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Irupatham Noottandu
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Wikipedia article
'Irupatham Noottandu' is a 1987 Indian Malayalam-language gangster film directed by K. Madhu, written by S. N. Swamy and produced by M. Mani. It stars Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, and Ambika. The film's music was composed by Shyam. The plot follows Sagar Alias Jacky (Mohanlal), a maverick youth who runs a gold smuggling racket for Sekharankutty (Suresh Gopi), the son of the Chief Minister of Kerala. Their relationship stains after the latter brings narcotics into the business.
The film was released on 14 May 1987. It was the highest grossing Malayalam film at that time and now enjoys a cult following in Malayalam cinema. It was remade in Kannada as 'Jackey' (1989) and in Telugu as '20va Sathabdam' (1990). Devaraj portrayed Shekarankutty in both films. The film also has a spiritual sequel, 'Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded', released in 2009 and directed by Amal Neerad with Mohanlal reprising his role. Irupatham Noottandu shattered several box office records and ran for over 175 days in theatres . Attracting point of this film is the performance of Mohanlal .
Plot
Sagar Alias Jacky
'Jacky' is a maverick youth, who turned to gold smuggler due to financial situation and inspiration from the media glorifying the Bombay underworld and its gangsters. He is partnered with Shekharankutty, who is the son of the ruling CM. The Custom officers are provided with an information about one of the cars among the rally race cars : A blue Maruti car is being used in gold smuggling. Suddenly, the car sways from the pack where Jacky and his aide Lawrence. They hide the gold in the car's spare wheel and pass the customs checking and reach Shekharankutty's house.
Jacky, Shekkarankutty and their aides: Qasim, Tony and Chanakya relaxes in a room at Chanakya's hotel. Qasim and Tony are about to smuggle gold tonight. Shekarankutty warns Qasim that there is a traitor among them. Unfortunately, Qasim turns out to be the traitor, who escapes with the gold after killing Tony. He is then caught by Jacky and is drowned to death. The next day, Qasim's body is recovered by the police and Chanakya is sent to investigate. There, he meets Ashwathy, who is a reporter for a news magazine investigating the connection between politics and crime in Kerala.
At the scene, she meets Jeevan, the current investigating officer whom she studied with. Jacky visits Kayikka, a fellow smuggler and reveals that they killed Qasim. Kayikka reveals that his eldest son Shahul has turned to selling weed. Jacky turns him away for the better where he sees his lover Jyoti's mother, who is in prison for murder. Ashwathy is drawn to Jacky's life and tries to get his attention by releasing an article stating that the CM is connected with Jacky. With his influence, Sekkarankutty bails others. He gets to know that Jacky had informed the police.
The CM demolishes Jacky's lovers place, but Jacky threatens him and demands to build those houses. Shekarankutty is angered where he kills Lawrence and then hits the car which had Jacky and his mother. Jacky's mother dies. The CM asks Shekharankutty to go to Dubai with full police protection. Jacky finds a way to sneak into the airport disguised as a pilot where he chases Shekharankutty and shoots him. Jacky gets arrested and is jailed on the day where his lover gets released.
Cast
*Mohanlal as Sagar alias "Jacky"
*Suresh Gopi as Shekharan Kutty
*Ambika as Aswathy Varma
*Santhosh as Lawrence
*Prathapachandran as Chief Minister Inchakadu Ramakrishna Pillai
*Urvashi as Jyothi
*Jagathy Sreekumar as Ashokan / Chanakyan
*Sreenath as Jeevan IPS
*Janardhanan as IG Thomas IPS
*Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Meenakshiyamma
*Sukumari as Janakiyamma, Jyothi's mother
*Adoor Bhasi as Varma
*T. P. Madhavan as CI Pothen
*K. P. A. C. Sunny as Koshy
*Jagadish as Balakrishnan
*Mamukkoya as Koya
*Jagannatha Varma as Pillai, Opposition leader
*Jose as Santhosh, Customs officer
*Vishnuprakash as George
*Kollam Ajith as Kasim
*Jayan as Tony
Production
Writer S. N. Swamy got the idea for the film from a photograph featured in an English-language Sunday magazine published from Calcutta. Swami recalled in an interview that it was the time when mafia bosses had a glorified image in the country after the national emergency period in India (19751977). That was the time when public began to learn about Bombay-based mafia leaders such as Haji Mastan, Yusuf Patel, Varadarajan Mudaliar among others. The magazine had an article on Mastan and a photograph featuring much respected actor Dilip Kumar and his wife Saira Banu touching Mastan's feet for giving 'pranma'. It was shocking for Swami, he never imagined a mafia leader would be respected as such. It inspired the plot for 'Irupatham Noottandu' and the character Sagar Alias Jacky. The lengthy climax of the film was shot in a single day. Vipindas was the cinematographer.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Shyam and the lyrics were written by Chunakkara Ramankutty.
Box office
The film was released on 14 May 1987. It performed well at the box office. It was highest grossing malayalam film of 1987 at the time of its release.
Sequel
A spiritual successor sequel titled 'Sagar Alias Jacky' directed by Amal Neerad was released on 26 March 2009.
References
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