Alibhabha

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Alibhabha
Alibhabha Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Neelan K. Sekar
Written by Neelan K. Sekar
Produced by Pattiyal Sekhar
Starring Kreshna
Prakash Raj
Janani
Biju Menon
Thilakan
Azhagam Perumal
CinematographyDinesh Kumar
Edited by V. T. Vijayan
Music by Vidyasagar
Production
company
Talking Times Pvt.Ltd
Release date
  • 5 September 2008 (2008-09-05)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Alibhabha is a 2008 Tamil thriller film directed by Neelan K. Sekar and produced by Pattiyal Sekhar. The film stars the latter's son Kreshna along with Prakash Raj and Janani in lead roles while Biju Menon, Thilakan, and Azhagam Perumal play supporting roles. Vidyasagar scored the music for the film while V. T. Vijayan handled the editing and Dinesh Kumar worked the cinematography. The film was released on 5 September 2008.

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Plot

The city is being shaken by many heart-stopping crimes taking place at different places. Young women are being molested and killed with alarming frequency. Velu (Kreshna) helps his father Subramaniam (Prakash Raj) in stealing. Being seasoned thieves, they rob everything right from pins to cars. A spate of young women are murdered, and these developments rock the city. Thiagarajan (Azhagam Perumal), a tough cop, investigates the case. However, differences of opinions crop between the Police Commissioner (Biju Menon) and Thiagarajan. One day, Velu saves the commissioner from a meeting in order to steal the commissioner's car's audio player, and gets acquainted with him. Velu then begins to fall for Janani (Janani), who works in a bank. One day, when Velu withdraws money, he is shocked to find the balance amount to be Rs. 5 Lakhs. It suddenly swells to Rs. 30 Lakhs and then Rs. 70 Lakhs. That is when Subramaniam realizes that this is no mere coincidence. Someone was smartly using them as a pawn to cover up for other more serious activities. They were being used as the 'third man', a pretty common term in criminal parlance. Before they realize, all of them are caught in the web that was laid out. Who laid it out, how and why and do they eventually come out of it forms Alibaba. Subramaniam comes to Velu's rescue and manages to find the reason behind it. When the family begins to find out the reason behind this act, it results in bloodshed and gore, eventually ending up in Velu coming across the killers of young women in the city.

Cast

Soundtrack

Alibhabha
Soundtrack album by
Released22 August 2008
Recorded Varsha Vallaki Studios
Genre Feature film Soundtrack
Length19:34
Language Tamil
Producer Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Jeyam Kondaan
(2008)
Alibhabha
(2008)
Raman Thediya Seethai
(2008)

The music and background score is composed by Vidyasagar, with lyrics written by P. Vijay, Yugabharathi and Jayantha. [1]

Critical reception

Sify wrote "On the whole Neelan definitely has the stuff in him, for a first timer his screenplay and narration is impressive, but towards the end goes overboard." [2] Behindwoods wrote "Overall, Alibaba is a movie that relies on the suspense element to carry it through and the director has understood this very well, he is on the button." [3]

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  2. "Alibaba". Sify . Archived from the original on 15 March 2018.
  3. "ALIBABA MOVIE REVIEW - Behindwoods.com - Alibaba Movie Review Trailer Gallery Alibaba Movie Images Stills Tamil Actor Krishna Prakash Raj Actress Janani Direction Neelam K Sekar Direction Vishnuvardhan Music Vidyasagar Manobala Pattiyal Sekhar Radha Ravi Times Movies Pvt Ltd Vishnuvardhan stills picture image gallery". www.behindwoods.com.