The News is a 1989 Indian Malayalam-language mystery thriller film written by Jagadish and directed by Shaji Kailas and produced by G.R.Sureshkumar, starring Suresh Gopi, Ranjini, Lizy and Babu Antony. This is the debut release of Shaji Kailas. The film was a landmark in Suresh Gopi's career and was one of his first commercially successful films as a solo hero. Plot After getting turned down in his application to become an Inspector, Rishi Menon starts his own detective agency, where he is handed an assignment to investigate the murder of a woman named Jolly and the disappearance of a college student named Roy. Arun, Roy and Albert are Megha’s juniors in college and known to Rishi since Rishi and Megha are in a relationship and soon to be engaged. Arun’s father Viswanathan is the MP from ruling party and a straightforward man who does not allow his son to take advantage of his position. However, Viswanathan’s arch rival MLA George Thomas tries all trick-in-a-book to bring down Viswanathan, even going to the extent of harassing Arun and his friends with the help of his corrupt police officer friend CI Freddy. One night, Albert hears some noises coming from above the house and gets scared, he comes down to alert his friends. Roy goes up to the terrace to check, but does not return. His friends start searching for him everywhere thinking he’s pulling a prank on them and even go outside to their usual haunts to check, but without any success. In the morning shortly after they are back, the maid finds blood coming from their tap. On checking further in the terrace they find a corpse of a girl. Arun and his friends are arrested, where George Thomas and Freddy capitalize on the situation, alleging that Roy and his friends including Arun murdered the women and dumped her body in the tank, and Roy is in hiding. At this point, Vishanathan hands over the case to Rishi’s detective agency. Rishi finds out that the murdered girl Jolly and Roy were in a relationship. When he investigates further from her hostel, he finds out from her friends that Jolly had a troubled childhood since her father abandoned her mother when she was pregnant with her, resulting in both of them living a hard life. Jolly starts hating men and to take out her frustration starts pretending to be in love