| 1 | '''Vartha''' |
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| 4 | 1986 163’ col/scope Malayalam |
| 5 | d I.V. Sasi pc Grihalakshmi Prod. |
| 6 | s T. Damodaran lyr Bichu Thirumala c Jayanan |
| 7 | Vincent m A.T. Ummar, Johnson |
| 8 | lp Mammootty, Mohanlal, Seema, Rehman, |
| 9 | Nalini |
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| 12 | The fearless newspaper editor Madhavan Kutty |
| 13 | (Mammootty) takes on Kerala’s corrupt |
| 14 | political establishment in order to vindicate his |
| 15 | sweetheart Radha (Seema), the district collector |
| 16 | accused of illegal practices. The villain is the |
| 17 | owner of the Manikyam financial group, who |
| 18 | appears to control the state’s entire |
| 19 | bureaucratic and political apparatus. Personal |
| 20 | rivalries weave into political conflict as |
| 21 | Manikyam implicates Radha’s kid brother Unni |
| 22 | in a smuggling operation. Eventually, when all |
| 23 | legal means fail, the editor, the kid brother and |
| 24 | Vasu (Mohanlal), a reformed gangster formerly |
| 25 | in Manikyam’s employ, establish a secret |
| 26 | hideout where they assemble the documents |
| 27 | that would appear to indict virtually everybody |
| 28 | in power of criminal conspiracies. The film’s |
| 29 | dramatic and wholly unexpected end has all |
| 30 | the good guys gunned down by corrupt cops, |
| 31 | making the fight for justice a virtually hopeless |
| 32 | cause. |
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| 34 | [[Film]] |