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Wikipedia article
'Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded' is a 2009 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film directed by Amal Neerad. It is the Sequel of 1987 film 'Irupatham Noottandu' and Mohanlal reprise his role as Sagar Alias Jacky. The film was written by S. N. Swamy and produced by Antony Perumbavoor under the company Aashirvad Cinemas. It also features Suman, Shobana, Bhavana, Manoj K. Jayan, Jagathy Sreekumar and Sampath Raj in supporting roles.
'Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded' released on 26 March 2009 and mainly received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and audience. The film was praised for its direction, cinematography, music, dialogues, action scenes, first half and cast performance. However, the film's plot, screenplay, second half, length and pace received criticism. The film won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Choreography for Dinesh Kumar.
Plot
Sagar Alias Jacky is a powerful underworld don and smuggler who is known for solving problems among big gangs. The Chief Minister's son-in-law, Manu is kidnapped and the police are unable to find a clue. Manu's wife Indu realises that the police have been influenced by her brother Hari who seems to know the kidnappers. Indu decides to call her best friend Sagar to help find her husband. Sagar calls his best henchmen from all over Kerala for the job. The gang then travels to Goa where Sagar's contact tells him that the kidnappers are the Rosario brothers who run the most powerful gang in the Goa underworld.
After considerable difficulties, Sagar and his gang locate the night club where Manu is held hostage and helps him to escape. This audacity does not sit well with the Rosarios who swear vengeance against Sagar. They kidnap one of Sagar's favourite gangsters and demand ransom. Sagar responds by kidnapping two of the three Rosario brothers and demands that his man be released at once. Realising that they would never be able to defeat Sagar in a heads-on battle, the Rosario brothers make a deal with Manu and Hari to deliver Sagar's current location.
The Rosarios then try to assassinate Sagar but fail. Frustrated with repeated defeats, the Rosarios then approach Sagar's former partner and underworld don, Nanthakrishna Naina, who is now Sagar's rival. Naina supplies them with a sniper, Sheikh Imran, who is also an internationally infamous assassin. Imran is asked to assassinate Manu so that the Sagar can be framed for the murder. But the Rosarios' plan backfires as Indu gives witness that Sagar was not responsible for her husband's murder.
Imran is then asked to assassinate Sagar. He manages to kill Sagar's bodyguard but Sagar himself escapes. Sagar then hunts him down and kills him. The Rosarios then kidnap Sagar's love interest Arati, a news reporter. Sagar is asked to come to a place to work out a deal. When he reaches there, he finds Arati dead. Enraged, Sagar goes to the Rosarios' club and goes on a killing spree. Then he goes to Dubai where Naina is hiding on a yacht. With the help of some gangsters he plants explosives on the yacht and blows it up. The film ends when Sagar informs Indu that death of her husband has been avenged.
Cast
* Mohanlal as Sagar Alias Jacky
* Suman as Nanthakrishna Naina
* Sampath Raj as Michael "Big" Rosario
* Manoj K Jayan as Manu
* Shobana as Indu, Manu's wife
* Bhavana as Arati Menon
* Jinu Joseph as Ferad
* Jagathy Sreekumar as Ashok Kumar
* Nedumudi Venu as Chandrashekaran, the Chief minister of Kerala
* K. B. Ganesh Kumar as Hari
* Bala as SP Hamid
* Shereveer Vakil as David Rosario
* Rahul Dev as Sheikh Imran
* Vinayakan as Style
* Anu Anand as Joseph
* Sumit Naval as Azar
* Prayaga Martin as Amina, Azar's sister
* Vanitha Krishnachandran as Azar's mother
* Sudhi Koppa as Babu, Attacker
* Pranav Mohanlal as a youngster (cameo appearance)
* Jyothirmayi as a beach dancer (cameo appearance)
* Ranjith Velayudhan as Rosario brother
Production
Trisha was approached for the female lead but she could not sign it due to her busy schedule. Later Bhavana replaced her. While writer S. N. Swami was working on the script of 'Baba Kalyani', its producer Antony Perumbavoor approached him with the idea of remaking Swami's earlier work 'Irupatham Noottandu'. Swami contemplated the possibilities for a sequel. In the final events of the first film, the villain Shekharankutty died and Sagar is in Jail. Antony asked him after two years, and Swami suggested taking only the character Sagar and making a completely new film, neither a continuation nor a sequel. In 'Irupatham Noottandu', Sagar was an introvert who rarely smiles. Now, although the character has aged he is doing something that is not socially accepted.
Music
The film's soundtrack features six songs composed by Gopi Sundar, with lyrics by Gopi Sundar, Jofy Tharakan, Santhosh Varma and Riya Joy. The soundtrack was released by Manorama Music.
Reception
Unni R Nair from Indian Express wrote that "Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded fails to deliver and leaves you wondering what it was all about. It's technical brilliance wasted on an utterly nonsensical script." Sify.com wrote that "ButSagar alias Jackyis not an unwatchable movie. For the locations and look, it can be seen. But what could have been a fearless, edgy action thriller is ultimately only a half-decent enterprise because it lacks a strong story. You can watch it only because it?s a new format but for most parts prepare to be seriously bored" Paresh C Palicha from Rediff.com Wrote that "Amal Neerad's second directorial venture afterBig Bis just an average fare, which is a disappointment considering the high expectations"
Accolades
*Kerala State Film Awards-Best Choreography - Dinesh Kumar
References
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