''Netaji'' is a 2019 Indian cinema made in

Irula language Irula is a Dravidian language spoken by the Irulas who inhabit the area of the Nilgiri mountains, in the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka, India. It is closely related to Tamil. It is written in the Tamil script. Origins The langu ...

directed by Vijeesh Mani for producer Johny Kuruvila. The film stars Gokulam Gopalan in his first title role along with Master Alok and others. The film has

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as cinematographer and

Harikumar Madhavan Nair Harikumar Madhavan Nair is an Indian film audiographer and sound designer. He works in Hindi and Malayalam cinema. He has worked on numerous documentary films and has won 3 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Audiography The Natio ...

as sound designer. The film was shot at

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. Netaji is officially India's first Irula language film, and the film won

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award for the first tribal language film. The film was also selected in the Indian Panorama section of IFFI Goa, 2019 as well as

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2020.

Summary

Netaji is the story of Virat (Master Alok) and his Grandfather Netaji Gopalakrishnan, who was with

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. Virat, a city based kid comes to stay with his grandfather, now staying with Irula tribe.

Cast

*Gokulam Gopalan - Netaji Gopalakrishnan *Master Alok - Virat *Roji P. Kurian - Roji *RajeshB - Maari *Ashly Boban - Sarayu *Baby Siyamol - Valli *Issac Pattanipparambil - Gandhiyan Kumaran *Prasannan Pillai - IB Officer *Felix Kuruvila - Rahul *Murali Mattummal - Vaidhyar *Aakash Boban - Aakash *Sharafudeen - Siddharth *Asmin - Meena

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

Jubair Muhammed Jubair Muhammed is an Indian music composer and playback singer who works in Malayalam cinema. Jubair has worked on Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi language films, Music Videos and Short Films. Early life Jubair Muhammed was born t ...

and the lyrics were written by Dr. Prashanth Krishna. *Namath Naadu Solai Naadu... - Jubair Mohammed (Singer) *Va......Vayi.....Ya...Vai aggae.. - Adv. Gayathri R Nair (Singer) *Swaelae...... Swaelae... - Varsha Renjith (Singer)

Accolades

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