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Indraprastham (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Indraprastham' is a 1996 Indian Malayalam-language political thriller-action film directed by Haridas, starring Mammootty, Vikram, Simran, Akshay Anand, Prakash Raj and Devan in prominent roles. The film marks the debut of Simran in Malayalam cinema.
Synopsis
Chitra Narayan (Simran), a political journalist with 'Observer Daily' in Delhi, is in love with Kiran Verma (Akshay Anand), a budding actor. She intrudes into the illegal affairs of Paul B. Issac (Devan), a Delhi-based politician. Paul B. Issac commits a murder and gets actor Kiran's face morphed onto his body in the video, whereby he traps him for the crime. Kiran is jailed under the charge of murder. Chitra gets the video tape, and she smells foul and tries to reveal the truth behind the morphing of images. She is followed by the goons of Paul. Chitra reaches Bangalore, but the goons reach there after her. She is saved by Sathish Menon (Mammootty), a software engineer. He becomes her savior. After watching the video, Sathish realizes the truth behind the crime and decides to expose Paul B. Issac. Meanwhile, Kiran is killed. Sathish's software company suffers huge setbacks, after the illegal influence of Paul, causing huge losses. Sathish openly begins his battle for justice for Chitra.
Cast
*Mammootty as Sathish Menon
*Vikram as Peter
*Simran as Chitra Narayanan
*Akshay Anand as Kiran Verma
*Prakash Raj as Mohan George
*Devan as Paul B. Issac
*M. G. Soman as K. N. Nair
*Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Manikkoth Kunjukrishna Panicker
*Nirosha as Anitha Kulkarni
*Hemant Birje as Shyam Kaushik
*Azeez as Police Commissioner
*Abu Salim as a mercenary
*Priya Raman in the item number
*Sakshi Shivanand in item number
Music
The film score is composed by Vidyasagar
Release
The film released on 23 August 1996. Despite the film being a major release during the festive season in Kerala, it could not make profit and was commercially unsuccessful.
The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as 'Delhi Darbar', with a reviewer noting "the strong cast is the main attraction".
References
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