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Commissioner washes his hand clean of any involvement with James. James and Nandu face dismissal and to escape from this situation, the home minister's gun man and childhood friend, Mathew Kuruvilla, suggest to the duo to enlist the help of a local politician, Chellappan. Chellapan is a barber by trade but seems to have a lot of influence, money and power. Kuruvilla advises James and Nandu to curry favour with Chellapan by "wining and dining" him and treating him to a courtesan flown in specially from Bombay. Despite a disagreement over enlisting Chellapan's help (Nandu is opposed to giving bribes, whereas James is very pragmatic), a highly satisfied Chellapan persuades the Home Minister to get Nandu and James into the special squad as punishment transfer instead of dismissing them (despite the opposition of the Commissioner who wanted Nandu sacked). Here, the duo are put in dangerous operations to catch criminals. James's many cowardly actions make him the target of ridicule within the squad. The harassment against James is led by John, a supporter of the Commissioner. In the meantime, Kuruvilla is suffering from some unknown eye issues, the home minister suspects that Kuruvilla's drinking habits are to blame.
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Mothiram and suddenly others find a lot of courage in his actions. Single-handedly, James goes after the gang. He talks a bomb-carrying terrorist into releasing his hostages and surrendering to the police. When John and others try to intimidate and harass James, he hits back brutally and bravely, ending that harassment once and for all. Using enhanced interrogation techniques, James discovers details about the supply network of narcotics in the city (Chellapan was using his barber shop as a front) and shuts that network down, cleaning up the city. Bravely, with utter contempt for his own life, James captures the entire gang, exposes corruption in the police force and finally goes after Alberto. James wins respect from the entire police team by his actions.
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Alberto takes a bad turn too. A key piece of evidence (the piece of underwear in which Alberto had hidden the drugs whilst he was arrested) is switched by someone in the police department for the underwear of some child, and since the cloth does not fit, Alberto walks out a free man.
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Kuruvilla who had an auto accident. Kuruvilla, who feared that his accident was due to his consumption of large amounts of alcohol, secretly swaps his blood samples with that of James. Unbeknownst to Kuruvilla, his eye sight loss is not due to his consumption of alcohol but because he is actually suffering from the final stages of Leukaemia; The blood results convince the doctors that it is James who is suffering from stage 4 Leukaemia. Dr. Krishnan Nair (In real life, Dr. Krishnan Nair was a famous cancer specialist and founder of the regional cancer centre in Trivandum) gently tells James that he has very little time left.
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In the midst of an attempt to arrest the narcotics gang, one of the special squad, Saravanan, gets injured and James pretends to tend to him to avoid the fight. When he learns that the injured
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Nandu, Sruthi and others watch in amazement at James's transformation. However, little does James know that the medical diagnosis is wrong due to Kuruvilla switching the samples and that he is, in fact, as healthy as he could be. The movie comically chronicles his new-found bravado and how the
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his son Biju whilst the son was sick, James got separated from Annie and now lives with his son. He tries to care for his son alone and has no intention of reconciling with Annie. James is very cautious about his lifestyle and reprimands Nandu for smoking and endangering his life.
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