Fox) is a 2023 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller comedy drama film directed by Jayalal Divakaran in his directorial debut and produced by Maha Subair.

In the film, Inspector Dinesh investigates the death of a social media celebrity and implicates a suspect in the case, which eventually leads to the disclosure of reality.

[3] Unni Elayaraja composed the music, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Jibu Jacob and Ranjan Abraham.

[4] Circle inspector Dinesh K. T. of the Gandhi Nagar police station is in charge of the investigation into the death of Neenu, a celebrity model and social media influencer.

Through Hari's interrogation, Dinesh learns that he was a cyber security analyst for an IT company and is currently preparing to launch his own start-up.

He informs Sajad and Reena that Hari was fired for assaulting the CEO of the company for which he worked and that he was the only one in the area when Neenu died.

The police present Krishnan Rajasekharan, a documentator who frequently appears in court to falsely testify, as a witness.

With the help of Arya and Ahammad, Hari gets Krishnan's mobile from a truck, retrieves its deleted call history, and locates him.

On Krishnan's information, a police team led by Dinesh arrives at the metro station, but Hari smartly escapes.

[6] Principal photography commenced in Kochi on 6 November 2022 with a pooja ceremony and switch-on delivered by Lokanath Behera at St. Albert's HSS, Ernakulam.

[12] Unni Elayaraja composed the film's music,[13] with lyrics written by Manu Manjith and Shafi Kollam.

"[21] S. R. Praveen of The Hindu wrote "Keeping you on the edge of the seat is not one of the stated purposes of Jayalal Divakaran's 'Kurukkan', scripted by Manoj Ramsingh.

"[23] Princy Alexander of Onmanorama wrote "Kurukkan aims to find the fox, and there's an element of surprise when the true nature of one of the characters is unravelled.

"[24] Vignesh Madhu of The New Indian Express wrote "What promised to be an intriguing character study of three like-minded men ends up as a lacklustre crime-comedy... with only a handful of comedies worth remembering.