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Directed by | Joshiy |
Written by | Sachi-Sethu |
Produced by | Santha Murali P. K. Muralidharan |
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Cinematography | Shaji Kumar |
Edited by | Ranjan Abraham |
Music by | M. Jayachandran |
Production company | Anantha Vision |
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Running time | 142 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Robinhood: Prince of Thieves, simply known as Robin Hood, is a 2009 Indian Malayalam-language action film directed by Joshiy, written by Sachi-Sethu and produced by Santha Murali and P. K. Muralidharan under Anantha Vision. The film stars Prithviraj Sukumaran in the lead role, alongside Narain, Jayasurya, Biju Menon and Bhavana. The title of the movie was inspired from the Hollywood movie (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) of the same name released in the year 1991.
Robin Hood was released on 24 September 2009 to mixed reviews from critics and became commercially successful at the box office.
Venkatesh Iyer, an entrance coaching professor, moonlights as a robber and robs ATMs of the Imperial Bank of India (IBI). Pursuant to a string of such robberies, a police squad head by ACP Harris Mohammed is put into action. Unhappy with the progress of the investigation and disturbed by the mounting pressure from the public, the Executive Director of IBI, Nandakumar Menon, appoints a sharp private investigator Alexander Felix, who along with the senior systems manager of the Bank, begins his investigation. Harris and Felix are later revealed to be prior acquaintances with some rivalry between them.
In the meantime, Abhirami, one of Venkatesh's students, falls in love with him. Venky continues to commit the robberies and triggers the customers towards mounting more pressure on the bank, triggering a series of closure of accounts. Adopting a number of novel tactics, Felix uncovers the methodology being adopted by the robber. He also uncovers Venky as the perpetrator and threatens to hand him and Roopa, the senior systems manager, whom Felix reveals as Venky's accomplice and lover, to the police, whereupon Venky reveals his story.
Venky, his real name being Sidhharth, was a former systems manager working with IBI. His father was an upright senior government official. One day, while checking the system for some faults, he found that crores of the bank's funds had been siphoned off. He reported this scam to Menon, the then GM of the Bank. Menon, who happened to be the brain behind the scam, fabricated evidence to get Sidhharth arrested. His father got an attack and was paralyzed, prompting Sidhharth to seek revenge by means of the robberies.
After learning the truth, Felix teams up with Sidhharth and Roopa. He meets Menon in isolation and tries to coerce him into accepting the blame for his actions,but is stabbed and thrown into the sea. The next day, Sidhharth is brought handcuffed by Harris to Menon's guest house, where Menon is in the process of giving funds to a minister for the forthcoming elections. Initially feeling elated, Menon is shocked when Harris accuses him of being the brain behind the series of ATM robbery and subsequent search at the guest house leads to all the machinery used by Sidhharth for the robberies being found from over there. The money being provided to the minister is also revealed as the money robbed from the ATMs.
Shocked to the core, Menon is flabbergasted. In a small flashback, it is revealed that Sidhharth had followed Felix, seen him getting stabbed and rescued him, whereupon Felix had given a statement to the police that he had found out about Menon being the brain behind the ATM robberies. Also, Sidhharth had visited Harris and offered the evidence he had against Menon about his involvement in the previous fraud for which he got Siddharth jailed. It is also revealed that Menon's Secretary, who was honest and friends with Roopa and Siddharth, had helped them switch the money and place the equipment in Menon's guest house. As Menon is being arrested and led away, he states to Siddharth that not killing him and his whole family was his only mistake, whereupon the enraged Siddharth moves to slap and attack him, but is restrained by Harris. His name having been cleared, Sidhharth starts a new life with Roopa and Felix meets them a few months later, wherein the three begin to have a good party, and the fim ends.
Music: M. Jayachandran; lyrics: Kaithapram Damodaran
Paresh C Palicha of Rediff gave 2/5 stars and wrote "Robinhood falls short of expectations and will depend on Prithviraj's fans to make it a success." [1]
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