''Alibhabha'' is a 2008 Tamil

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produced by

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Sekhar, directed by Neelan K. Sekar. The film stars the former's son

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along with

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, and Janani in lead roles while

Biju Menon Biju Menon (born 9 September 1970) is an Indian actor who predominantly appears in Malayalam films, and also has a few Tamil cinema, Tamil and Telugu cinema, Telugu film credits. He made his debut in the 1994 Malayalam film ''Puthran''. In a car ...

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, and

Thilakan Palappurathu Kesavan Surendranatha Thilakan (15 July 1935 – 24 September 2012) was an Indian film and stage actor who appeared in over 200 Malayalam films. Thilakan was known for his elaborate method acting, realistic and spontaneous appearan ...

play supporting roles. Vidyasagar scored the music for the film while V. T. Vijayan handled the editing. The film released on 5 September 2008.

Plot

The city is being shaken by many heart-stopping crimes taking place at different places. Young women are being molested and killed with alarming frequency. Velu (

) helps his father Subramaniam (

) in stealing. Being seasoned thieves, they rob everything right from pins to cars. A spate of young women are murdered, and these developments rock the city. Thiagarajan (

), a tough cop, investigates the case. However, differences of opinions crop between the Police Commissioner (

) and Thiagarajan. One day, Velu saves the commissioner from a meeting in order to steal the commissioner car's audio player, and gets acquainted with him. Velu then begins to fall for Janani (Janani), who works in a bank. One day, when Velu withdraws money, he is shocked to find the balance amount to be Rs. 5 Lakhs. It suddenly swells to Rs. 30 Lakhs and reaches Rs. 70 Lakhs. That is when Subramaniam realizes that this is no mere coincidence. Someone was smartly using them as a pawn to cover up for other more serious activities. They were being used as the 'third man', a pretty common term in criminal parlance. Before they realize, all of them are caught in the web that was laid out. Who laid it out, how and why and do they eventually come out of it forms Alibaba. Subramaniam comes to Velu's rescue and manages to find the reason behind it. When the family begins to find out the reason behind this act, it results in bloodshed and gore, eventually ending up in Velu coming across the killers of young women in the city.

Cast

as Velu *

as Subramaniam, Velu's father * Janani as Janani *

as Police Commissioner *

as Thiagarajan, Asst. Police Commissioner *

as Biju Menon's father-in-law *

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as Minister of Labour Department, Thilakan's friend *

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as Velu's friend *

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as Loan Officer

Soundtrack

The music and background score is composed by Vidyasagar, with lyrics written by P. Vijay,

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and Jayantha. *"Krishna Krishna" - Ranjith *"Are Sambo Sambo" -

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*"Neenda Mounam" - Karthik, Rajeswari *"Nenjil Aathadi" - Vidyasagar, Shiva *"Pudhiya Paarvai Ondru" - Ranjith,

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Critical reception

''Sify'' wrote "On the whole Neelan definitely has the stuff in him, for a first timer his screenplay and narration is impressive, but towards the end goes overboard." ''Behindwoods'' wrote "Overall, Alibaba is a movie that relies on the suspense element to carry it through and the director has understood this very well, he is on the button."

References

2008 films Indian thriller films 2000s Tamil-language films Films scored by Vidyasagar 2008 thriller films {{2000s-Tamil-film-stub