Ekalavyan (film)

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Ekalavyan
Movie Poster
Directed byShaji Kailas
Written byRenji Panicker
Produced byP. V. Gangadharan
StarringSuresh Gopi
CinematographyRavi K. Chandran
Edited byL. Bhoominathan
Music byRajamani
Production
company
Grahalakshmi Productions
Distributed byKalpaka Release
Release date
1993
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Ekalavyan is a 1993 Indian

Vijayaraghavan, Ganesh Kumar, Janardhanan, Madhu, Maathu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Kuthiravattam Pappu and Devan.[1][2]

Ekalavyan became a blockbuster and ran for 200 days in theatres. With consecutive box office hits from The News, Thalastaanam, Mafia and Ekalavyan, Suresh Gopi was catapulted to the status of a matinée idol. After the success of the 1994 blockbuster Commissioner in Andhra Pradesh, the film was released in Telugu as CBI Officer and became a commercial success. The film was remade in Hindi as Singham Returns.[3][4]

Plot

Swami Amoorthananda, a psychotic holy

narcotics mafia in Kerala. He also has several connections within political circles and is also a good orator
, where he draws many devotees from abroad and turns them into addicts.

A series of murders at

CI
Sharath Chandran, Madhavan's aggressive way of investigation leads him to Amoorthananda's ashram, which creates a panic in the state.

Amoorthananda decides to eliminate Madhavan and also plans to topple Sreedharan by appointing his aide Velayudhan as the new CM. Upon the orders from Amoorthananda, Mahesh Nair, a notorious terrorist, arrives in Kerala and kills Sharath Chandran. An enraged Madhavan raids the ashram and botches Amoorthananda's plot to cause a series of

communal riots
.

Cast

Production

Filming

The film was shot mostly around

Trivandrum and Kovalam and a large part was also shot in Kozhikode. The film was produced by P. V. Gangadharan under Grihalakshmi Productions. The cinematography was handled by Ravi K. Chandran
and editing by L. Bhoominathan. Rajamani composed the musical score, while Boban was the art director.

Casting

Initially, Shaji Kailas and Renji Panicker had planned to sign Mammootty in the lead role and Suresh Gopi as the second lead role. After hearing the script, Mammootty told Shaji Kailas that he was not impressed with the dialogues. Due to this, Shaji Kailas decided to start the project with Suresh Gopi in the lead and the originally planned role for Suresh Gopi was later given to Siddique.[5][6]

Box office

Ekalavyan became a commercial success and ran for 200 days in theatres. The film shattered many collection records and elevated Suresh Gopi to the status of the matinée idol and the second action superstar in Malayalam cinema after Jayan. It also helped him to fetch more action-oriented roles.[7] After the success of the original version, along with Telugu and Tamil versions of Commissioner, Ekalavyan, which was actually released before Commissioner, was released in Telugu and Tamil as CBI Officer. The film had earned Suresh Gopi the title of Supreme Star in Andhra Pradesh.[8]

Legacy

Ekalavyan was the second in a trilogy of films that established Suresh Gopi as the new superstar in the Malayalam cinema, the other two being Thalastaanam and Mafia. Suresh Gopi reprised his role of Madhavan IPS in 1995 film The King starring Mammootty and also written and directed by Shaji Kailas and Renji Panicker.

Remake

The film was remade in Hindi as Singham Returns and was directed by Rohit Shetty.[9]

References

  1. ^ "10 Suresh Gopi films to watch before you die". The Times of India. 27 November 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  2. ^ "They too stirred up a hornet's nest: Pre-social media Malayalam films that sparked controversy". The Indian Express. 18 February 2018. Archived from the original on 6 March 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Rohit Shetty gets nostalgic about Singham". Telangana Today. IANS. 22 July 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  4. ^ "We list down 5 Bollywood movies which found their inspiration down south".
  5. ^ "ചമ്പക്കുളം തച്ചൻ ഏകലവ്യൻ എന്നീ ..." FilmBeat.
  6. ^ "Super hit films that were rejected by Mammootty". OnLookers.
  7. ^ "Five Malayalam movies rejected by Mammootty which turned out to be blockbusters". International Business Times. 25 July 2018.
  8. ^ "Here is how Suresh Gopi became the 'Supreme Star' of Telugu cinema". Malayala Manorama. 28 June 2020.
  9. ^ "We list down 5 Bollywood movies which found their inspiration down south".

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