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The King is a film of genre Thriller directed by Shaji Kailas with Mammootty
The King (1995)
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Add to a movie listThe King is a 1995 Malayalam political thriller film. Directed by Shaji Kailas and written by Renji Panicker with Mammootty in the title role as district collector.
In 2012, Shaji Kailas made a combined sequel for The King and Commissioner (1994) titled The King and the Commissioner, in which Mammootty and Suresh Gopi reprised their roles as Joseph Alex IAS and Bharath Chandran IPS in lead.
Synopsis
The city of Kozhikode is victimized by a massive communal riot against the slums, costing the lives of 12 people. Madhu Kumar (Appa Haja), a wildlife photographer, had witnessed a group of criminals transporting explosives through the local forest check post, so he calls up the local police commissioner Shankar (Devan) and passes the information. Shankar asks him to wait for his officers to pick him up. But instead of the police, it was the same goons who came for Madhu, resulting in his death. While having the police to fight against the rioters, the aggressive and belligerent, yet honorable and incorruptible district collector Joseph Alex IAS (Mammootty) is suspicious of Shankar's activities and decides to investigate the case. He is assisted by ASP Prasad (Ganeshan), one of the sincere officers who admires Joseph for his arrogant way of dealing politicians and officials. Also tagging along with Alex is the young assistant district collector Anuradha Mukerji IAS (Vani Viswanath), whose freecare style conflicts against Alex's strict behavior because of her tragic childhood. It later turns out that Anura's behavior was rooted from a horrible experience of when her father continuously cheated on her mother a lot, and that her mother prayed to her to no avail, which is why Anura pretended to be a freak to ease her pain. Upon learning this, Alex decides to warm up to her.Actors
Mammootty
(Thevalliparambil Joseph Alex IAS)
Vani Viswanath
(Anura Mukharji IAS)
Vijayaraghavan
(Sanjay)
Murali
(Jayakrishnan)
Kuthiravattam Pappu
(Krishnan)
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Actors Mammootty, Thilakan, Kanika, Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena), Bala, Manoj K. Jayan
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