C.I.D. Moosa

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name = C.I.D.Moosa


director = Johnny Antony
producer = Dileep, Anoop
starring = Dileep
Bhavana
Ashish Vidyarthi
Jagathy Sreekumar
Cochin Haneefa
Harisree Ashokan
Saleem Kumar
music = Vidyasagar
writer = Uday Krishna Siby k.Thomas
Year = 2003
language = Malayalam

"C.I.D.Moosa" is a Malayalam film directed by Johnny Antony. Dileep plays the hero and he himself produces the film. Bhavana plays his heroine. The film also stars Harishree Ashokan, Cochin Haneefa, Jagathy Sreekumar, Oduvil Unnikrishnan,Saleem Kumar etc. It was remade in Tamil as Seena Thaana 001 but it failed to receive any success that this film had received.

Plot

Sahadevan (Dileep) is the son a police constable (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) in the dog squad. Sahadevan has only one ambition and that is to join the police department and for that he has cleared the exams and is waiting for the physical test. But he has an enemy, his own brother-in-law Peethambaran (Jagathy Sreekumar) who does not like him. Along with the police commissioner (Ashish Vidyarthi), Peetambaran sees that Sahadevan does not clear his physical test.He is insulted and kicked out but Sahadevan does not give up. When he foils a bomb plan, the blame is put on him by the police commisioner but he is saved by a higher authority. When he finds out who the crooks are, he tries to find a way to foil it and that hope was to become a private detective. He becomes a private detective and calls himself CID Moosa. He has Arjun, a smart dog who was condemned for mercy killing by the police dog squad and a funky car that sprays chilli powder and throws marbles to assist him. Moosa's mission is to save the life of state chief minister (Murali) who is under death threat from a group of terrorists. Moosa has a lover Meena (Bhavana) who is a Gujarati girl.

Dileep and his debutant director Johnny have copied scenes from various Hollywood comedies like K- 9, Home Alone Series, Police Academy and Austin Power series along with Spiderman and Superman costumes to bring children to the theatre.However, it has been a worth watching movie for the kids as well as the comic lovers. The director entered in the main stream with this movie. This movie was a big hit in the same year.

Cast

*Dileep....Moolamkuzhi Sahadevan
*Ashish Vidyarthi....Police Commissioner
*Jagathy Sreekumar....Peethambaran
*Bhavana...Meena

Box Office

The film was released on July 4 2003 , was a tremendous hit.The film ran for more than 150 days in theaters , both National and International