Vyooham (1990 film)

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Vyooham
Vyooham poster.jpg
Poster designed by Gayathri Ashokan
Directed by Sangeeth Sivan
Written by Sab John
Sangeeth Sivan
Starring Raghuvaran
Sukumaran
Parvathi
Cinematography Santosh Sivan
Edited by A. Sreekar Prasad
Music by S. P. Venkatesh
Release date
1 November 1990
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Vyooham is a 1990 Indian Malayalam-language crime film, directed by Sangeeth Sivan, starring Raghuvaran, Sukumaran, Captain Raju, Babu Antony, Urvashi, Rajan P. Dev and Parvathy Jayaram. It was the debut directorial of Sangeeth Sivan. [1]

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The lead characters were loosely based on the characters of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon, where Raghuvaran and Sukumaran played the lead roles respectively, while the plot is original.

Plot

An undercover agent, Tony Leous was hired by Kochi police to find some drug dealers. Mohan is also a policeman as part of Narcotic control. Tony raids one of Captain Raju's facilities and recovers smuggled items. This gives a heavy blow to the smugglers. At night, Babu Antony enters Tony house and kills the pet dog. The gundas also enter Sukumaran's house and tie Sukumaran and his family, wearing a mask and telling them to be careful. Raghuvaran wants to get evidence to catch the smugglers. Urvashi, sister of Sukumaran, falls in love with Tony, who seems serious always. Finally, Rajan P. Dev, who lost his son now gets a threatening call from the smugglers to help them smuggle or else his second son also may get converted to a drug addict. Rajan P. Dev tells the whole story of his killed son as a smuggler and drug addict due to the villains. A meeting place was fixed between the villain and Rajan P. Dev. At the meeting area, Raghuvaran records the talks. But the villain finds out Raghuvaran, attacks him and also kills Rajan P. Dev. In the end, at the smuggling area, Raghuvaran finishes all the villains. The film ends with Raghuvaran going in a jeep, smiling with Urvashi.

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References

  1. "Bollywood has bigger scope: Sangeeth Sivan". Business Standard. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2017.