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Commissioner is a film of genre Crime directed by Shaji Kailas with Suresh Gopi
Commissioner (1994)
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Add to a movie listCommissioner is a 1994 Indian Malayalam action – thriller film produced by M. Mani, written by Ranji Panicker, directed by Shaji Kailas, and starring Suresh Gopi as Police Commissioner Bharath Chandran. The film also stars Ratheesh, Vijayaraghavan, Shobana, M. G. Soman, Rajan P. Dev, Ganesh Kumar, and Bheeman Raghu. The background score was composed by Rajamani and the cinematography was by Dinesh Baboo.
It is treated as a cult classic film among Keralite audiences.. The Telugu dubbed version Police Commissioner broke several collection records.
In 2005, eleven years after the release of the film, it had a sequel named Bharath Chandran I.P.S., directed by Ranji Panicker himself, making his directorial debut. It also was a blockbuster and ran for 100 days like its prequel. in 2012 a crossover film The King & the Commissioner, starring Mammootty and Suresh Gopi, with the characters from The King (1995), Commissioner (1994) and Bharath Chandran I.P.S. (2005) respectively, was released.
Synopsis
The movie opens with Kozhikode city police commissioner Bharathchandran (Suresh Gopi ), an honest but brash cop, busting a gold smuggling racket in. Bharath clearly has an issue with authority and breaths fire each time he encounters a political arm bender, such as Kunju Moideen Saahib, whose gang was involved in the bust. But it his mentor and guardian angel I.G. Balachandran (M.G. Soman), who has been evidently shielding him from the wrath of the political brass.Actors
Suresh Gopi
(Bharathchandran I.P.S)
Ratheesh
(Mohan Thomas)
Vijayaraghavan
(Mohammad Iqbal)
Shobana
(Indu)
M. G. Soman
(Balachandran Nair)
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