Marques and Samuel take Shafeer into confidence, both confirm that Abraham Ezra's story is true by exhuming the wooden mannequin. Thus is created the Dybbuk box which eventually finds its way to Ranjan. Yakoob takes the corpse and dumps it in the sea. A wooden dummy is buried in place of Ezra's body. He euthanises and puts his son's soul into a Dybbuk box, which on opening will release Ezra's spirit that will possess and destroy. When the doctors said that Ezra will be in this state for the rest of his life, Yakoob decides to take revenge on the town using black magic. In the ensuing scrimmage, Rosy's father is killed and Ezra is left paralysed. Rosy's father finds Ezra's letter and he with the villagers confronts the father-son duo when they arrive in Thiru Kochi. Months later, a depressed Ezra writes to Rosy telling her to end the relationship and Rosy commits suicide in heartbreak. Rosy does not reveal to her father nor Yakoob that Ezra is her unborn child's father. Ezra's father Yakoob Ezra refuses to let him marry Rosy, since she is not a Jew, and that marrying a woman of a lower social status is unacceptable. Rosy is not able to tell Ezra that she is pregnant. The film moves to the historical era, where a rich Jewish boy Abraham Ezra ( Sudev Nair) and a poor Christian girl Rosy (Ann Sheetal) fall in love during Ezra's visits to Thiru Kochi, and eventually Rosy becomes pregnant. Ranjan and Marques find an ex-Jew named Joshua Yehudi, a former friend of Marques' father, and get a historical book from him, which reveals the story of Abraham Ezra in 1941 in Thiru-Kochi. Marques arrives in Kochi and finds the Dybbuk is named Abraham Ezra. Ranjan requests Rabbi Benyamin's son, Rabbi Marques ( Sujith Shankar) for help. The next day, Rabbi Benyamin dies and Ranjan learns that Priya is pregnant and realizes his child will be possessed by the dybbuk. He tells Ranjan that the Dybbuk only possesses people with mental instability or children under 3 years, and whoever exorcises the Dybbuk becomes its worst enemy. At his behest, Ranjan finds more about the Dybbuk from a Rabbi David Benyamin ( Babu Antony) in Mumbai. Samuel feels that something is amiss and he tells Ranjan that the box from the antique shop is a Dybbuk box, with the name “Abraham Ezra” written on it in Hebrew. Ranjan's uncle Father Samuel ( Vijayaraghavan), who had looked after Ranjan as an orphan, is invited to Ranjan's house. ![]() Upon opening it, paranormal experiences begin. On a retail therapy, Priya buys the strange box from the antique shop. Being both a Marathi and a Malayali, Priya finds it hard to adjust to the shift from Mumbai to Kerala. Ranjan Mathew ( Prithviraj Sukumaran), a nuclear waste management specialist based in Mumbai, is transferred to Kochi with wife Priya Raghuram ( Priya Anand). A.C.P Shafeer Ahammed ( Tovino Thomas) is assigned the case but is unable to reach a lead. An unseen force from the box mauls and kills a worker in his shop at night. An antique seller steals antique items including a strange looking box with Jewish inscriptions from the Jew's house. The film opens with the death of the last Malabar Jew in Cochin. The film was inspired by hollywood horror film The Possession (2012). It was remade in Hindi in 2021 as Dybbuk. The movie grossed ₹50 crore at the box-office. ![]() Major filming locations were Fort Cochin and Sri Lanka. Principal photography began in late-June 2016. ![]() starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, Priya Anand, Tovino Thomas, Sujith Shankar, Vijayaraghavan Pillai, and Sudev Nair in the leading roles. Ezra is a 2017 Indian Malayalam-language supernatural horror thriller film written and directed by Jay K.
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