The Proposal

The Proposal is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language musical and romantic comedy film written and directed by Joe Joseph, and produced by Silver Cloud Pictures. The film was released on 27 May 2022 as an OTT/Online Streaming on Saina Play. The story, set in Australia, revolves around a student visa holder Davis Mizpah (Joe Joseph) and his friend Archith Kumar Chandran Cherupalassery (Anumodh Paul). Davis happens to meet Sandra (Amara Raja) through a matrimonial website which leads to a turn in his life. Plot Davis arrives in Canberra, Australia as a student visa holder, one year after his friend Archith Kumar. During the course of his student visa, he intentionally falls in love with Anjana to get a permanent resident visa in Australia. In early 2020, Anjana goes to her home in Kerala and gets stuck there due to pandemic. Knowing that she is not coming back to Australia, Davis, along with Archith attempts for an unusual smuggling in hopes to attain a lump sum amount of money before they leave Australia. When that plan hilariously fails, Mathews and Reena who see Davis and Archith as their own younger brothers, advice Davis to lead a happy and normal life by getting married. Davis ventures to matrimonial website with a demand - "no dowry asked but sponsor me with a permanent visa in Australia". When Davis meets Sandra, who is a very free-spirit independent woman with a dreadful-turned-strong background, his life takes a turn. Cast Joe Joseph as Davis Mizpah Amara Raja as Sandra Anumodh Paul as Archith Kumar Chandran Cherupalassery Clair Sara Martin as Anjana Suhas Pattathil as Mathews Karthika Menon Thomas as Reena Sana Subedi as Nisha Production Silver Cloud Pictures had scheduled to start principal photography of the film in Ooty from early 2020 but the project got abandoned due to the pandemic. Joe Joseph, who was originally assigned to write the script and play the character of Archith Kumar Chandran Cherupalassery suggested a revised modern production strategy to shoot the film in Australia with an extremely low budget. However, the director who was supposed to direct the film expressed an inconvenience to travel to Australia and left the project. Joe Joseph stepped up to a director and lead actor role in order to complete the film and a new casting call was conducted to cast new comers to all the roles in the film.