The movie Golam, directed by Samjad, is a thriller that centers around Sandeep, a dedicated police officer who’s on a mission to solve the mystery behind the murder of CEO Isaac John of a company called V-Tech. If you’ve seen Golam film, you probably know that the employees at V-Tech were behind the murder. But what drove them to do such a thing? And how did it all go down? That’s what we’re here to explore in Golam‘s explainer. Let’s find out whether Sandeep manages to bring them to justice.
Spoilers Ahead
Who is Isaac John?
Isaac John is the CEO of V-Tech, an IT firm. Apart from that, he’s been married twice but has no family left except his brother Evan, who lives in the US. John is a loner, deeply immersed in his business and his partnership with Gibson George, who operates from Dubai. This is the impression we get of him at the start. But as the story goes on, we see John’s darker side. He’s also a co-founder of V-Pharmaceuticals, a major name in the medical world. Officially, the company is registered under his brother Evan’s name. Together, they cooked up a rather sinister plan. Actually, John wanted to replicate a scheme used by another company, MIC. MIC had been supplying baby food to people in Africa under the guise of charity. They’d conduct free medical checkups and, after testing the food, launch it as a huge success in the market. John thought he could pull off a similar stunt with his own company. John’s idea was to use his employees at V-Tech as guinea pigs for a new virus called HMV, or the Red Virus. He exposed them to it to study how their bodies react. Using a fingerprint scanner, he collected their samples to monitor their DNA and track the virus’s effects. His plan was to eventually release an antidote and make a breakthrough by catapulting his company to success. But here’s the twist: instead of giving the employees a real antidote, John provided them with black medicines—early-stage drugs that only made their condition worse. He thought he was being clever and believed the employees wouldn’t catch on to his sinister plan and how they were being used. But he really underestimated them.
How did Dr. Chemmanam help the employees?
Dr. Kuriakose Chemmanam and his wife, Dr. Rachel Chemmanam, were respected doctors and played a crucial role in the unfolding drama. One of the V-Tech employees, Meera, started feeling seriously ill and turned to Rachel for help. During her examination, Rachel discovered that Meera was pregnant, but tragically, her baby had died. Meera’s condition was so severe that Rachel referred her to her husband, Dr. Kuriakose, for further treatment. When Kuriakose examined Meera’s blood, he found something unusual: a foreign element, which was the HMV virus that wasn’t present in her previous test results. This discovery was alarming. As more employees from V-Tech came to the doctors for help, the situation became even clearer. Some were losing their eyesight, others were experiencing extreme hair loss, some were having memory loss, and many were suffering from serious skin problems.
Basically, everyone was facing severe health issues, and nothing seemed to help. Kuriakose tested their blood samples and found that all the employees had this similar HMV virus in their systems. It became apparent that the virus was being spread through the water or tea at the company. The employees quickly realized they had to act fast to address this crisis. Through their investigation, they discovered that the virus was part of a sinister plan by their boss, Isaac John. Kuriakose exposed the troubling details of John’s experiment and how he was using the employees as test subjects for a new antidote he planned to launch. They found out that John was more interested in his own profit margin than the well-being of his employees. The employees knew they couldn’t just sit back and wait for their health to deteriorate further. They realized that if they didn’t take action, John would keep doing what he was doing, and they would only get sicker. With this new information, they understood that they had to stop John to prevent further harm. So, they decided to take drastic measures to seek justice and put an end to John’s dangerous experiments by killing him.
How did the employees take revenge?
The employees came up with a carefully thought-out plan to kill John by trapping him in the office bathroom. Here’s how they executed it: First, they decided to go about their usual office routine to avoid raising any suspicion. They continued to greet John every morning and interact with him just as they always did. The plan was to keep everything looking normal until they were ready to execute their scheme. The key to their plan was to use CO2 gas to suffocate John. They set up a pipe connected to the air duct of the office bathroom. The idea was to pump CO2 into the bathroom, where John would be trapped and unable to escape. Here’s how they set it up: The office maid was instructed to tamper with the coffee machine. She placed a paper in such a way that, when John went to get his coffee, it would spray coffee on his clothes. This would force him to go to the bathroom to clean up. Once John entered the bathroom, one of the employees would quickly lock the door from the outside and use a hairclip to jam the lock, which would make it impossible for John to open it from inside. The employees planned to make sure it looked like the maid was just vacuuming the office, which would mask any noise from John’s attempts to get help. As soon as John was in the bathroom, one of the employees started pumping CO2 through the duct into the bathroom. They knew John had asthma, so they were confident this would make the situation even more critical for him. John tried to call for help and made a lot of noise, but it seemed like no one could hear him. He fell to the floor, unable to breathe properly, and his head started to bleed. Eventually, John died from the lack of oxygen. But it looked like he fell on the bathroom floor and hit his head and ended up bleeding from the head and died there.
From the very start, Inspector Sandeep knew that the employees were behind John’s death. But after hearing their side of the story and understanding their motive, he realized that John’s death was, in a way, inevitable and even justified. Sandeep felt that what they did was an act of defense against someone who had become a dangerous threat. So, instead of labeling it as murder, he decided to call it an accidental death and close the case. He didn’t want the employees to face consequences for taking down someone as vicious as John. But Sandeep’s investigation didn’t stop there. He discovered that Gibson George was also part of John’s scheme. Now that Sandeep knows where V-Pharmaceuticals is based and Gibson’s connection to it, he might help the employees protect themselves from the new threat as he becomes the new boss of the company. We’re hoping that Sandeep will gather enough evidence against Gibson George and bring him to justice as well.
