Pazhassi Raja (2009)

Director:

T. Hariharan

Writer:

M.T. Vasudevan Nair (writer)

Release Date:

16 October 2009 (India)

Genre:

Action | Drama | History | Thriller | War

Plot Keywords:

King | British Colonial | Colony | Kingdom | Freedom Fight

Cast

Mammootty	...	Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja
Sarath Kumar	...	Edachena Kunkan Nair
Padmapriya	...	Neeli
Manoj K. Jayan	...	Thalakkal Chanthu
Harry Key	...	Asst. Collector Thomas Baber
Captain Raju	...	Unnimootha
Kanika	...	Kaitheri Makkom
Thilakan	...	Kurumbanattu Rajavu
Saiju Kurup
Jagathi Sreekumar	...	Kandan Menon
Suresh Krishna	...	Kaitheri Ambu
Nedumudi Venu	...	Mooppan
Saikumar
Seetha
Murali Mohan	...	Chirakkal Thampuran

Country:

India

Language:

Malayalam | Tamil | Hindi | English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Kannur, Kerala, India

Trivia:

The most costliest movie ever made in Malayalam. The total budget was Rs 270 million. Apart from this, most of the scenes were re shot for SYNC SOUND after Academy Award winner Resul Pookutty joined the project. This increased the production cost by 50 million making a total of 32 million.

Best of Malayalam Cinema in a Decade

I am an ardent watcher of movies and never thought a producer will spent such amount of the limited theaters compared to other south Indian languages. I was pleasantly surprised to see Gokulam Gopalan made such an effort. I too believed that this was an over-hyped movie due to the budget. But having seen the movie I must say I am impressed with it. About the story part, everyone knows it, so it was the presentation that caught my attention. More than 3 hours, I thought there would have been boring minutes in-between. But there were none. Makers of Jodha Akbar please note this, you need not have a budget of Ten million to make a movie visually splendid and for almost a similar length movie, I must say I was bored for some part of Jodha Akbar. What makes the film click is the acting. Mammootty in a restrained manner and Sarathkumar wowed every one. Manoj K Jayan and Padmapriya also gave one of their best performances. I am an avid watcher of Hollywood films, so when I say action in this film is good it is not an exaggeration. Sure it has wired stunts but the action scenes are intense enough. Music was a let down, but sound design by Rasool Pookkutty was not. This man is surely going to go places. What made the action scenes seem fabulous was his hard work. MTV is a master story teller and he proved this once again. I stopped short from giving full marks because of the under par casting of foreign actors. They seemed out of place and not one of them convinced viewers by their acting that they are from that century while the rest of the cast was superb. Last but not the least, Hariharan, I never thought he would pull it off, hats off. Cinematography and editing is fabulous as well. Overall this is the most well made Malayalam film till now if you delete the foreign acting bit. Not even a single Malayalam movie fan should miss it.