''Thaskaraveeran'' ( The brave thief /The great thief ) is a 2005 Indian

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-language film directed by

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. The film stars

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with

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, Rajan P.Dev, Siddique, and

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in supporting roles. It has a dubbed Hindi version which is called ''Kala Samrajya''.

Plot

Arakkalam Peeli, a veteran thief, adept in creating different masks was killed by Eapen with an indirect support from the former's son Arakkalam Kuttappan. Kuttappan's son, Baby, who happens to witness the murder runs away from the village. He later becomes a smuggler and robber. Several years later Kuttappan is sent to prison by a cunning Eapen who is then a rich businessman over an issue related to loan. This causes Baby to return to his village. He gives him gold biscuits to settle the matter and bails out his father. That night Baby manages to steal the same biscuits from Eapen's house by pretending to be his eldest son Thommi. He uses a mask just as his grandfather used to. After handing over the biscuits to Mumbai-based gangster he decides to settle in his village. He stays with Meenakshi, his late grandfather's ex-lover, and seldom meets his father (as he is unable to completely forgive him due to his involvement in his grandfather's murder). He vows to destroy the wealth of Eapen and how he does it forms the rest of the story.

Cast

as Arakkalam Kochu Baby / Arakkalam Bhai *

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as Thankamani *

as Meenakshi *

as Malayil Eapen *

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as Arakkalam Kuttappan * Siddique as Malayil Thommi *

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as Malayil Peter *Niyaz Musaliyar as Malayil Johnny * Kiranraj as Haafiz Akbar Jinnah *

as Arakkalam Peeli *

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as Postman Sugathan *

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as Chandy *

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as CI Ayyappan Pillai *

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as Ramkumar *

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as Malayil Itty *

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as Kargil Narayanan *

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as Raghavan Maashu *

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as Sethulakshmi * Kishor Sathya as Deepu *

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as Balu *

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as Smuggler *

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as Narayanan Kutty * Dinesh Prabhakar as Villager *

as Beerankutty * Deepika Mohan as Raghavan's wife * Sruthi Nair

Soundtrack

*"Chenthamare Vaa" - Madhu Balakrishnan *"Aarthirimulle" - Balu *"Karimukilil" - Franco *"Aarthirimulle (version 2)" - Srinivas

References

External links

* 2005 films 2000s Malayalam-language films Indian heist films Films directed by Pramod Pappan Films scored by Ouseppachan Films shot in Palakkad {{2000s-Malayalam-film-stub