Commissioner (film)
Commissioner | |
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Ranji Panicker | |
Produced by | M. Mani |
Starring | Suresh Gopi Ratheesh Shobana Vijayaraghavan M. G. Soman Rajan P. Dev K. B. Ganesh Kumar N. F. Varghese Karamana Janardanan Nair Maniyanpilla Raju |
Cinematography | Dinesh Baboo |
Edited by | L. Bhoominathan |
Music by | Rajamani |
Production company | Sunitha Productions |
Distributed by | Aroma Release |
Release date | 14 April 1994 |
Running time | 175 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Commissioner is a 1994 Indian
Commissioner became the highest grossing Malayalam film of 1994, which earned Suresh Gopi the status of an Action Superstar. It is a cult film among Malayali audiences, with several dialogues becoming very famous and remaining so even decades later.[1] The Telugu dubbed version Police Commissioner was also a major commercial success.
The sequel titled
Plot
Bharathchandran is an honest and brash
Mohan Thomas is a
Bharathchandran is not only assigned to investigate the homicide, but also posted as the police commissioner of
With this vital clue, Bharathchandran unearths more dirt on Mohan Thomas & Co. Further, Bharathchandran arrests Srilatha Varma, Mohan's legal advisor and mistress, but is brutally murdered in a hotel elevator by Wilfred Vincent Baston, a Goa-based hitman, who had also murdered Justice Mahendran. Bharathchandran is successful in nabbing Antony Ignatius Pimento, Wilfred's right-hand man, and zeroes in on Wilfred. Bharathchandran stages a coup by arresting both Rajan Felix and Menon, who are brutally tortured to reveal details on their alliance with Mohan Thomas and also sheds light on their agenda. Iqbal is killed brutally in an attempt to arrest Wilfred. This enrages Bharathchandran, who later brutally kills Wilfred and Mohan Thomas at an outhouse by torching the whole house, thus taking the law into his own hands.
Cast
- City Police Commissioner Bharathchandran IPS
- MP
- Shobhana as Adv.Indhu Kurup
- ASPPrasad IPS
- ASPMuhammad Iqbal IPS
- IGBalachandran Nair IPS
- IG Rajan Felix IPS, State IBChief
- Bheeman Raghu as Wilfred Vincent Bastin
- AIGHarikrishnan Menon IPS
- Baiju as Sunny Thomas
- Karamana Janardanan Nair as Justice Mahendran
- Chithra as Advocate Sreelatha Varma
- Ravi Vallathol as K.M. Varghese, Central Minister
- Ragini as Achamma Varghese
- ConstableGopinathan
- Augustine as Vattappara Peethambaran
- Priyanka Anoop as Susheela, Gopi's wife
- Home Minister of Kerala
- Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair as Kunjurama Kurup
- SPBobby IPS
- K.P.A.C. Sunnyas Kunju Moideen Sahib
- Sadiqas Sugunan
- Ranji Panickeras Journalist Gopakumar
- Biju Pappan as Goonda
- T.S.Krishnan as Henchman
Production
Most of the film was shot extensively in and around Kozhikode and its outskirts. Most of the scenes were shot in the same locations as that of Ekalavyan (1993).[3]
Release
Commissioner was released on April 1994 coinciding the
Reception
The film became the highest grossing Malayalam film of 1994. Due to the box office success, the film was soon dubbed into Tamil and Telugu as well. Both these versions went on to become top grosser to the surprise of their distributors. The Telugu version titled Police Commissioner was the most successful among the two. It ran successfully for more than 365 days in theaters across Andhra Pradesh. The Telugu version became a success even in Karnataka.[7][8]
Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen in the book Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema wrote "Suresh Gopi’s performance, embodying the fascist machismo of the honest and committed police officer, made him a Malayalam superstar."[9]
Legacy and Sequels
The characters Bharathchandran IPS and Mohan Thomas portrayed by
References
- ^ "10 Suresh Gopi films to watch before you die". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "Shocking ! Great Mollywood films that flopped at the box - office". The Times of India.
- ^ കമ്മീഷണർ & ഏകലവ്യൻ സിനിമ ലൊക്കേഷൻ | Commissioner and Eakalavyan film location | Suresh Gopi hit film, retrieved 16 February 2023
- ^ Anjana George (29 July 2020). "Renji Panicker: I never named Joseph Alex in The King; it was he who guided me while writing". The Times of India.
- ^ Nirmal Narayanan (8 February 2021). "This Mollywood director reshaped masculinity of Mohanlal, Mammootty, and Suresh Gopi: HBD Shaji Kailas". International Business Times.
- ^ "Dileep's stroke of luck". Rediff.com. 1 November 2003.
- ^ Anjana George (29 July 2020). "Renji Panicker: I never named Joseph Alex in The King; it was he who guided me while writing". The Times of India.
- ^ "Here is how Suresh Gopi became the 'Supreme Star' of Telugu cinema". Malayala Manorama. 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Shocking ! Great Mollywood films that flopped at the box - office". The Times of India.
External links
- Commissioner at IMDb