''Chess'' is a 2006 Indian Malayalam-language revenge action thriller film directed by Raj Babu. Dileep plays the male protagonist and Bhavana is his heroine. The film also stars

Ashish Vidyarthi Ashish Vidyarthi (born 19 June 1962) is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English, Odia, Marathi and Bengali films. He is noted for his antagonist and character roles. In 1995, he received t ...

, Jagathy Sreekumar, Harisree Ashokan and Vijayaraghavan and Rajyalakshmi. The movie was dubbed into Hindi as Aag Ka Dariya. This is one of the very few movies which has a linearly dubbed version.

Plot

Vijayakrishnan ( Dileep) is an ordinary boy who longs for his father's love. After his father's premeditated death, as the only heir to all his father's property, he is betrayed by his trusted lawyer who confirms his documents as fake. The people who are after Vijayakrishnan's father's wealth, murders his mother in front of him by dousing her with gasoline and burning her. Vijayakrishnan is then beaten unconscious by them. To get his revenge on the criminals that killed his parents and discredited him from his wealth, Vijayakrishnan pretends to be blind and deceives them, one by one. The incident happened after that shapes the rest of the film.

Cast

* Dileep as Vijayakrishnan * Bhavana as Dr. Radhika *

as SP Swaminathan * Jagathy Sreekumar as Constable Narayanan * Salim Kumar as Unnikrishnan * Harisree Ashokan as Kallan Bhaskaran * Mohan Jose as Vasu * Kalasala Babu as Doctor Sukumaran Marar * Vijayaraghavan as Commissioner Devarajan * Bheeman Raghu as SI Koshy * Baburaj as CI Sarath * Suresh Krishna as Adv. Raj Mohan * Sai Kumar as Krishnadas I.P.S * Janardhanan as Easwara Varma * Jagannatha Varma as D.I.G. of Police * Madhupal as Adv. Mathew Varghese * Rajalakshmi as Rajalakshmi, Vijayakrishnan's mother * Kunchan as Eye Specialist Siddharthan *

Baby Nayanthara Nayanthara Chakravarthy (born 20 April 2002), also known as Baby Nayanthara, is an Indian actress who works in Malayalam cinema. She has acted in Malayalam, Telugu language, Telugu, Hindi and Tamil language, Tamil-language Films, and has establi ...

as Achu, Swaminathan's Daughter *Dimple Rose as Radhika's Friend

Soundtrack

The movie features a soundtrack composed by Berny Ignatius and lyrics written by Vayalar Sarathchandra Varma

Reception

Paresh C Palicha from Rediff , says that "Dileep. With Chess, he has brought in a seriousness to his brand of filmmaking, the only grouse being that there should been a tighter script to support him. Bhavana, as the love interest, has some significance in the beginning, but it is totally lost by the end of the film. Salim Kumar and Harisree Asokan handle the comic department proficiently. Ashish Vidyarthi, Vijayraghavan, Bheeman Raghu and Babu Raj play typical villains without too much of a fuss" Sify.com wrote that "It is an out and out Dileep film. He is there in almost all frames and makes the film work. He has been successful in shedding his comedy image and tries a serious revenge drama. So if you are game to watch a film that?s different from the usual Dileep entertainers, try out Chess. It is a deep, dark tale of revenge, with a unique ending" A critic from ''The Hindu'' said that "Rajbabu, director, has presented a thriller with no suspense. All the moves made by the hero are predictable".

References

External links

* * 2000s Malayalam-language films Films scored by Berny–Ignatius {{2000s-Malayalam-film-stub