Lal Jose has been the director who has been careful enough to select the best of the songs for his films. In his career that stretches more than a decade, every film of his was musical hits. Starting from Oru Maravathoor Kanavu to the latest Classmates, this long time assistant of Kamal has kept the tradition of being with the best musically. His latest Arabikatha also is a stunner musically with a couple of melodies that may definitely find place in the charts. Lal Jose is introducing a new music director Biji Bal who shows that he has grown enough to become a contender for the biggies in the circuit, even with his debut film. The Lyricist Anil Pachooran also delivers some of the best heard lyrics in recent times.

It is natural for people, especially Malayalees to leave their homeland in search of a better life and a bright future for their children. In Arabikatha, the director tackles the subject of an intense communist party member of the state living on the fringes of an alien society which does not recognize his existence. The film has Sreenivasan playing Cuba Mukundan, who is an ardent fan of Fidel Castro and loves his party than anything. He and his father 'Society' Raghavan who run a tea shop, are the torch bearers of the party at Chammanur in Kannur district. Being the local secretary of communist party, he criticizes and resists everything that is forbidden by the party texts. And so he is against cola, bourgouisie, bribery, computers and even don't believe in gods as communists originally don't. As Marx somewhere suggested that he rethought many times about his decision to enter into marriage, Mukundan also don't like to enter into matrimony. But all in the party were not like Mukundan. People like Karunan, a party leader wants to take over the party in the village from Mukundan, for his own selfish reasons.

The film opens with the lathy charge on ‘Cuba’ Mukundan and his party men, who are making an agitation against the leather factory in the village, set up by Kunjunni (Jagathy Sreekumar) a rich NRI. The party resists the factory due to environmental reasons and the industrial pollution that it creates. But Karunan has a secret deal with Kunjunni, to somehow avoid the agitation. But soon the court rules to close down the leather factory. Kunjunni now agitated, plans with Karunan to frame Mukundan’s father Society Ragahvan on a scandal related with society’s expenditure. They succeed in that, when Raghavan is at hospital with a fatal stroke. 'Cuba' Mukundan believes the cooked up scandal story and suspends his father from the party for the involvement, but soon the old man passes away. Now Mukundan decides to repay the 'misappropriate' amount involved and take leave from the party. The district committee suggests Mukundan to go to gulf so that he can make the big amount of 20 lakh to repay, within a short time.