Alexander is a 1996

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directed by

Keyaar Kothanda Ramaiah (also known as K.R and Keyaar) is an Indian Tamil film director, producer, distributor and exhibitor. He has held various leading positions in different film industry organizations. Career KR studied film processing at the A ...

. The film stars

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and

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in lead roles. The film, produced by Meena Panchu Arunachalam, had musical score by

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and was released on 10 November 1996 as a Deepavali release and was an average grosser at box office.

Plot

Ashok's brothers smuggle drugs and are unstoppable. Only Alexander, a CBI officer, can arrest them.

Cast

as Alexander *

as Priya * Prakash Raj as Ashok *

Srihari Srihari (15 August 1964 – 9 October 2013) was an Indian actor who was active mainly in Telugu cinema. He appeared in a few Tamil, Kannada and Hindi films as well. He won seven Nandi Awards and one Filmfare Award. Early life Srihari was bor ...

as Hari *

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as Thayamma *Jeeva as Brinda * Nizhalgal Ravi as Gandhirajan *

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as Lakshmi *Rajasekhar as Rajasekhar *Laxmi Rattan as Choudary *Aditya Kumar *Bobby

Soundtrack

The film score and the soundtrack were composed by

. The soundtrack, released in 1996, features 5 tracks with lyrics written by Vaali, Panchu Arunachalam and Parthi Bhaskar.

References

{{Keyaar 1996 films 1990s Tamil-language films Central Bureau of Investigation in fiction Films scored by Karthik Raja Films directed by Keyaar