''Red Indians'' is a 1999 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 ...

-language action drama film directed by

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and written by Sankaranarayanan from a story by Sunil. It stars

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, Vikram and

Preetha Vijayakumar Preetha Hari (née Preetha Vijayakumar) is an Indian businesswoman and former actress who predominantly acted in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. After her marriage to film director Hari, she retired from the film industry in 2002. Career P ...

Plot

A forest smuggler named Wayanadan, lives in the jungle and smuggles sandalwood. He is also involved in other anti-social behaviour and forest crimes like robberies, dacoity, murders and drug peddling. He consequently kidnaps an electrician, Rahul, and takes him to the jungle, forcing him to teach him to make explosives. Rahul refuses to help create bombs and is subsequently falsely accused of murder. The rest of the story is about how Rahul proves his innocence to police investigators.

Cast

;Tamil version

Soundtrack

;Malayalam version Soundtrack was composed by S. P. Venkatesh. *"Hoyyare Hoyyare" - Sujatha, Sindhu *"I Love You" -

Anuradha Sriram Anuradha Sriram (' Mohan; born 9 July 1970) is an Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 3500 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali ...

, Sriram *"Kannadipuzha" - Biju Narayanan *"Pakalmazha Pozhiyumoru" -

Chithra Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963) is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. In a career spanning around five decades, she has recorded over 25,000 Songs in various Indian languages languages such as Tamil, Kann ...

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;Tamil version Tamil version contains new set of songs composed by Adithyan. *"Gang Gang" -

Yugendran Yugendran (born Yugendran Vasudevan on 20 December 1976) is an Indian actor and playback singer who has sung several songs in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. He is also an occasional music director and television host. Personal life Yugendran i ...

*"Elukondala" -

Manikka Vinayagam Manikka Vinayagam (10 December 1943 – 26 December 2021) was an Indian playback singer and actor. He sang for South Indian language films and acted in several Tamil films as a character artist. He was the son of the dancer Vazhuvoor B. Ramiah ...

*"Izhutha" - Lavanya *"Bhangra" -

Malgudi Subha Malgudi Subha (born 17 October 1965; also spelled as Malgadi Shuba) is an Indian playback singer. She has recorded songs in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi. In a career spanning two decades, she has sung more than 3000 songs. She ...

Release

The film was originally released in Malayalam in December 1999; later it was dubbed and re-released in Tamil as ''Thilak'' with two reshot songs and a comedy track featuring

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in June 2004. It was also dubbed and released in Telugu under the same name.

References

External links

* 1990s Malayalam-language films 1999 action films {{1990s-Malayalam-film-stub