Jailer is a 2023 Indian Malayalam-language thriller drama film written and directed by Sakkir Madathil. It is a remake of the 1957 Hindi film Do Aankhen Barah Haath, directed by V. Shantaram. The film stars Dhyan Sreenivasan in lead role, alongside Manoj K. Jayan, Divya Pillai and Sreejith Ravi in the supporting cast. Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of a prison officer who stays in a bungalow with five prisoners who were charged with different crimes and his experiments to reform them.
Jailer was released in theatres on 18 August 2023. This movie was a box office bomb.
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Production
The title launch of the film was held in 2022 in Sharjah at the Come On Kerala event. On 4 November 2022, Prithviraj Sukumaran unveiled the film's motion poster through Facebook.