: Won a record-breaking 8 Kerala State Film Awards , sweeps including Best Actor (Dulquer Salmaan), Best Actress (Parvathy), and Best Director (Martin Prakkat).
Charlie centers on (Parvathy), a free-spirited graphic artist who runs away from home to escape an arranged marriage. She rents a messy, art-filled room previously occupied by an enigmatic nomad named Charlie (Dulquer Salmaan). After discovering an incomplete sketchbook outlining a real-life mystery, Tessa embarks on a cat-and-mouse chase across Kerala to find this modern-day "Genie" who alters the lives of everyone he meets. Cultural Impact and Remakes
But if you try to search for this movie online today, especially if you're a non-Malayali or an NRI, you’ll almost certainly run into a very different kind of beast. A term that lives in the dark alleys of the internet:
