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The Third Murder streams on Simply South outside India

Sunil Ibrahim’s Malayalam crime thriller The Third Murder, with Saiju Kurup and Indrans, is on Simply South outside India. ManoramaMAX has the India premiere the same day, in six languages.

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Promotional art for The Third Murder with Saiju Kurup at center, Vinay Forrt and Indrans in profile, a cordoned house and headlights visible through shattered-glass overlays.
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Sunil Ibrahim’s Malayalam crime thriller The Third Murder is streaming outside India on Simply South. Saiju Kurup plays DYSP Christy, the officer assigned to two murders that match each other too closely. Indrans is Swamy, a retired cop Christy calls in for help. Vinay Forrt and Ananya also star. The film opened in theaters on October 2 and runs about two hours two minutes.

Simply South lists the film in Malayalam. The platform serves viewers outside India, including the United States and Canada through its website and app. Apple does not carry a separate rental in either country. In India, ManoramaMAX premiered the film the same day and posted six language tracks: Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, and English.

Stream dateNov. 13. Simply South outside India. ManoramaMAX in India.
U.S.simplysouth.tv/the-third-murder. Malayalam.
CanadaSame Simply South page. Malayalam.
IndiaManoramaMAX. Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, English.
Audio (U.S./Canada)Malayalam.
Subtitles (U.S./Canada)Not shown on the Simply South page.
RuntimeAbout 122 minutes.

Ibrahim wrote and directed. His earlier films include Chapters, Arikil Oraal, and the SonyLIV thriller Roy. M.S. Faizal Khan wrote the story. Sudarsanan Kanjiramkulam produced for Swarnalaya Cinemas. The plot follows Christy and Swamy after a drug dealer and a businessman are killed the same way. The trail leads to a troubled teenager, and they try to stop a third murder before it happens.

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