Director: I.V. Sasi; Writer: T. Damodaran; Producer: Mohammed Mannil; Cinematographer: V. Jayaram; Editor: K. Narayanan; Cast: Mammootty, Madhu, K.P. Ummar, Suresh Gopi, Bahadur, Parvathy, Jagannath Varma, Janardhanan, T.G. Ravi, Seema, Balan K. Nair, Tom Alter, Rohini, Bhaskaran, Urvashi
Duration: 02:31:55; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 25.463; Saturation: 0.125; Lightness: 0.183; Volume: 0.367; Cuts per Minute: 17.304
Summary: Designed as an action melodrama blockbuster
to follow the successful Eenadu (1982). The
film addresses the 1921 Moplah rebellion when
poor peasants, mostly Muslim, rose against the
landowning aristocrats, mostly Hindu, while
the British operated their characteristic divideand-
rule policy after the defeat of Tipu Sultan.
The historical and political contexts of the
rising are treated in terms of a catalogue of
cartoon-like cliches and stirring nationalist
speeches. The meat of the movie is in the
rapes, battles and other nastiness perpetrated
upon the innocent. The film-makers explicitly
stated their wish not to support nor to
contradict any possible interpretation of the
historical events to which they allude.
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