Moonnam Mura

Moonnam Mura
Directed by	K. Madhu
Produced by	G. P. Vijayakumar
Screenplay by	S. N. Swamy
Starring	Mohanlal Lalu Alex Revathi
Music by	Shyam (BGM)
Cinematography	Vipin Das
Editing by	V. P. Krishnan
Studio	Seven Arts
Distributed by	Seven Arts Release
Release date(s)	10 November 1988 (1988-11-10)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Moonnam Mura is an action thriller Malayalam movie starring Mohanlal and Revathi. It was released in the year 1988. It was directed by K. Madhu. The movie deals with the kidnapping of a group by terrorists, and the commando mission to rescue them.

Synopsis

A group of High ranking political officials are on a trip when their bus is hijacked by a group of terrorists headed by Lalu Alex and Babu Antony.They demand the release of their old colleagues languishing in prison in exchange for safe release of the politicians.Sukumaran plays the cop who is handling the negotiations and vying for their release.Things start slithering out of control and couple of hostages are killed. Thats when Sukumaran decides to enlist the help of Ali Imran (Mohanlal) in rescuing the hostages.Ali is an ex cop who quit the police force out of disgust due to the unfair treatment meted out to him while he was in the force.This decision is met with some opposition from the Chief of police (Janardhanan) and his son in law (Srinath) as their politics and attitude promted Mohanlal to leave the force. Though unwilling at first after persuasion by Sukumaran who was his supporter in the police he decides to go ahead with the rescue mission.After careful surveillance Mohanlal along with a couple of his friends is able to sneak into the palace where the hostages are bundled up and manages to rescue them and finish off Lalu Alex in the end.

Cast

Actor	Role
Mohanlal	Ali Imran
Lalu Alex	Charles
Sukumaran	DIG Menon
Janardhanan	Mathews
Suresh Gopi	Vaishakhan
Sreenath	SI Raju
Revathi	Mini Johnson
Mukesh	Vinod
Prathapachandran	Bharathan Menon
Vijayaraghavan	Karunan
Babu Antony	Antony
Murali	Jayan
C. I. Paul	Minister
Innocent	Kisan Jacob
Paravoor Bharathan	Balakrishnan
Mala Aravindan	Driver
Kollam Thulasi	Home Secretary
Jose	Doctor
M. S. Thrippunithura	Namboothiri
T. P. Madhavan	Panikkar
Babu Namboothiri	Mohan
V. K. Sreeraman	Simon
Mohan Raj
Shyama
Valsala Menon

Reception

The movie is a superhit. An incident was happened on the release day at Thrissur Jose theatre that 15 people were injured and 1 died due to rush for the movie.

See also

• List of Mohanlal films

External links

• Moonnam Mura at the Internet Movie Database