''Bharathchandran I.P.S'' is a 2005 Indian Malayalam-language

action drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super- ...

written, directed and produced by

Renji Panicker Renji Panicker (born 23 September 1960) is an Indian actor, scriptwriter, director, film producer, and journalist best known for his Malayalam films. He made his debut as a director with '' Bharatchandran IPS'' in 2005. Early life He did h ...

. It is a sequel to the

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action film '' Commissioner'' and

Suresh Gopi Suresh Gopi (born 26 June 1958) is an Indian actor, politician, playback singer and television presenter. He works predominantly in Malayalam cinema and has also appeared in some Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bollywood films. Suresh made his act ...

reprises the title character. It also features Sai Kumar, Rajan P. Dev,

Mamukkoya Mamukkoya (born 5 July 1946) is an Indian actor known for his work in Malayalam cinema, and has also appeared in French film ''Flammens of Paradise''. He has mostly appeared in comedic roles. His unique usage of the Mappila dialect and style ma ...

, Shreya Reddy, and

Lalu Alex Lalu Alex is an Indian actor who works in Malayalam cinema. In a career spanning four decades, Lalu Alex has acted over 250 movies and is known for his character roles, comic roles and antagonistic roles in Malayalam movie industry. Lalu Alex ...

in supporting roles. The background score was composed by C. Rajamani. The film was a major commercial success at the box office and ran for more than 100 days In this film, Bharatchandran IPS, a righteous city police commissioner does not mind assaulting even his superior officers and powerful politicians while staging a one-man-fight against the corrupt political machinery prevailing in the state.

Plot

After killing Mohan Thomas to avenge his colleague Muhammad Iqbal's death. Commissioner Bharathchandran gets acquitted from suspension and gets married with his girlfriend Indu and leads a happy life, until Indu is murdered by Mohan Thomas's goons, where Bharathchandran decide to raises his 10 year-old daughter who amusingly named as Indu, all by himself. ''Mayambaram'' Baba, an iconic Muslim leader in Malabar,

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is murdered by a hired assassin named Kala Purohit Khan, amidst tight security in the premises of a special court in

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where he was supposed to give evidence about the foul play behind an earlier

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by ''Janab'' Hyderali Hassan, who runs a

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. Hyderali felt that their existence would be questioned if Baba reveals the truths about the communal riots incited by them. As a matter of fact, the communal riots following Baba's murder are triggered and intensified by Hyderali himself, to throw the region into a state of chaos. Hyderali has other sinister motives also, like having the huge amount of land left behind by the fleeing population to himself for building a private

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through which he hopes to pump illicit

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, drug trade and smuggling arms into the state. The state's CM Thomas Chacko, entrusts the investigation of Mayambaram Baba's murder to Bharathchandran. Bharathchandran, along with officers ASP Anwar and

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Pookkoya report to IG Habib Basheer, who is entrusted as a guardian to Bharathchandran after the death of Bharathchandran's former mentor and I.G Balachandran. Bharathchandran works his way into the hierarchy of the Hyderali syndicate, starting with Shweta Nachappa, a Karnataka cop, who was on duty on the day of Baba's murder and actually seemed to know that he would be murdered earlier. Hyderali kills Shweta after he finds out that Bharathchandran is trailing her. Later, It is revealed that Thomas Chacko is also in cahoots with Hyderali. Habib Basheer is killed while trying to save Bharathchandran from Kala Purohit's gang. Enraged, Bharatchandran confronts Hyderali and also brings the captured Kala Purohit, with Anwar and Pookkoya's help. Bharathchandran gives an empty revolver to Kala Purohit and asks him to shoot Hyderali. Kala tries to shoot Bharathchandran, but is later killed by Bharathchandran, who soon kills Hyderali in front of a frightened Thomas Chacko.

Cast

as DIG Bharath Chandran IPS, City Police Commissioner *

as IG Habeeb Basheer IPS * Sai Kumar as Janab Hyderali Hassan * Rajan P. Dev as

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Pookkoya * Shreya Reddy as SP Hema Viswanath IPS * Madhu Warrier as ASP Anwar IPS * Vijayaraghavan as Thomas Chacko,

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* Akhila as Swetha Nachappa IPS *

as Kunjeeswaran Pillai * Niranjana as Indu (Daughter of Bharathchandran) * Prabha Dutt as Jasmine Mary Cherian *

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as Subhadra Habeeb * Nivia Rebin as Habeeb's daughter *

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as IG Rajan Koshy IPS *

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as MLA Mayin Kutty *

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as Kala Purohit Khan * Kollam Ajith as Udayan shetty * V. K. Sreeraman as Mayamparam Baba *

Kozhikode Narayanan Nair Kozhikode Narayanan Nair is an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema, who has acted in more than 300 films. He entered the "Malayalam" movie industry (Mollywood) through a drama troupe. His first film was ''Aabhijathyam'' (1970), and he is also reme ...

as Shekharji *

Ravindran Madhavan Raveendran ( ml, മാധവൻ രവീന്ദ്രൻ ), (born Kulathupuzha, Kollam, 9 November 1943 – died Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 3 March 2005), fondly known as ''Raveendran Master'', was a popular South Indian music composer ...

as Devan Menon, Customs Officer *

T. P. Madhavan T. P. Madhavan (born 7 November 1935) is an Indian actor who appeared in Malayalam films. He started acting at the age of 40. He has acted in more than 600 films. He came into the film industry playing villain roles; later he started doing com ...

as Vakkalam Moosa (Minister) *

Balachandran Chullikkadu Balachandran Chullikkad (born 30 July 1957) is an Indian poet, orator, lyricist and actor in Malayalam-language. Early life Balachandran was born in Paravur, Ernakulam, Kerala, India. He completed his graduation in English literature from the ...

as Mudoor Sidhan * Meghna Nair as Lekha * Priyanka as Susheela *

Santhakumari Santha Kumari (born Vellaala Subbamma; 17 May 1920 – 16 January 2006) was an Indian musical artist and actress. She was married to the Telugu film director and producer P. Pullayya. Early years Vellaala Subbamma was born in Proddatur town, ...

Ratheesh Ratheesh (1954–2002) was an Indian actor best known for his work in Malayalam cinema. He was a native of Kalavoor in the Alappuzha district of Kerala, India. He performed villainous roles during the 1990s. He had acted in 158 films with dir ...

as Mohan Thomas (mentioned only) *

Shobhana Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai (born 21 March 1970) is an Indian actress and Bharatanatyam dancer. She acts predominantly in Malayalam films along with Telugu and Tamil films with few Hindi, Kannada and English films. She has won two National Fi ...

as Indu Kurup (mentioned only) * M. G. Soman as I. G. Balachandran (mentioned only)

Box office

The film was commercial success. In 7 days, it collection 2.5 crore in distributor's share from 50 screens, which was a record at the time.

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{{IMDb title, 0463429 2005 films 2005 action thriller films 2000s Malayalam-language films Indian sequel films TheKingCommi3 Films set in Kerala Films set in Karnataka Fictional portrayals of the Kerala Police Indian action drama films