Cover Story (2000 film)

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Cover Story
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Directed by G. S. Vijayan
Written by B. Unnikrishnan
Produced by Menaka
Starring Suresh Gopi
Biju Menon
Tabu
Nedumudi Venu
CinematographyVenugopal
Edited by A. Sreekar Prasad
Music by Sharreth
Production
company
Distributed byCC Cine Vision
Release date
  • 18 August 2000 (2000-08-18)
Running time
131 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Cover Story is a 2000 Indian Malayalam-language revenge action thriller film directed by G. S. Vijayan, written by B. Unnikrishnan and produced by Menaka under the production banner Revathy Kalamandhir. Starring Suresh Gopi, Biju Menon, Tabu and Siddique. The film has soundtrack composed by Sharreth. [1]

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Plot

Jasmine Khan is a computer engineer, who wears contact lens due to vision problems. She meets her next-door neighbour Chandrashekar, a retired judge with a haunted past. The two become friends. Jasmine meets Vijay, a news reporter and the executive director of True Vision who is on a mission to eliminate corruption through Media Channel. During a Christmas, Chandrashekar is killed by a mysterious man, who is seen but not recognized by Jasmine, as she was not wearing contact lenses at that time.

ACP Anand suspects Jasmine as retired DGP R.V. Thampuran was killed in her presence in a shopping mall, but is unable to prove due to Vijay's (Anand's college senior and close friend) interference and lack of evidence. The investigation for the true killer begins where Anand tries to find the real killer. Soon, Jasmine finds the killer as Vijay. What is Vijay's true motives behind the killings forms the rest of the plot. [2] [3]

Cast

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack contains 4 songs, all composed by Sharreth. with lyrics by Gireesh Puthenchery.

No.TitleSinger(s)
1"Ini Maananathum" (F) K. S. Chitra, Sharreth
2"Ini Maananathum" (M) M. G. Sreekumar, Sharreth
3"Manjilpookkum"K. S. Chitra, Sreenivas
4"Yaamangal"K. S. Chitra, M. G. Sreekumar

Reception

A critic from indiainfo.com wrote that "If you are looking for fiery speeches, action packed fights, innovative camera angles or great music then you can give this film a skip". [4] A critic from Sify wrote that "Despite good performances by most of the artists, the plot or rather the treatment seems to be rather unconvincing". [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Bollywood Beauties Who Sizzled in Dance Numbers in Malayalam Films!". 10 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Cover Story". Revathy Kalamandhir. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017.
  3. ↑ Rajitha (31 March 2001). "Not quite a cover-up!". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 4 June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Indiainfo: Malayalam: Movie Review - Cover Story". movies.indiainfo.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2001. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040131073211/http://sify.com/movies/malayalam/review.php?id=6007625&ctid=5&cid=2428 [ bare URL ]


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