''Sathyam (transl.Truth)'' is a 2004 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

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film written and directed by

Vinayan T. G. Vinayakumar, professionally credited as Vinayan, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, and lyricist, who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema and occasionally in Tamil cinema. He has directed 40 Malayalam films and 4 Tami ...

, starring

Prithviraj Sukumaran Prithviraj Sukumaran (Help:IPA/Malayalam, /pr̩t̪ʰʋiɾaːd͡ʒ/; born 16 October 1982) is an Indian actor, producer, director, and playback singer who primarily works in Malayalam cinema, in addition to Tamil cinema, Tamil, Bollywood, Hin ...

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Taruni Sachdev Taruni Sachdev (14 May 1998 – 14 May 2012) was an Indian child actress. She made her film debut in 2004 with '' Vellinakshatram'', which endeared her to Malayalam audiences. The same year, she appeared in '' Sathyam'' and she act the lead role ...

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and

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. This was

's debut film in

and the last Malayalam film of

. The film generated positive reviews upon released praising Prithviraj's performances and became a blockbuster The film was loosely inspired by the

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film ''

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'' (2001), starring Chiyaan Vikram.

Plot

The story circles around Sanjeev Kumar who is awaiting his selection into the police force. But it was being delayed by the Police Commissioner Mambilli Mukundan Menon, who is backed up by his political and underground relationships and has a grudge against Sanjeev's father Ayyappan Nair. When things go beyond a limit, Sanjeev gets fed up, and locks up Mukundan in a secret location. Sanjeev gets selected for the police force and joins as a Sub-Inspector near his home town, and gets a lot of praise for his work in curbing crime in the city. In the meantime, Mukundan manages to escape the secret location. Sanjeev manages to prove that Mukundan is insane and puts him in an asylum. But he faces many obstacles. His wife Sona and he gets

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by Mukundan's men and his younger brother Prakash during a fight when they were kidnapping Sona. Sanjeev kills Prakash and saves Sona. His niece Chinnukutty and Ayyappan gets kidnapped by Mukundan and his men and Mukundan kills Ayyappan. Sanjeev fights off Mukundan and his men. Sanjeev kills Mukundan and saves Chinnukutty.

Cast

as SI A. Sanjeev Kumar (Sanju) *

as City Police Commissioner Mambally Mukundan Menon IPS, the main antagonist *

as Head Constable 'Sathyavan' Ayyappan Nair, Sanjeev's Father *

as Sona, Sanjeev's lover turned wife *

as Chinnukutty, Sanjeev's niece * Rajeev as Minister Mambally Madhavan Menon * Suresh Krishna as Mambally Prakash Menon *

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as ACP James Manjooran IPS *

Captain Raju Raju Daniel (27 June 1950 – 17 September 2018), better known by his stage name Captain Raju, was an Indian actor and army officer. He acted in more than 600 films in various languages, including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, an ...

as City Police Commissioner * Aniyappan as Balan, Sanjeev's Friend *

Venu Nagavally Venu Nagavally (16 April 1949 – 10 September 2010) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and director best known for his work in Malayalam film industry. He has directed 12 films. Son of writer, commentator, and broadcaster Nagavally R. S. Kuru ...

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as ASI Kunjiraman *

Kochu Preman Kalaramathil Shivaraman Premkumar (1 June 1955 – 3 December 2022), better known by his stage name Kochu Preman, was an Indian actor who worked in Malayalam film industry. He acted in more than 250 films, mainly in supporting and comedy role ...

as Police Constable Menon * Baburaj as

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Martin *

Kollam Thulasi Kollam Kanjaveli Kuttilazhikathu Thulasidharan Nair is an actor in Malayalam cinema, who is better known as Kollam Thulasi relating to the name of his birthplace Kollam to his first name as customary in some parts of Kerala Kerala ( , ...

as ACP Anirudan IPS * K. P. A. C. Saji as CI Yousuf * Bindu Ramakrishnan as Sanjeev's Mother * Ramya Salim as Sanjeev's Sister * Poornima Anand as Rajalakshmi, Mukundan's wife * Babu Swamy as Raman Nair, Sona's father * Manka Mahesh as Sona's mother *

Mafia Sasi Mafia Sasi, aka Sasidharan, is an Indian athlete and stuntman mainly in Malayalam movies. He has performed stunts in all South Indian languages for more than 1000 films. He performed stunts in the movie ''Mafia'', which became a super hit, and h ...

as Gunda Das *

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as Gopala Pillai / G. P. Pillai

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack contains six songs, all composed by M. Jayachandran. Lyrics were by

Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, popularly known as Kaithapram, is a Malayalam lyricist, poet, music director, actor, singer, screenwriter, music therapist and performer of Carnatic music. He debuted with the movie Ennennum Kannettante in 19 ...

and S. Ramesan Nair .

References

External links

* 2004 films 2000s Malayalam-language films Films directed by Vinayan Films scored by M. Jayachandran {{2000s-Malayalam-film-stub