The King (1995 film)

The King is a 1995 Indian Malayalam-language political thriller film. Directed by Shaji Kailas and written by Renji Panicker, with Mammootty in the lead role as district collector. The film was a commercial success.[2][3] 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.[4][5][6]

The King
Directed byShaji Kailas
Produced byManjalamkuzhi Ali
Written byRenji Panicker
StarringMammootty
Vani Viswanath
Vijayaraghavan
Murali
Suresh Gopi (Cameo)
Music byRajamani
CinematographyRavi K. Chandran
Dinesh Babu
Edited byL. Bhoominathan
Distributed byMAK Productions
Release date
  • 11 November 1995 (1995-11-11)
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Running time
198 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Plot

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, witnesses a group of criminals transporting explosives through the local forest check post, so he calls up the local police commissioner Shankar (Devan) and passes on the information. Shankar asks him to wait for his officers to pick him up. But instead of the police, it is the same goons who come 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 (K. B. Ganesh Kumar), one of the sincere officers who admires Joseph for his arrogant way of dealing with politicians and officials. Also tagging along with Joseph is the young assistant district collector Anura Mukerji IAS (Vani Viswanath) who completed her training in Trivandrum. Anura's carefree style conflicts with Joseph's strict behavior. It later turns out that Anura's behavior originated from a horrible experience when her father cheated on her mother a lot, and that her mother prayed to no avail, which is why Anura pretended to be a freak to ease her pain. Upon learning this, Alex warms up to her.

The next day, Joseph is brought over to a personal hearing with the state minister John Varghese (Kollam Thulasi), who berates him over his behavior while attempting to stop the riots. However, Joseph stands up by berating Varghese for his belief in using his power to hurt others. Meanwhile, Madhu's father (Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair) reaches out to Prasad for filing a missing persons case, resulting in Prasad discovering the body of Madhu in a decomposed state with his camera, but the film is missing.

As the investigation heats up, the local Member of Parliament Jayakrishnan (Murali) is struggling over the issues over the damaged area. However, it turns out that he is the mastermind behind the massacre, as he planned the communal violence against the slums to plan a new real estate business in the area. Also involved in the conspiracy is Varghese himself, Kandanmkuzhi Thankachan (Azeez), and Shankar, who tries hard to topple off the investigation, revealing that he sent up the goons to find and kill Madhu to cover their tracks.

The local police medical surgeon Dr. Vijay (Vijay Menon), who has conducted the autopsy of Madhu, later finds that Madhu was actually murdered. However, before he could reveal it to the public, he was found dead in a road accident the next morning. Sanjay (Vijayaraghavan), a close buddy of Joseph during his Mussourie training days, arrives in Kozhikode to investigate the murder of Dr. Vijay, who happens to be his younger brother. Joseph, along with Sanjay and Prasad, find out that Dr. Vijay was injected with a powerful drug by the same goons who killed Madhu, which could have contributed to the accident. While Jayakrishnan flies off to Delhi to accept his new job as cabinet minister of Central Ministry, Joseph interrogates Varghese, who then reveals the identity of the leading goon responsible for the murders of Madhu and Dr. Vijay, Ananthashankara Iyer (T. S. Krishnan). After arresting Iyer, Joseph uses the same sedative that resulted in Dr. Vijay's death to force Iyer into giving out important information of the conspiracy behind the communal riot. However, before Alex and Prasad could escort Iyer to the police station, Iyer's boss Vikram Khorpade, a Mumbai underworld don who has strong ties with Jayakrishnan and being a major player in the conspiracy, arrives and causes a shootout that allowed him to rescue Iyer. Vikram also takes the opportunity to personally kill Anura by shooting her down before fleeing away with Iyer, much to Joseph's shock.

Declaring this personal, Joseph, Prasad, and Sanjay track down Vikram and his goons to a horse farm. After Sanjay kills Iyer by hanging him on a chain, Joseph takes Vikram into custody, forcing him to reveal the identities of the people behind the conspiracy. On the arrival at the airport after a sworn-in ceremony as the new Cabinet Minister, Jayakrishnan is met by an angry Joseph and several other officers, as they have awaited for his return. Joseph then takes the opportunity to reveal Jayakrishnan's plans and conspiracy to the public, using both Iyer's and Vikram's confession as proof of his findings. As a result, Jayakrishnan is placed under arrest for conspiracy to crime and murder while Shankar is suspended from the police force and arrested by his own officers for the same charges. However, Jayakrishnan, refusing to concede defeat, takes one of his guards' guns and fires at the crowd, killing Vikram and several citizens. Jayakrishnan then uses the commotion to make a getaway in a car, only for Joseph to shoot the gas tank, resulting an explosion that destroys the car, killing Jayakrishnan inside. Joseph is then hailed as a hero by the public for his actions.

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References
  1. "The King". www.komparify.com. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  2. Nagarajan, Saraswathy (22 March 2012). "Day of the action heroes". The Hindu.
  3. "Report". Deepika.
  4. "Mammootty and Suresh Gopi team up". Rediff.com. 11 July 2011.
  5. "Double Impact". The Indian Express. 15 July 2015.
  6. "All Set for a Double Impact". The New Indian Express. 24 March 2012.
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