Commissioner

<p>Bharathchandran, an honest and brash of , bust down a gold smuggling racket at the docks and clearly has an issue with authority and breaths fire each time when he encounters a political arm bender like Kunju Moideen Sahib, whose gang was involved in the bust, but his mentor Balachandran evidently shields him from the wrath of the political brass. Mohan Thomas is a -based with a strong political clout and a clear sociopathic agenda. He had entrusted Sahib with the gold, which was confiscated by Bharathchandran. Along with gold smuggling, Mohan Thomas is also the leading kingpin of an unholy nexus of politicians, assassins and various officials, including two high ranking cops, Rajan Felix, Vigilance and Menon, who are involved in instigating , , and large scale distribution of . Bharathchandran and Mohan Thomas are set on a collision course when Mohan and Co. brutally murder Mahendran, the chairman of the Poovanthura commission, who possess evidence that could potentially incriminate Rajan Felix and Menon for their direct involvement in communal riots at Poovanthura. Bharathchandran is not only assigned to investigate the homicide, but also posted as the police commissioner of . Assisted by two dynamic and brash Prasad Menon and Mohammed Iqbal, Bharathchandran tries to solve the mystery, but soon to hit a dead-end. Bharathchandran’s fiancée Indu, a lawyer, tips him off about the news clip on an assault on a drunk police constable Gopinathan, who also was coincidentally the security for Justice Mahendran. In an attempt to take Sunny, Mohan’s younger brother, who had assaulted the constable within the college premises, results in a massive as well as a standoff with Rajan Felix, who tries to save Sunny by trying to take him into his custody, claiming previous charges. The only clue that is left with Bharathchandran and crew are based on Vattapara Pithamparan, a trade who tips-off that Sunny had actually attacked Gopinath because of Gopinath’s comment on counterfeit currency. With this vital clue, Bharathchandran unearths more dirt on Mohan Thomas & Co. Bharathchandran arrests Srilatha Varma, Mohan’s legal advisor and mistress, but is brutally murdered in a hotel elevator by Wilfred Vincent Baston, a -based assassin, who had also murdered Justice Mahendran. Bharathchandran is successful in nabbing Antony Ignatius Pimento, Wilfred’s right-hand man, and zeroes in on Wilfred. Bharathchandran stages a coup by arresting Rajan Felix and Menon, who are brutally tortured to reveal details on their alliance with Mohan Thomas and also sheds light on their agenda. Iqbal is killed brutally in an attempt to arrest Wilfred. This enrages Bharathchandran, who later brutally kills Wilfred and Mohan Thomas at an outhouse by torching the whole house, thus taking the law into his own hands. Most of the film was shot extensively in and around and its outskirts. Most of the scenes were shot in the same locations as that of (1993). was released in April 1994 coinciding the festivals. The film became a major commercial success in Kerala box office. The film was also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu, both versions were box office success. The Telugu version, , the most successful among the two, ran for more than 100 days in , which was also a success in . and in the book wrote “Suresh Gopi’s performance, embodying the fascist machismo of the honest and committed police officer, made him a Malayalam superstar.” The characters and portrayed by and are considered to be the most iconic characters in . A sequel to this film, , was released in 2005, directed by Renji Panicker himself, which was also a commercial success. A crossover film titled was released in 2012, but became a box office failure.</p>