The best Maniyanpilla Raju’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Maniyanpilla Raju’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Maniyanpilla Raju.
Commissioner
7.7/10
The story takes a break from Bharath to introduce the main antagonist Mohan Thomas, a Delhi-based business tycoon, with strong political clout and a clear sociopathic agenda. It is revealed that Mohan Thomas had entrusted Saahib with the gold, which was confiscated by Bharath and is in fact the kingpin heading an unholy nexus of politicians, criminals and various officials including two high ranking cops, Rajan Felix, I.G. Vigilance and Menon, A.I.G., who are involved in criminal activities like instigating communal riots and large scale distribution of counterfeit currency.
Lokpal
3.1/10
Chef Nandagopal (Mohanlal), while publicly known as the chef of the popular Nandu's Food Court, is also 'Lokpal' (Peoples' Protector), who fights corruption. The film does a flashback to Nandagopal's backstory which involves "attempted murder, a juvenile home and unrequited love
Harikrishnans
6.8/10
Harikrishnans movie revolves around Harikrishnan (Mammootty and Mohanlal) who are one of the most famous lawyer duo in India. To avoid confusion one is called as Hari (Mammooty) and the other as Krishnan (Mohanlal). They are known to take lakhs for single sittings. They head the oragnisation called Harikrishnan Associates, which consists of around 300 lawyers, all being their juniors.
Athirathram
7.2/10
Prasad (Mohanlal) and Rajesh (Captain Raju) are brothers and police officers tasked to take down a smuggling ring. Taradas (Mammootty) and his uncle Tarasankar (Ummer) outwit the efforts of the police. Things take a twist when Rajesh realizes that his wife Tulasi (Seema) was the ex-girlfriend of Taradas.
Adayalam
6.5/10
Latha (Rekha) who is running her father's business empire after he suffered a debilitating stroke, receives a call from a mysterious stranger Raji, threatening to reveal embarrassing details about her father unless she pays up Rs. 500,000. Since she has no idea how to deal with the blackmailer, she turns to Capt. Hariharan who runs a detective agency for help. Things take a grim turn when Raji, and then Latha's cousin Suresh, both turn up murdered one after the other. The evidence unearthed by Hariharan seems to implicate either Latha or her sister Malini - but are the girls up to murder to protect their dad's good name?
Oru Naal Varum
4.9/10
Oru Naal Varum is a cat and mouse game where the life of a corrupt government official takes some intriguing topsy-turvy turns. With the magical combo of Mohanlal and Sreenivasan in action, there are times when the movie reminds us of some of their glorious years together, on screen
Season
7.6/10
Season is a 1989 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed Padmarajan, starring Mohanlal and Gavin Packard in lead roles. The film, though a failure at the box office, stands apart because of Padmarajan's story-telling style, unconventional plot and characters, realistic portrayal of drug trade in Kovalam and flawless performance of Mohanlal and is considered now as a cult classic. The story is set in the beautiful locales of Kovalam beach in Kerala and Poojappura Central Prison, Trivandrum. In spite of the film's commercial failure at the time, Season is now considered to be amongst the best revenge thriller classics ever made in Malayalam and Mohanlal's performance in the movie stands apart because of his unconventional style of acting in such a complex plot. The film also showed how narration can be used as a strong tool in storytelling. Many feel that this movie was much ahead of time and if it would have released in late nineties, would have done good business.
The Godman
5/10
Amarnath (Mammootty), a police officer, tries to settle a communal riot that takes place among fishermen. However, he faces many challenges when he tries to bring the criminals to justice.
Thalappavu
7.5/10
Thalappavu (English: The Headgear ) is a 2008 Malayalam film based on the story of Naxal Varghese and Police Constable P. Ramachandran Pillai, directed by Madhupal and written by Babu Janardhanan. The film portrays the social and political issues of the Naxalite era of the 1970s in Kerala.
Karimpin Poovinakkare
7/10
The film revolves around the life and revenge of a few villagers against each other.
