Sakhavu (2017 film)

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Sakhavu
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Sidhartha Siva
Written by Sidhartha Siva
Produced by B. Rakesh
Starring Nivin Pauly
Aishwarya Rajesh
Aparna Gopinath
Cinematography George C. Williams
Music by Prashant Pillai
Production
company
Universal Cinema
Distributed byAnto Joseph Film Company & Tricolor Entertainment
Release date
  • 15 April 2017 (2017-04-15) [1]
Running time
164 minutes
CountryIndia
Language Malayalam

Sakhavu (transl. Comrade) is a 2017 Indian Malayalam-language political drama film written and directed by Sidhartha Siva. It stars Nivin Pauly in dual roles, as a cunning student political leader (Krishnakumar) and a senior social activist and comrade (Sakhavu Krishnan) who fights for his left-wing ideals. Aishwarya Rajesh plays the heroine. The film was released on 14 April 2017 during Vishu holiday. [1]

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Plot

Krishnakumar aka Kichu is a ruthless youth wing's leader at a district level of his political party. He plans to get into a better position at his SFK party by destroying the political career of other competitors in his party. He arranges people to beat up his competitor, even though he is Kichu's close friend.

He gets a call from Kuriachan who is a leader of his political party. He tells Kichu to go to hospital and donate blood for a comrade as Kichu has the rare blood group O Negative. Kichu was forced to go to hospital but he tells his friend Mahesh that he will get the hell out of there without wasting his time. He makes a lot of mess at hospital and tells the acquaintance of the recipient to get food for him. Kichu was thinking that the recipient was a less known comrade but he was stunned by seeing even the chief minister paying a visit to see the wounded recipient. Now Kichu is eager to know about this so-called comrade and asks Prabhakaran (an acquaintance of comrade) about him.

Prabhakaran starts to tell the story of comrade Krishnan, the patient. Krishnan was a party member who was sent to Peerumedu by party's Kottayam district committee to develop their party's influence there. Krishnan raised voice against the poor wage giving to workers at tea estate but the manager of the estate was not interested in raising the wage. Krishnan led a strike with all the workers and the tea factory was forced to raise the wage. Krishnan's next move was against a Brahmin landlord. The landlord was giving labour to Tamil people for poor wage instead of malayalees. Krishnan and his party talked to the landlord but he didn't negotiate. And the landlord didn't do the cultivation that year. Krishnan and workers started cultivating in the landlord's land and produced a good yield. They were ready to give the yield to the landlord at a condition that he should give them the proper wage. He was forced to accept.

Krishnan gave word to comrade Janaki's family that he would marry her. They got married after some events. After some years Krishnan had a stroke and got into partial paralysis. Then he learned that the old factory where they did their first strike was closed and workers are in poverty. Krishnan visited a rich man who had got many helps from him and asked him if he can buy that estate and start the factory. He accepted it at a request that Krishnan should be one among in the governing body of the factory. Krishnan accepted this and later learned that a young man Tony had captured some of the land in the estate. Krishnan ordered him to get his resort closed. Tony stabbed Krishnan at night to retain his resort and that's the story of Krishnan.

Kichu now learns that the way he is living is not the way a comrade should live. Krishnan's surgery was successful and all of them in the hospital was happy. Kichu hesitated to see Krishnan's face as he had cherished his personality in his heart. Kichu goes to peerumedu with his youth wing comrades and beats up Tony who stabbed Krishnan and he proclaims that Krishnan's legacy will be continued through them.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Prashant Pillai. [2]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Aarariro" Sidhartha Siva Preeti Pillai1:24
2."Lokam Ennum"Anwar Ali Bijibal, Niranj Suresh3:38
3."Madhumatiye" Shabareesh Varma Shreekumar Vakkiyil, Preeti Pillai3:32
4."Theyyum Thindaka" Sooraj Kurup Shreekumar Vakkiyil, Sreerag Saji4:34
5."Udhichuyarnne"Santhosh Varma Sithara Krishnakumar, Vaikom Vijayalakshmi 3:30
Total length:16:38

Reception

A critic from The Times of India wrote that "The film has Nivin Pauly and his smart dialogues to entertain you, on and off. It’s worth your money, but be prepared to bear quite a few stretched moments of storytelling as well". [3] A critic from The Indian Express wrote that "Nivin’s performances in three different avatars are the highlight of the Sakhavu. The comedy is a part of the natural course of the story, where every character in the film manages to draw a few laughs". [4]

Box office

The film collected ₹2.4 crore (US$290,000) on day-1 in Kerala box office. [5] The film collected ₹9.95 lakhs from US box office and ₹6.94 lakhs from UK box office in its two weekends. [6] The film grossed $196,175 from UAE box office in its two weekends. [7] The Movie was a hit at the box office.

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