

It is later revealed that the gold was supposed to be dowry for the marriage between Sumangli Unnikrishnan, daughter of Unnikrishnan, the owner of the shopping complex in which Joshi's mobile shop is situated, and Unnikrishnan's friend, "Idea" Shaji's son, Suneesh. Later, Joshi sells one of the gold bar to "Gold" Musthafa for ₹45 lakhs and proceeds to buy 20 of the real portable speakers, of the same model as the ones in the truck, intending on switching the real speakers with the gold bars. The police arrive to investigate, but decide to leave the truck due to unavailability of ground space in the police station. Joshi, who believes that he has struck gold, literally, buys a gold furnace from an acquaintance and melts one speaker. The next morning, Joshi discovers that the small boxes inside the truck are not portable speakers, but gold bars painted as speakers. Joshi complains to the police, but they're busy and decide to look into it slowly. However on the delivery day, Joshi and his mother find that someone has parked a pickup truck with a load of portable speakers. S Kunjan, who owns a mobile shop, purchases a new car owing to a marriage alliance, that is almost fixed with Radha. Initially set for worldwide theatrical release during Onam, in September 2022, it was deferred due to delays in the post-production and eventually opened in theatres on 1 December 2022, where it received mixed reviews from critics and became a box-office bomb. Principal photography commenced in September 2021 and ended in June 2022. It marks his return to direction after seven years since Premam (2015). In addition to writing, editing and directing the film, Puthren also worked on the stunt choreography, visual effects, color grading, and animation titles of the film. The film stars Prithviraj Sukumaran and Nayanthara, along with a supporting cast of Mallika Sukumaran, Shammi Thilakan, Lalu Alex, Baburaj, Ajmal Ameer, Shanthi Krishna, Jagadish, Krishna Sankar, Roshan Mathew, Vinay Forrt, and Saiju Kurup. It was jointly produced by Supriya Menon of Prithviraj Productions and Listin Stephen of Magic Frames. Gold is an 2022 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film written, directed and edited by Alphonse Puthren.
