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Chanakyan is a film of genre Thriller directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar with Kamal Haasan
Chanakyan (1989)
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Add to a movie listChanakyan is a 1989 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by T K Rajeev Kumar, starring Kamal Haasan, Urmila Matondkar, Jayaram, Madhu and Thilakan.
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The film opens with a high tech person's (Kamal Hasan) attempt to kill Chief Minister Madhava Menon (Thilakan), but due to circumstances, he fail in his attempt. Later Johnson (Kamal Haasan) happens to watch a Mimicry show of an artist (Jayaram) imitating several celebrity voices. Johnson convinces Jayaram himself as a government employee and makes him to mimic the voice of Madhava Menon reading out false promises through TV and radio to the public and the image of Madhava Menon gets affected in public.Actors
Kamal Haasan
(Johnson)
Jayaram
(Jayaram)
Thilakan
(Madhava Menon)
Madhu
(DIG K. Gopalakrishna Pillai)
Urmila Matondkar
(Renu)
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