| 1 | '''Sainyam''' |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 | aka The Army |
| 5 | 1994 194’ col/scope Malayalam |
| 6 | d Joshi pc Evershine Films |
| 7 | p S.S.T. Subramanyam, V. Balaram st/lyr Shibu |
| 8 | Chakravarthy sc/dial S.N. Swamy c Jayanan |
| 9 | Vincent m S.P. Venkatesh |
| 10 | lp Mammootty, Mukesh, Mohini, Priya Raman |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | A nationalist ‘tribute’ to the Indian Air Force, |
| 14 | continuing a pan-Indian trend of 90s nationalist |
| 15 | melodramas (cf. Roja, 1992; 1942: A Love |
| 16 | Story, 1994) often valorizing India’s armed |
| 17 | forces while excoriating Muslim separatists. |
| 18 | The intensely nationalist Air Force officer |
| 19 | Eeshwar (Mammootty) leads an exclusively |
| 20 | Malayali unit stationed in politically turbulent |
| 21 | Kashmir. He reluctantly offers shelter to the |
| 22 | beautiful Lakshmi (Mohini) when she is |
| 23 | deserted by her lover. It later emerges that her |
| 24 | cruel lover supports the separatist militants and |
| 25 | blackmails her into leaking secrets from |
| 26 | Eeshwar’s files. Eventually, Eeshwar, with his |
| 27 | ‘good’ Muslim colleague, settles both personal |
| 28 | and national scores with the timely help of |
| 29 | some reformed Kashmiri terrorists who |
| 30 | surrender with a speech committing |
| 31 | themselves to peace, education, growth and |
| 32 | progress. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[Film]] |