''Chempada'' (English: ''Red Army'') is a 2008
Malayalam language
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...
thriller film written and directed by Robin Thirumala in his directorial debut.
The film is based on the novel ''Avar Nagarathilund'' by M. D. Ajayaghosh which was serialised in ''
Manorama Weekly''.
Plot
The film revolves around a music troupe of youngsters named 'Red Army'. Headed by its mentor Captain Mukundan Menon, the group's real operations are to loot and kill people who have amassed wealth through wrong means and to cleanse the world of crime and injustice. Manu (Bala), a naive guy from Vagamon and son of a driver working for R. K. Nair, a rich planter, loved Meenakshi (Sreedevika), an innocent girl. But Meenakshi was raped by the planter and his accomplices. Being loyal to the master, Manu's father took the blame upon himself and got arrested. Things took a different turn when his father committed suicide in jail under suspicious circumstances and Meenakshi went missing. Manu then took up arms to avenge R. K. Nair and his men, but was beaten and left badly wounded in a desolate place, where he was found by the troupe members. Manu, who is later inducted into the troupe, gets a new name, Harikrishnan, and becomes active in the troupe's activities. What happens next forms the rest of the movie.
Cast
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Bala as Manu/Harikrishnan
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Sridevika as Meenakshi
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Lakshana
Lakshana ( sa, लक्षण ') – derived from the combination of words ''lakshya'' and ''kshana'' – means 'indication' or 'symptom'. It also means 'an auspicious mark', 'attribute' or 'quality'. In Tamil language, Lakshanam means "features" ...
as Reshmi
* Kochunni Prakash
* Tosh Christy
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Baburaj
Mohammad Sabir Baburaj was an Indian music composer. He is often credited for the renaissance of Malayalam film music. Baburaj has rendered music to many evergreen Malayalam film songs.
Early years
Baburaj was born on 9 March 1929 in Kozhikod ...
as Merkariyoz
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Kalabhavan Mani
Kunnisseri Veettil Raman Mani (1 January 1971 – 6 March 2016), better known by his stage name Kalabhavan Mani, was an Indian actor and singer. Mani started his career as a mimicry artist with the Kalabhavan comedy troupe. He had starred in ov ...
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K. B. Ganesh Kumar
Keezhoote Balakrishna Pillai Ganesh Kumar (born 25 May 1966) is an Indian actor, television host, and politician. Ganesh Kumar is a proposed cabinet minister for the last 2.5 years in the ongoing 2nd LDF govt in Kerala and he is also the curre ...
as A.S.P Ravishanker
*Govind as Akash Nair
*Nisha Sarang as Lekha
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Sadiq
Sadiq is a male name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Ja'far al-Sadiq, the 8th-century Muslim scholar and scientist, considered as an Imam and founder of the Ja'fari school of jurisprudence by Twelver and Isma'ili Shi’as, and a major fi ...
as Paily
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Robin A Thirumala
T Robinson better known as Robin Thirumala ( born on 30 May 1964) is an Indian film director, screenwriter , music composer , lyricist and founder of the ''4 am Club Foundation''.
Career
Thirumala started his career as a journalist in 1985. He ...
as News Reporter (Cameo Appearance)
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack contains 10 songs, all composed by Robin Thirumala. Lyrics were by Robin Thirumala,
Prakash Marar,
Firoz Thikkodi.
References
External links
Review Sify.com
Oneindia.in
Review Indiaglitz.com
2008 films
2000s Malayalam-language films
Films based on Indian novels
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