Avatharam (2014 Malayalam film)

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Avatharam
Avatharam.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joshiy
Written byVyaasan Edavanakadu
Produced by Udaykrishna
Siby K. Thomas
Dileep K. Kunnath
Vyaasan Edavanakadu
Starring Dileep
Lakshmi Menon
Sijoy Varghese
Joy Mathew
Mithun Ramesh
Cinematography R. D. Rajasekhar
Edited byShyam Sasidharan
Music by Deepak Dev
Production
company
Four B Productions
Distributed byPopcorn Entertainments Australia
Release date
  • 1 August 2014 (2014-08-01)
Running time
165 minutes
CountryIndia
Language Malayalam

Avatharam (transl. Incarnation) is a 2014 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller action film directed by Joshiy, written by Vyaasan Edavanakadu, and produced by Udaykrishna, Siby K. Thomas, Dileep K. Kunnath, and Vyaasan Edavanakadu. It stars Dileep, Lakshmi Menon, Sijoy Varghese,Joy Mathew and Mithun Ramesh. The film was released on 1 August 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Plot

This movie is all about the life of Madhavan Mahadevan, who is a social worker from Idukki. He comes to Kochi with sister-in-law Valsala and her daughter Anjali after the death of his elder brother Customs Officer Sudhakaran. He is in Cochin to know the mystery behind his brother's death. He visits LIC office claiming the insurance amount of Sudhakaran. Manimekhala is authorised to deal with claims. From the LIC advisor, he realises that Sudhakaran's death is a well-planned murder.

He later decides to find the mystery behind the death. Meanwhile, he falls in love with Manimekhala. He discovers that CI Jeevan, who works for an underworld don Karimban John and his brother Joby is involved in the murder. Since then, Madhavan has killed everyone who killed Sudhakaran, except John. Just before the end of the story, he understands that Sudhakaran was murdered by Sri Rama Krishnamoorthy alias SRK, an influential politician with many criminal dealings. ACP Gautham Vishwanath reaches and takes Moorthy into his custody. Soon receives a call informing him of a nearby protest between John, his henchmen and his rival Jabbar's father, brother Jamal and their henchmen. When Gautham and the police fights John's and Jabbar's men, Madhavan kills Moorthy by creating a blast in Gautham's car in which Moorthy was handcuffed. John kills Jamal and later he gets killed by Jabbar's father. After completing all his revenge, Madhavan takes his now pregnant wife, Manimegala back home.

Cast

Music

The music of the film is composed by Deepak Dev with lyrics penned by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri and Harinarayan. The music album has two songs:

TrackSong TitleSinger(s)
1"Konji Konji" Shankar Mahadevan, Rimi Tomy
2"Njaan kanum" Nivas

Release

The film was released on 1 August 2014.

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