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Cobra is a 2012 Malayalam film directed by Lal, starring himself and Mammootty  in the lead roles. The film is a comedy-action-thriller. The songs were composed by Alex Paul, and background score by Deepak Dev. Cobra is the short form of Co-brothers (Kottayam Brothers). As the name suggests it tells the story of two brothers Raja (Mammootty) and Kari (Lal). Saleemkumar and Manian pillai raju play the roles of their security.

Cobra lives only in places that start with Co. After Connaught Place, New Delhi, they shift to Kothamangalam. They are looking for brides for them with only one condition that they should be sisters. They find an alliance at Kothamangalam and their marriage gets fixed. But on the day of marriage, one of the brides gets late for marriage. Thinking that she eloped, Raja creates a fuzz there and the marriage gets cancelled. To escape from humiliation, they shift to Kottayam.

At Kottayam, they meets Samuel (Lalu Alex) who is looking for prospective buyers for his house. He needs money for the education of his daughters, both of which are doing medical studies else where. While Cobras are negotiating the deal, they see the picture of the two girls and plans a marriage with them. Samuel wants to hide the news of selling his house from his daughters. So he asks Cobras to hide this news for another 6 months until their studies are over. Cobras say that they will do registration only after 6 months and during that period they will stay at Samuel's house as tenants.

Meanwhile, Isaac (Babu Antony) and his brother is trying to forcefully take Samuel's house and his hospital. Isaac tries to humiliate Cobras on the day of inauguration of his new physical fitness center. Samuel and Isaac gets into a verbal fight and fixes a boxing match the next weekend with a deal that whoever wins the match will get the hospital. Isaac finds out that Raja has a twin brother named Shivadas who looks exactly like him. Isaac blackmails Raja saying that if he does not withdraw from the match, he will bring his twin brother to Kari. Raja thinks that it will break Kari's heart and so he decides to back out from the fight. But Kari and Samuel decides to carry on with the match.

For the match, Raja joins them. Even during the match Isaac tries to blackmail Raja showing him Shivadas standing at a distance view from the venue. Initially Raja does not fight back and gets badly beaten. Then Kari comes to the ring and he gets badly beaten too. Seeing Kari getting beaten up, Raja decides to fight back and defeats Isaac and his brother. Meanwhile, seeing the love between Raja and Kari, Shivadas leaves the scene without anyone noticing.

Reviews

The film was released on 12 April 2012 and got mixed reviews. [2]

"Malayalam Net" gave a good rating of 2.75/5 and said that "Cobra" is a genuine entertainer for this vacation season.[3].

"Filmglitz" gave a positive review stating that "This ‘Cobra’ is not venomous as expected, but will definitely make you laugh during this festive season provided you keep the brain off for sometime ! Watch it, just for a laugh !". [4].

"MetroMatinee" rated the film as a good entertainer, and said that "COBRA is more than reason for celebration for fans of Megastar Mammootty. For the rest of us who would like to have a bit more than star charisma from his films, Lal has plenty to offer as well.It tells a simple story in a surprisingly imposing manner". [5]

"Theater Balcony" gave a rating of 3/5 stars,explaining that "Cobra" is a fine mix of some good comedy, good direction, simple story, romance, fine action and some good emotional scene. Also they sum up,Cobra might end up as a good entertaining movie to celebrate the festival.[6] "Nowrunning" gave a rating of 2/5 stars, and said that "When you sense that the film you are about to see, plans to tell you a story of twin brothers separated at birth, the warning bell goes off. Lal's latest cinematic outing 'Cobra' is a misadventure of two brothers who have been born together, but whom nobody believes to be twins, since one happens to be fair and the other a bit too dark."

Sify.com's Moviebuzz rated the movie "average"[7], saying it is "a botched up version of the conventional recipes".

Rediff.com rated 2/5 stars,[8] saying that "Cobra offers nothing much to the discerning viewer and just cashes in on the actors' star image".