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-language film, directed by

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and produced by N. Kesavan Nair. The film stars

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, Balan K. Nair,

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and

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. The film has musical score by Guna Singh. The film faced negative criticism regarding execution of the story upon its release.

Plot

It is an action drama based on revenge. Ramesh an orphan is taken in by a poor family, he is an auto-driver. The girl in the family is constantly disturbed by two rich youngsters. Ramesh warns them off. Jilted they kidnap Ramesh's sister and rapes her, his sister stabs Suresh fatally and Suresh strangles her down before dying. Knowing the news, Ramesh comes first to the scene. Police seeing Ramesh at the crime scene arrests him. Suresh's father is a Mafia boss, he is disturbed by the death of his eldest son Suresh. He wants to take revenge on the whole family and sends Jambu to extradite Ramesh from the prison to punish him personally. Injured, Ramesh escapes en route into the forest and reaches in front of a tribal fight master's hut. The police officer who was in charge gets punishment transfer to the nearby forest, which is operation area of the Mafia boss. Ramesh recuperates and learns tribal fighting style from the master. He falls in love with Rani, his master's daughter. Jambu, who has to meet requirements of Arabian smugglers from the forest finds it hard with the presence of the police officer. He warns the police officer for raiding and taking over his materials. He later comes in with the Mafia boss' youngest son Sughu and rapes the Police officers wife and hangs her dead body in the forest and leaves the baby in the forest. Ramesh and Rani in their walkabout find the baby and fight off a tiger to save it and decide to look after the child. The Police officer who is in search of his family hears his child crying in the forest and follows it. Seeing Ramesh, he mistakes that Ramesh kidnapped his wife and child. Tribal master resolves the dispute and they look for his wife and find the body. Angered, he and Ramesh storm into the smugglers' camp and kill Sughu. Hearing this news, the Mafia boss is angered and decides to go all out on those who have wronged him. After a long fight the police officer, Ramesh, Rani and Khellappan's ragtag team captures them with accompanying police force. Ramesh, who finds peace goes back into the jungle with Rani and the tribal master.

Cast

as Ramesh * Balan K. Nair as Mafia boss *

as Rambo Jambu *

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as Suresh *

as Police officer *

as Rani (Credited as Vijayalakshmi) * Sudheer as Tribal fight master *

Kuthiravattam Pappu Padmadalakshan, better known by his stage name Kuthiravattam Pappu (24 December 1936 – 25 February 2000), was a popular Indian stage and film actor. His repertoire of acting was based on his unique style and use of the '' Kozhikodan'' dialect, ...

as Khellappan

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Guna Singh with lyrics by Bharanikkavu Sivakumar.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0274699, Ottayan 1985 films 1980s Malayalam-language films