Hero (2012 film)

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Hero
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Diphan
Written by
Produced by	G.P. Vijayakumar
Starring	Prithviraj Sukumaran Yami Gautam Srikanth Krishnamachari Anoop Menon Bala Kumar Thalaivasal Vijay
Narrated by	Anoop Menon
Cinematography	Bharani K Dharan
Edited by	Samjith Muhammad
Music by	Gopi Sunder
Production company	Seven Arts International
Distributed by	Seven Arts International Release
Release date	25 May 2012 (2012-05-25) (India) [1]
Running time	163 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Hero is a 2012 Indian Malayalam-language action-comedy thriller drama film directed by Diphan.^[2] It stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Srikanth Krishnamachari, Yami Gautam, and Anoop Menon in lead roles.^[3][4] The film is produced by G.P. Vijayakumar. The soundtrack is scored by Gopi Sunder along with lyrics by Anil Panachooran.

Plot[]

Dharmarajan master is a famous stunt master who worked in many films and had a lot of students. He was out from the field for a long time. Dharmarajan master needs some money for his daughter's marriage. So he visits one of his old students Aadhityan, who is one of the famous and top rated Directors in the film industry. Aadhityan gives a chance to master. Master seeks help from his several students to assist him with the job, but no one helps him. He visits Tarzan Antony who was his favorite student who left him because of some issues. Tarzan agrees and joins the set. There he meets the hero of the film Premanand, who is the son of a Home Minister and Heroine Gowri Menon, who is one of the top actresses in the industry. Premanand is like a sinking ship and needs a hit, so he joins his friend Aadhityan for the movie. Meanwhile, Premanand likes Gowri and wants to marry her. He tries to impress her in several ways but she ignores him. Tarzan's dedication to his works and amazing stunts impresses Gowri. The movie gets released and it becomes a grand hit. The audience who don't know the actual hero behind the screen appreciates Premanand for the action sequences while Gowri, Aadhityan and the whole crew appreciates Tarzan for his work. Gowri and Tarzan fall in love with each other. Premanand decides to destroy Tarzan who is a hindrance between him and Gowri. At that time Aadhityan announces his next project with the same cast and crew. Premanand wants to remove Tarzan from the project, but Aadhityan in turn removes Premanand from the movie and make Tarzan the hero of the movie. This angers Premanand and he takes revenge by plotting to kill Tarzan, but ends up killing Tarzan's father. Aadhityan tells Tarzan to let matters lie low for a while before he takes his revenge. Once the shooting for the film gets over, Tarzan goes to Premanand and Gowri's brother to take revenge for killing his father and when he returns it is shown that the audience has accepted Tarzan as the new Hero and Tarzan and Gowri are more than happy to openly accept their relation.

Cast[]

• Prithviraj Sukumaran as “Tarzan” Antony
• Srikanth Krishnamachari as Premanand (voice dubbed by Mithun Ramesh)
• Yami Gautam^[5] as Gowri Menon
• Thalaivasal Vijay as Dharmarajan Master (voice dubbed by Shobi Thilakan)
• Anoop Menon as Aadhityan
• Nedumudi Venu as Thankachan, Antony's father
• Bala Kumar as Udayanand
• Tini Tom as Suni
• Anil Murali as Hakkim Bhai
• Kottayam Nazeer as Bhasha
• Chalil Baby as A.C.P. Thomas Alex
• Nandhu Krishnamurthy as Sathyan
• Sudheer Karamana as Muthu
• Kiran Raj as Eldo
• Sadiq Muhammed as C.I. Honey Das
• Jaffar Idukki as Murugan Desentmukku
• Arun as Goutham Menon
• Indrans Kochuvelu as Pallan
• K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Mary Thankachan
• Malavika Menon as Annie Thankachan
• Rosin Jolly
• Sarayu Mohan
• Joy John Antony
• Alwyn Fernandus

Soundtrack[]

The soundtrack of the film was composed by Gopi Sunder. The soundtrack album was launched on 13 May 2012 at in Cochin.

References[]

External links[]

• Hero at IMDb