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Vartha - Wikipedia

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Vartha
Poster

Malayalam	വാർത്ത

Directed by	I. V. Sasi
Written by	T. Damodaran
Produced by	P. V. Gangadharan
Starring	Mammootty Mohanlal Rahman Seema Venu Nagavally K. P. A. C. Lalitha Prathapachandran
Cinematography	Jayanan Vincent
Edited by	K. Narayanan
Music by	A. T. Ummer
Production company	Grihalakshmi Productions
Release date	28 February 1986 (1986-02-28)
Running time	163 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Vartha (transl. News) is a 1986 Indian Malayalam-language film, directed by I. V. Sasi and produced by P. V. Gangadharan. The film stars Mammootty, Mohanlal, Rahman, Seema, Venu Nagavally, K. P. A. C. Lalitha and Prathapachandran. The film has musical score by A. T. Ummer. The film was successful at the box office.^[1]^[2] The film was remade in Tamil as Palaivana Rojakkal (1986),^[3] and in Hindi as Jai Shiv Shankar (1990), which never released.^[4]

Plot

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Cast

Mammootty as Madhavan Kutty
Mohanlal as Parol Vasu
Rahman as Unnikrishnan
Seema as Radha Menon IAS
Nalini as Vasanthi
Venu Nagavally as Devan
Prathapachandran as Nambeeshan
Devan as Revenue Minister Philip
T. G. Ravi as Manikyam Kumar
Janardhanan as James
K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Kunjulakshmi
Manavalan Joseph as Constable
Jagannatha Varma as Kurup
Babu Namboothiri as Venu
Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair as Keshavan Nair
K. P. A. C. Sunny as Enforcement Officer
K. P. A. C. Azeez as City Police Commissioner
Balan K. Nair as Forest Minister
Kuthiravattam Pappu as Hamsa
Kundara Johny as Francis
Paravoor Bharathan as Bharathan
Kunjandi as Pachu Pillai
Nellikode Bhaskaran as Radha's Relative
Sonia as Young Radha
Santhakumari as Ammukutty
K. T. C. Abdullah uncredited roll
Baskara Kurup as Hajyar
V. Ramachandran as Engineer Sahadevan

Themes

Sreedhar Pillai wrote for India Today, "Vartha had overtly political themes, parodying events and politicians in a manner that left little to the imagination. I. V. Sasi told him, "I always have a rough commercial framework for my political films, Then I look around and talk to a lot of people about current political happenings. These, when mixed in the right proportion can give you an instant hit."^[5]

Release

The film was released on 12 February 1986. It was a commercial success, running for 150 days in theatres.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14] The film was the third highest grossing Malayalam film of 1986.^[5]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by A. T. Ummer and the lyrics were written by Bichu Thirumala.^[15]

Song	Singers
"Innalekal"	K. J. Yesudas
"Salilam Sruthisaagaram"	K. J. Yesudas, Ashalatha

Awards

Filmfare Award for Best Film - Malayalam won by P. V. Gangadharan (1986)^[16]^[17]

References

^ "Architect of blockbusters". The Hindu. 26 April 2013. Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
^ "Saluting the maker of super hits". The Hindu. 13 April 2013. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
^ "Sibiraj is all set to make it big!". Sify. 7 November 2004. Archived from the original on 2 November 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
^ Bhattacharjee, Moumita (7 April 2021). "Jeetendra Birthday Special: Not Akshay Kumar or Salman Khan, But The Veteran Actor Is The King Of Remakes - Here's How". LatestLY. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
^ ^a ^b Pillai, Sreedhar (28 February 1987). "Malayalam film makers in Kerala transposes real life into reel life". India Today. Archived from the original on 11 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
^ "170th day". Archived from the original on 15 March 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
^ "Architect of blockbusters". The Hindu. 26 April 2013. Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
^ "Saluting the maker of super hits". The Hindu. 13 April 2013. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
^ "I.V. Sasi reigned at the box office, and made classics too". The Hindu. 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
^ C S Venkiteswaran (8 November 2017). "Trendsetting titan". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
^ "IV Sasi: the hitmaker who discovered Mammootty, the actor". Malayala Manorama. 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
^ "The End of an Epoch". The Hindu. 26 October 2017. Archived from the original on 13 October 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
^ "They too stirred up a hornet's nest: Pre-social media Malayalam films that sparked controversy". The New Indian Express. 18 February 2018. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
^ "ഇറങ്ങിയിട്ട് 35 വർഷം! മമ്മൂട്ടി-മോഹൻലാൽ ചിത്രത്തിന്‍റെ പരസ്യം ഇപ്പോഴും കോഴിക്കോട്ടെ ഓവർ ബ്രിഡ്ജിൽ!". News18 (in Malayalam). 28 February 2021. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
^ "വാര്‍ത്ത (1986)". Malayalasangeetham.info (in Malayalam). Archived from the original on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
^ "The Awards". Filmfare. 1–5 October 1987. p. 72. Archived from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
^ "Filmfare awards announced". The Indian Express. 17 July 1987. p. 5. Retrieved 21 August 2023.

External links

Vartha at IMDb

Films directed by I. V. Sasi

Malayalam

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