''Ivar'' is a 2003 Indian

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

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film written and directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar and produced by

Santhosh Damodharan Santhosh Damodharan is an Indian film producer, Film distributor, distributor and actor who predominantly works in the Malayalam cinema, Malayalam film industry. He owns the production house Damor Cinema. He is best known for producing ''Pakalppo ...

under the banner Damor Cinema. The film is loosely based on the Hong Kong crime thriller ''Infernal Affairs''.

Jayaram Jayaram Subramaniam, (born 10 December 1965), is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema, in addition to Tamil cinema, Tamil, Telugu cinema, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Sanskrit, and Bhojpuri language films. He is also a chenda ...

plays the protagonist and Biju Menon is the antagonist. The film also stars

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, Siddique, Janardhanan and

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. The film was mostly shot in Steadicam by the cinematographer of the film Madhu Neelakandan, and was edited by

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Plot

Ivar is an action movie. The movie is all about the underworld, goons and the mafia. Jose, known as Pambu Jose (Biju Menon), is a dreaded underworld don and his rival is Minnal Thankan (P.Balachandran). Jose's close aide is Ninja Hakkim (Anil Murali) and gun moll is Rita (Devi Ajith) along with blind man Vinayakan (Vinayakan). Raghava Menon (Jayaram), a police officer gets into the gang and becomes close to Jose like Hakkim. No one knows that Raghava Menon's goal is to wipe out the mafia. Raghava Menon works in tandem with the DGP (Janardhanan). The DGP's daughter Nandini (Bhavana) is in love with Menon. Menon uses the underworld rivalry and gathers information on police informers and those on the take to create havoc in mafia camps.

Cast

as Ragahva Menon IPS, City Police Commissioner * Biju Menon as Paambu Jose (lit. Snake Jose) *

as Nandini * Devi Ajith as Reetha *

Anil Murali Anil Murali ( – 30 July 2020) was an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more than 200 films. He started out in the film industry as a villain before later taking on character roles. He died on 30 July 2020, as a result of liver ...

as Hakkim, Jose's right hand and henchmen *

Vinayakan Vinayakan is an Indian actor, former dancer, and composer who predominantly works in Malayalam films apart from some Tamil language, Tamil language films. He started his career with a cameo appearance in the 1995 film ''Maanthrikam''. Vinayakan ...

as Vinayakan * Siddique as Jacob Mathew IPS,

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* Janardhanan as S.K.Nair IPS, Director General of Police *

as Prem Kumar IPS,

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Anoop Menon Anoop Menon (born 3 August 1976) is an Indian actor, director, screenwriter and lyricist. He worked in television before acting in Malayalam films and has acted in more than 75 films. Menon won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Supporting ...

as Thomas IPS,

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as Mrs. Hakkim * P. Balachandran as Minnal Thankachan * Rajesh Hebbar as "Alambu" Rajan, Thankachan's henchmen * Poornima Anand as Jose's wife * Lishoy as Circle Inspector *

Kalasala Babu Kalasala Babu (1950 14 May 2018) was an Indian actor who performed on stage, and in television serials and films. On stage Babu had been acting in radio plays while at college. Following his graduation in 1973, Babu acted in ''Paanchajanyam ...

as Chief Minister * J. Pallassery *

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as Home Minister

References

External links

* 2003 films 2000s Malayalam-language films Films scored by Srinivas Films directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar {{2000s-Malayalam-film-stub