Chinthamani Kolacase

Chinthamani Kolacase
Directed by	Shaji Kailas
Produced by	M. Renjit
Starring	Suresh Gopi Bhavana Thilakan Biju Menon
Release date(s)	14 April 2006
Language	Malayalam
Budget	6 crores
Box office	11 crores

Chinthamani Kolacase (translated as Chinthamani Murder File) is a Malayalam movie loosely based on an English short story called The Veteran. Directed by Shaji Kailas with Suresh Gopi in the lead role and Bhavana playing the central character, this film narrates the story of a Lal Krishna Viradiyar, a brahmin lawyer and his style of law enforcement and criminal verdict for the criminals after the court sessions. The film succeeded in making moolah at the box office. It also stars Thilakan, Kalabhavan Mani, Biju Menon, Rekha etc.

Plot

The basic premise is of a lawyer doling out his brand of justice on criminals whom he himself had freed from the courts.

The story is centered on Lal Krishna Viradiar (Suresh Gopi), the enigmatic criminal lawyer with an even more enigmatic mission. Lal Krishna helps out hardened criminals to get away from the courts. But later he pursues and takes them out in a bizarre show of vigilante justice.

The film begins with the acquittal of Isra Khureshi, accused of raping and killing Rasiya, his Arabic teacher. Isra Khureshi calls up Lal Krishna Viradiyar, his lawyer, asking him to come to meet him at an isolated place for a celebration. Lal Krishna arrives at the spot and kills Khureshi, claiming that its his duty to wipe out evil forces to maintain the cosmic law. He, then kills David Rajarathnam, a Tamil businessman, who was accused of raping his own daughter. Jagannivasan (Biju Menon), the superintendent of police is suspicious of the moves of Lal Krishnan, and is following him for long time. It was then, the case of case of Mirchi Girls, a band of spoilt, rich NRI girls, reaching him. They are the main accused in the murder of Chinthamani (Bhavana), their college mate, an innocent girl from conservative back ground. Viramani Varier (Thilakan), her father is fighting hard for justice and is represented by Kannayi Parameshwaran (Saikumar), a public prosecutor, who is famous for his unique style of argument. After a long court battle, Lal Krishna succeeds in bringing the judgement in favor Mirchi Girls. LK finds out that it was none other than Kannayi Parameshwaran, who has committed murder of Chinthamani, while attempting to rape her. Lal Krishna, in his own violent way kills Kannayi to deliver justice to Chinthamani and her old father Viramani Varier

Response

This film was released a few months after the success of Shaji Kailas - Suresh Gopi team's The Tiger. Chinthamani Kolacase went on become one of the biggest money grosser of the year 2006. This film also added reaffirmed the chair of Shaji Kailas and Suresh Gopi in Malayalam cinema. The script of this film was done by A. K. Sajan, who had earlier done films like Butterflies, Janathipathyam, Crime File and Stop Violence. This was his first film with Shaji Kailas. Later they did films Red Chillies (2009) with Mohanlal in lead and Drona 2010 (2010) with Mammooty in lead, both huge flops.

Cast

• Suresh Gopi .... Lal Krishna Viradiyar
• Bhavana .... Chinthamani
• Thilakan .... Viramani Varier
• Biju Menon .... SP Jagannivasan
• Kalabhavan Mani
• Saikumar
• Vani Vishwanath ...
• Jibin Thomas(achayan)

Remakes

It was remade in Telugu as Sri Mahalakshmi starring Srihari and remade as Ellaam Avan Seyal with same director. Newcomer RK play Lal Krishna and Shamna play Chitamani. Sunny Deol slated to star in the Hindi remake of Chintamani Kolacase