''Chaverpada'' () is a 2010 Indian

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thriller film directed by T. S. Jaspal starring Bala,

Manikuttan Thomas James better known by his stage name Manikuttan or 'MK', is an Indian actor who prominently works in the Malayalam film industry. He is known for his role as Kayamkulam Kochunni in the famous TV serial of the same title broadcast by S ...

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and Krishna Prasad in the lead roles.

Plot

''Chaverpada'' tells the story of a group of engineering college students Ameer Sulthan (

), Abhimanyu (

), Vivek Narayan (Vivek) and Nandhan G. Nair (Tony) who have developed a means of their own to voice their protests against the ills that have gripped today's society. The testing phase of a software that they have developed causes unexpected jams in the traffic signals as well as the wireless system of the city. The youngsters realize that they are in trouble when the cops find out more about the incident. Police moved to the college to arrest them. However, they are kidnapped by the terrorists before the cops could lay their hands on them. Visal Sabhapathi ( Bala), the leader of the NSG Commando Wing, is soon called in to look into the case and rescue the students.

Cast

* Bala as Visal Sabhapathi, NSG officer *

as Ameer Sulthan *

as Abhimanyu * Vivek as Vivek Narayan * Tony as Nandan G. Nair *

Muktha Elsa George Elsa George, better known by her stage names Muktha and Bhanu is an Indian actress who works in Malayalam and Tamil film industries and television actress. She is also a classical dancer and an entrepreneur. Early life Originally from Angama ...

as Gopika * Krishna Prasad as Suryanarayanan Potti / Badusha Khan *

Anil Murali Anil Murali (12 April 1964 – 30 July 2020) was an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more than 200 films. He started out in the film industry as a villain before later taking on character roles. He died on 30 July 2020, as a re ...

as NSG officer Vikram *

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as NSG officer Shaan * Anzil Rahman *

Kochu Preman K. S. Premkumar (1 June 1955 – 3 December 2022), better known by his stage name Kochu Preman, was an Indian actor who worked in Malayalam film industry. He acted in more than 300 films, mainly in supporting comedy roles, and also appeared i ...

* Sudhi Koppa * Pawan as Jaggu Bhai / Jehangir Mustafa / Varghese Antony / Yogeeshwaran / Parameshwaran * Johnson * Ajay Nataraj

Reception

Veeyen of ''Nowrunning'' rated the film one out of five stars and said that "Chaverpada is a wannabe thriller that falls short on the bangs and blasts. There are very few real thrilling moments in it, and unfortunately none of the several, sketchily drawn characters connect with us".

References

Indian action thriller films 2010s Malayalam-language films {{2010s-Malayalam-film-stub