Ivar (2003 film)

Ivar
Ivar
Directed by	T. K. Rajeev Kumar
Written by	T. K. Rajeev Kumar
Produced by	Santhosh Damodharan
Starring	Jayaram; Bhavana; Biju Menon;
Cinematography	Madhu Neelakandan
Edited by	Arun Kumar Aravind
Music by	songs:; Srinivas; background score:; Sharreth
Production; company	Damor Cinema
Distributed by	Platinum Motion Pictures Pvt. Ltd
Release date	22 October 2003;
Running time	159 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Ivar is a 2003 Indian Malayalam-language action crime thriller film written and directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar and produced by Santhosh Damodharan under the banner Damor Cinema. The film is loosely based on the Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs. Jayaram plays the protagonist^[1] and Biju Menon is the antagonist. The film also stars Bhavana, Siddique, Janardhanan and Rizabawa. The film was mostly shot in Steadicam by the cinematographer of the film Madhu Neelakandan, and was edited by Arun Kumar Aravind.

Plot[edit]

Ivar is an action movie. The movie is all about the underworld, goons and the mafia. Jose, known as Pambu Jose (Biju Menon), is a dreaded underworld don and his rival is Minnal Thankan (P.Balachandran). Jose's close aide is Ninja Hakkim (Anil Murali) and gun moll is Rita (Devi Ajith) along with blind man Vinayakan (Vinayakan). Raghava Menon (Jayaram), a police officer gets into the gang and becomes close to Jose like Hakkim. No one knows that Raghava Menon's goal is to wipe out the mafia.

Raghava Menon works in tandem with the DGP (Janardhanan). The DGP's daughter Nandini (Bhavana) is in love with Menon. Menon uses the underworld rivalry and gathers information on police informers and those on the take to create havoc in mafia camps.

Cast[edit]

Jayaram as Ragahva Menon IPS, City Police Commissioner
Biju Menon as Paambu Jose (lit. Snake Jose)
Bhavana as Nandini
Devi Ajith as Reetha
Anil Murali as Hakkim, Jose's right hand
Vinayakan as Vinayakan
Siddique as Jacob Mathew IPS, Superintendent of Police
Janardhanan as S.K.Nair IPS, Director General of Police
Rizabawa as Prem Kumar IPS, Police Commissioner
Anoop Menon as Thomas IPS, Assistant Superintendent of Police
Sona Nair as Mrs. Hakkim
P. Balachandran as Minnal Thankachan
Rajesh Hebbar as "Alambu" Rajan, Thankachan's henchmen
Poornima Anand as Jose's wife
Lishoy as Circle Inspector
Kalasala Babu
J. Pallassery as Chief Minister
Ramu as Home Minister

Music[edit]

The film's only song was composed by Srinivas, making it his third foray into music composition, while the film's background score was composed by Rajeev Kumar's collaborator Sharreth who had previously worked with him for over nine films before Ivar was made. The song were written by lyricist Beeyar Prasad.

SONG: Ore Swaram
TIME: 5:16
SINGERS: Sreenivas, Karthik, Srilekha Parthasarathy, Thara Thomas Moolayil

References[edit]

^ Krishnakumar, G. (26 January 2007). "Zooming in on mafia". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 20 March 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2009.

External links[edit]

Ivar at IMDb

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[1] Krishnakumar, G. (26 January 2007). "Zooming in on mafia". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 20 March 2008. Retrieved 4 March 2009.

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