Narasimham

2000 2h 55m ML

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7.3

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★7.3TMDB · 37

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Synopsis

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Poovalli Induchoodan (Mohanlal) is sentenced for six years prison life for murdering his classmate. Induchoodan, the only son of Justice Maranchery Karunakara Menon (Thilakan) was framed in the case by Manapally Madhavan Nambiar (Narayanan Nair) and his crony DYSP Sankaranarayanan (Bheeman Raghu) to take revenge on idealist judge Menon who had earlier given jail sentence to Manapally in a corruption case. The story begins with Induchoodan released and his father & mother coming to stay with him.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Mohanlal
Poovalli Induchoodan
Thilakan
Maranchery Karunakara Menon
N F Varghese
Manappally Pavithran
Jagathy Sreekumar
Poovalli Chandrabhanu
Kanaka
Indulekha
Mammootty
Adv. Nandagopal Marar
Kalabhavan Mani
Bharathan
Maniyanpilla Raju
C.I Habeeb

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Shaji Kailas
Writers: Ranjith
Languages: Malayalam
Countries: India

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 175 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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MONEY

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Shot for just $0.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $5M — a 10.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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26 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Shaji Kailas, shot by Sanjeev Shankar. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor L. Bhoominathan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Mohanlal and Thilakan and N F Varghese carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0273870 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Shaji Kailas directs. Sanjeev Shankar behind the camera. L. Bhoominathan cuts. A long sit — settle in. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in India. Dialogue in Malayalam.

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1Clocks in at 175 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
2Shot for just $0.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Grossed $5M — a 10.1× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
426 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
5Directed by Shaji Kailas, shot by Sanjeev Shankar. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Editor L. Bhoominathan shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Mohanlal and Thilakan and N F Varghese carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt0273870 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 37 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
10Classified under 8 themes, including "police", "fight", "revenge", "murder".