide houses to poor and laptops to students and has taken 10℅ of the total money as tax, and refers himself as "GOLD". It is also revealed that the four gold bars which Joshi couldn't steal, are still inside the truck. Sumangali is also revealed to have an interest in Joshi, deciding whether to choose Joshi or gold.