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film, written by

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, directed by Joshiy and produced by Jagan Appachan under Jagan Pictures. The film stars

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and

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in the lead roles. The film has musical score by

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and cinematography was handled by N. A. Thara. The film revolves around CI Haridas (Nazir) and his family, consisting of his wife Malathy (Srividya) and daughter (Sonia) and Viswanathan(Madhu)a military man and his revenge against the people who killed his wife and threatened his family.This is the first movie of Captain Raju as an actor The film was declared a ''hit'' and was remade in Tamil as '' Saatchi,'' in Telugu as ''Balidaanam'' and in Hindi as '' Balidaan.''

Plot

CI Haridas (Prem Nazir) lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with his aunt while his father, retired Major Nair lives in the countryside in a farmhouse. Haridas meets and falls in love with Malathy (Srividya), who lives opposite his house along with her father, Pillechan ashan (Sankaradi) and her mother Janki (Shubha Khote). When Pillechan ashan finds out that Malathy and Haridas are in love, he forbids her to see him, but subsequently relents when she takes poison. Both Haridas and Malathy get married and shortly thereafter give birth to a girl. After some time Haridas has been specially appointed by the government to catch dangerous, deadly criminal Padmanabhan (Balan K Nair) who is the leader of a bandit's gang, once they stop a wedding party bus on the Bombay-Poona Highway, loot, sexually molest females, and kill several passengers, Haridas is successful in arresting one of the gangsters, a Hotel Manager named Gunda (Captain Raju), who colluded with the bandits, but Advocate Ghaswala (Asrani) defends him and gets him acquitted, resulting in the killing of the only eye-witness, a 10-year-old boy. In retaliation, Haridas beats up and kills Gunda, which results in his suspension. Then Haridas starts getting threats and has a bomb planted in his house. The panic-stricken family flees to Major Nair's farmhouse, but bandits locate them there and forcibly abduct Malathy and their daughter after assaulting Major Nair. Haridas must now rush to save his wife and daughter, but he could save only his daughter; Malathy dies by falling under the train. Now Vijay decides to take revenge against Padmanabhan (Balan K Nair) and his gang, he eliminates them one by one and finally, surrenders him to the judiciary.

Cast

as Vishwanathan *

as CI Haridas *

as Malathy *

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as Dr Venu *

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as Major Nair *

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as Pillechan ashan *

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as Gunda *

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as Padmanabhan *

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as Kuttappan *

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as Valsala *

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as Sreekutti *

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as Neelakandan *

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as SP *

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as Johny *

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as George *

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as Haridas's daughter *Sathyachithra as Padmanabhan's lover *EO Joseph as Ramankutty

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

and the lyrics were written by R. K. Damodaran.

References

External links

* 1981 films 1980s Malayalam-language films Indian action films Malayalam films remade in other languages Films shot in Mumbai 1981 action films {{1980s-Malayalam-film-stub