Narasimham - Malayalam - DVD

Narasimham Indian Malayalam action drama film directed by Shaji Kailas and written by Ranjith. It stars Mohanlal in the lead role, along with Thilakan, N. F. Varghese, Aishwarya, Kanaka, Jagathi Sreekumar, and Bharathi Vishnuvardhan in other pivotal roles. The film was the first production of Aashirvad Cinemas, owned by AntonyPerumbavoor. Poovalli Induchoodan (Mohanlal) is sentenced to six years prison life for murdering his classmate. Induchoodan, the only son of Justice Maranchery Karunakara Menon (Thilakan) was framed in the case by the state minister, Manapally Madhavan Nambiar (Narayanan Nair) and his crony DYSP Sankaranarayanan (Bheeman Raghu) to take revenge on idealist judge Menon who had earlier given jail sentence to Manapally in a corruption case. Induchoodan, who had achieved top rank in Indian Civil Service loses the post and Manapally Sudheeran (Saikumar), Manappallys younger son enters the list of civil service trainees. It is later revealed that Ramakrishnan (E A Rajendran) the son of Moopil Nair (Narendra Prasad) was the real killer. Six years passes by and Manapally Madhavan Nambiar, now a former state minister, is dead and Induchoodan, who is all rage at the gross injustice meted out to him - thus destroying his promising life, is released from prison. Induchoodan thwarts Manapally Pavithran (N F Varghese), Manappallys elder son from performing the funeral rituals of his father at Bharathapuzha. Many confrontations between Induchoodan and Manapallys henchmen follow. Upon release, the film created history in commercial Malayalam cinema, it grossed 220 million (US$3.3 million) at the box office against a budget of 20 million (US$300,000), making it the highest grosser of the year, and the highest grossing Malayalam film ever, at that time. The film ran for more than 200 days in theatres.The film was released on 26 January 2000, and after 15 years it was re-released under the name Narasimham Returns in 2014, which premiered in Dubai. Later, it was re-released in Kerala at several occasions in time.