Indraprastham (film)

Indraprastham
Indraprastham
Directed by	Haridas
Written by	Robin Thirumala
Produced by	Premkumar Marath
Starring	Mammootty; Vikram; Simran; Prakash Raj; Devan;
Cinematography	Sanjeev Shankar
Edited by	K. Sankunny
Music by	Vidyasagar
Release date	23 August 1996;
Running time	145 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Indraprastham is a 1996 Indian Malayalam-language political thriller directed by Haridas, starring Mammootty, Vikram, Simran, Prakash Raj and Devan. This film marks the debut of Simran in Malayalam cinema.

Plot[]

Chitra Narayan (Simran), a political journalist with Observer Daily in Delhi, is in love with Kiran Verma (Akshay Anand), a budding actor. She intrudes into the illegal affairs of Paul B. Issac (Devan), a Delhi-based politician. Paul B. Issac commits a murder and gets actor Kiran's face morphed onto his body in the video, whereby he traps him for the crime. Kiran is jailed under the charge of murder. Chitra gets the video tape, and she smells foul and tries to reveal the truth behind the morphing of images. She is followed by the goons of Paul. Chitra reaches Bangalore, but the goons reach there after her. She is saved by Sathish Menon (Mammootty), a software engineer. He becomes her savior. After watching the video, Sathish realizes the truth behind the crime and decides to expose Paul B. Issac. Meanwhile, Kiran is killed. Sathish's software company suffers huge setbacks, after the illegal influence of Paul, causing huge losses. Sathish openly begins his battle for justice for Chitra.

Cast[]

Mammootty as Sathish Menon
Vikram as Peter
Simran as Chitra Narayan
Akshay Anand as Kiran Verma
Prakash Raj as Mohan George
Devan as Paul B. Issac
M. G. Soman as K. N. Nair
Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Manikkoth Kunjukrishna Panicker
Nirosha as Anitha Kulkarni
Hemant Birje as Shyam Kaushik
Azeez as Police Commissioner
Abu Salim as Gunda
Priya Raman in the item number
Sakshi Shivanand (Special appearance)

Soundtrack[]

Music : Vidyasagar

Song Title	Singers
"Thanka Thinkal"	M. G. Sreekumar, K. S. Chitra
"Parayumo Mookayamaame"	K. J. Yesudas
"Mazhavillin Kottarathhil"	Sujatha Mohan, Biju Narayanan
"Dekho Simple Magic"	Biju Narayanan
"Bolo Bolo"	K. J. Yesudas

Release[]

Despite the film being a major release during the festive season in Kerala, it could not make profit and was commercially unsuccessful.^[1]

The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as Delhi Darbar, with a reviewer noting "the strong cast is the main attraction".^[2]

References[]

^ "Glam girl Simran happy playing mom on screen". Daily News and Analysis. IANS. 26 May 2008. Archived from the original on 1 February 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
^ "Article". New Straits Times. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

External links[]

Indraprastham at IMDb

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[1] "Glam girl Simran happy playing mom on screen". Daily News and Analysis. IANS. 26 May 2008. Archived from the original on 1 February 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2015.

[2] "Article". New Straits Times. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

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