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	== Plot ==		== Plot ==
	Siddharth ([[Dulquer Salmaan]]) is a young man who gets extremely angry, very quickly, as shown in flashback where when a kid hits his nose with finger to make fun of his anger issues, the kid gets beaten badly, nose bleeding. Then in college, a student gang from another college hits Sidharth's friend. For this Sidharth beats all the students of the gang with extra beating for those who hit him. He is married to Anjali ([[Sai Pallavi]]) by ~~register~~ marriage. Through his friends he gets work in a bank in Kochi. Sidharth is always at odds with his house owner's grandson. Sidharth gets angry and shuts off the main electricity switch when a this kid comes to Sidharth's house and puts TV volume very high in spite of Sidharth's request to reduce the volume of the TV. While leaving the house, the kid questions his behavior. For this Sidharth tells Anjali how the kid is behaving without respect. Then Anjali tells Sidharth that the kid is right, that he should control his anger for which anger management schools can be attended.		Siddharth ([[Dulquer Salmaan]]) is a young man who gets extremely angry, very quickly, as shown in the flashback where when a kid hits his nose with a finger to make fun of his anger issues, the kid gets beaten badly, nose bleeding. Then in college, a student gang from another college hits Sidharth's friend. For this, Sidharth beats all the students of the gang with extra beating for those who hit him. He is married to Anjali ([[Sai Pallavi]]) by registered marriage. Through his friends, he gets work in a bank in Kochi. Sidharth is always at odds with his house owner's grandson. Sidharth gets angry and shuts off the main electricity switch when a this kid comes to Sidharth's house and puts the TV volume very high in spite of Sidharth's request to reduce the volume of the TV. While leaving the house, the kid questions his behavior. For this, Sidharth tells Anjali how the kid is behaving without respect. Then Anjali tells Sidharth that the kid is right, that he should control his anger for which anger management schools can be attended.

	Anjali parents want them to come for Anjali's brother's engagement. Anjali mother only calls and speaks to Anjali. Anjali tells her to make her father call Sidharth. The mother agrees. Sidharth keeps a ball for anger management in the workplace by which he ~~concentrate~~ to bring down his anger when he ~~encounter~~ foolish customers.		Anjali's parents want them to come for Anjali's brother's engagement. Anjali's mother only calls and speaks to Anjali. Anjali tells her to make her father call Sidharth. The mother agrees. Sidharth keeps a ball for anger management in the workplace by which he concentrates to bring down his anger when he encounters foolish customers.

	There are numerous instances where Sidharth's anger takes the better of him. In one such instance where Sidharth hits his colleague at a annual function of his bank and after reaching home early due to this incident at the function, shouts at Anjali's father, thinking he is a random person calling Anjali on phone, she leaves mentioning she cannot live with such a person. Siddharth offers to drive her home in [[Mudumalai National Park\|Masinagudi]] in [[Tamil Nadu]]. On the way, a trucker named Chakkara, overtakes their car without warning ~~that~~ almost causes them to crash. A furious Siddharth follows the truck and the incident turns into a road rage. He successfully overtakes the truck but a shaken Anjali begs him to let it go. He obeys her and they continue on their way when Anjali informs him that she is hungry. They stop by a roadside hotel which is run by a ruthless gangster, John ([[Vinayakan]]), and his henchmen. The couple ~~realise~~ that Chakkara is also one of ~~Jhon~~'s henchmen. Sidharth gets in trouble with the hotel staff again for his temper. While eating, Sidharth finds out that Chakkara is interested in Anjali and doesn't take his eyes off her. Sidharth was about to get into a fight with Chakkara but Anjali stops him. After the food, as both of them realize they don't have cash to pay, the hotel staff suggest one of them go and fetch cash from the nearby ATM. As Anjali cannot stay back alone, she agrees to go even though she is not good at driving their car.		There are numerous instances where Sidharth's anger takes the better of him. In one such instance where Sidharth hits his colleague at an annual function of his bank and, after reaching home early due to this incident at the function, shouts at Anjali's father, thinking he is a random person calling Anjali on the phone, she leaves mentioning she cannot live with such a person. Siddharth offers to drive her home in [[Mudumalai National Park\|Masinagudi]] in [[Tamil Nadu]]. On the way, a trucker named Chakkara, overtakes their car without warning, which almost causes them to crash. A furious Siddharth follows the truck and the incident turns into a road rage. He successfully overtakes the truck, but a shaken Anjali begs him to let it go. He obeys her, and they continue on their way when Anjali informs him that she is hungry. They stop by a roadside hotel which is run by a ruthless gangster, John ([[Vinayakan]]), and his henchmen. The couple realises that Chakkara is also one of John's henchmen. Sidharth gets in trouble with the hotel staff again for his temper. While eating, Sidharth finds out that Chakkara is interested in Anjali and doesn't take his eyes off her. Sidharth was about to get into a fight with Chakkara, but Anjali stops him. After the food, as both of them realize they don't have the cash to pay, the hotel staff suggest one of them go and fetch cash from the nearby ATM. As Anjali cannot stay back alone, she agrees to go even though she is not good at driving their car.

	A while after she leaves, Chakkara too leaves the restaurant while a fearful Siddharth tries to contact Anjali. Anjali too is unable to contact Siddharth due to network failure and she fails to find any ATM. Behind her, she notices Chakkara's truck following her and applying ~~horn~~ and irritating in order to scare her so that she cannot drive the car in the middle of the lonely road. She continues driving but is unable to escape as it is a one-way road.		A while after she leaves, Chakkara too leaves the restaurant while a fearful Siddharth tries to contact Anjali. Anjali, too is unable to contact Siddharth due to network failure, and she fails to find any ATM. Behind her, she notices Chakkara's truck following her and applying horns and irritating in order to scare her so that she cannot drive the car in the middle of the lonely road. She continues driving but is unable to escape as it is a one-way road.

	Meanwhile, Siddharth, after waiting for a long time and fearing Anjali's safety, tries to escape the restaurant but is captured by the henchmen and is locked in a room. Anjali keeps on driving with Chakkara right behind her. Another trucker who had noticed them two in the restaurant witnesses this.		Meanwhile, Siddharth, after waiting for a long time and fearing Anjali's safety, tries to escape the restaurant but is captured by the henchmen and is locked in a room. Anjali keeps on driving with Chakkara right behind her. Another trucker who had noticed them two in the restaurant witnesses this.

	Siddharth, now conscious, try to escape from the room and a young boy who was working in the restaurant opens the locked room to help him out. He steps into the middle of a gang fight. At the same time, Chakkara corners Anjali at a bend when her car gets stuck in the mud. He breaks the windows to rape Anjali and as he is about to drag her out of the car, the other trucker arrives on the scene with police which enables Anjali to escape from Chakkara's cruel intentions, ~~who~~ leaves that area seeing the light of police jeep at the far.		Siddharth, now conscious, try to escape from the room, and a young boy who was working in the restaurant opens the locked room to help him out. He steps into the middle of a gang fight. At the same time, Chakkara corners Anjali at a bend when her car gets stuck in the mud. He breaks the windows to rape Anjali, and as he is about to drag her out of the car, the other trucker arrives on the scene with police which enables Anjali to escape from Chakkara's cruel intentions, which leaves that area seeing the light of police jeep at the far.

	Anjali, with the help of the police, arrives back at the restaurant to find John critically injured and Siddharth with a knife. Siddharth is arrested and the police inform Anjali that he will be imprisoned if John dies. But John reports to the police that the previous owner of the hotel came with rowdy gang to beat John ending up in gang fight.		Anjali, with the help of the police, arrives back at the restaurant to find John critically injured and Siddharth with a knife. Siddharth is arrested, and the police inform Anjali that he will be imprisoned if John dies. But John reports to the police that the previous owner of the hotel came with the rowdy gang to beat John, ending up in a gang fight.

	Siddharth and Anjali drive to her house. On the way, she asks him why he had asked her to go alone and he confesses that he was really scared to leave her with them at the restaurant. He admits that it was his temper that got them into trouble and promises to work hard to control his anger issues, even though it cannot be done overnight. On the way, they see Chakkara and his truck which has broken down. Anjali stops the car and Siddharth, as the first step towards controlling his anger, decides to let him go but a furious Anjali refuses to forgive Chakkara. Siddharth steps out of the car with Anjali's existential approval to vent his anger one more time and runs in fury towards Chakkara. Chakkara takes an iron rod in his hand. But Siddharth runs to him while raising his fist and the screen cuts to black, signifying the end of the film.		Siddharth and Anjali drive to her house. On the way, she asks him why he had asked her to go alone, and he confesses that he was really scared to leave her with them at the restaurant. He admits that it was his temper that got them into trouble and promises to work hard to control his anger issues, even though it cannot be done overnight. On the way, they see Chakkara and his truck, which has broken down. Anjali stops the car, and Siddharth, as the first step towards controlling his anger, decides to let him go, but a furious Anjali refuses to forgive Chakkara. Siddharth steps out of the car with Anjali's existential approval to vent his anger one more time and runs in fury towards Chakkara. Chakkara takes an iron rod in his hand. But Siddharth runs to him while raising his fist, and the screen cuts to black, signifying the end of the film.

	== Cast ==		== Cast ==
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			==Adaptations==
			It has been remade in Kannada as ''[[Kidi (film)\|Kidi]]''.<ref>http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/kidi-kannada-remake-dulquer-s-kali-65957</ref> The film was dubbed and released into Telugu as ''Hey Pillagada'' in November 2017.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/sekhar-kammula-releases-logo-of-dulquer-sai-pallavi-hey-pillagada-telugu-news-193594\|title=Sekhar Kammula releases logo of Dulquer Sai Pallavi Hey Pillagada - Telugu Movie News - IndiaGlitz\|work=IndiaGlitz.com\|access-date=2017-08-22}}</ref>

	== Box office ==		== Box office ==

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{{Infobox film
| name = Kali
| image = Kali Malayalam Movie First Look Poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Sameer Thahir]]
| producer = [[Ashiq Usman]]<br>[[Shyju Khalid]]<br>[[Sameer Thahir]]
| writer = Rajesh Gopinadhan
| starring = [[Dulquer Salmaan]]<br>[[Sai Pallavi]]
| music = [[Gopi Sundar]]
| cinematography = [[Gireesh Gangadharan]]
| editing = [[Vivek Harshan]]
| studio = Hand Made Films
| distributor = Central Pictures
| released = {{Film date|2016|03|26|df=y}}
| runtime = 116 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Malayalam]]
| gross =
}}

'''''Kali''''' ({{translation|Rage}}) is a 2016 [[India]]n [[Malayalam]]-language [[action film]] directed and co-produced by [[Sameer Thahir]], starring [[Dulquer Salmaan]] and [[Sai Pallavi]].<ref>{{cite news|author1=Akhila Menon |title=Dulquer Salmaan-Sai Pallavi Starrer Titled 'Kali' |url=http://www.filmibeat.com/malayalam/news/2015/dulquer-salmaan-sai-pallavi-movie-kali-209454.html |date= 23 December 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lehren.com/news/malayalam/latest-news/malayalam-movie-starring-dulquer-salmaanand-sai-pallavi-titled-kali |title=Malayalam movie starring Dulquer Salmaan and Sai Pallavi is titled as 'Kali' }}</ref> It is the second collaboration of Thahir and Salmaan, after ''[[Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi]]'' (2013).<ref>{{cite news|author1=Anu James |title=Shooting of Dulquer Salmaan-Sai Pallavi's upcoming Sameer Thahir film begins |url=http://m.ibtimes.co.in/shooting-dulquer-salmaan-sai-pallavis-upcoming-sameer-thahir-film-begins-655005 |date=16 November 2015 }}</ref>

The film was shot in [[Kochi]], [[Vagamon]], [[Athirappilly]], Masinagudi, and [[Gudalur, Nilgiris|Gudalur]].<ref>{{cite news|author1= Sachin Jose |title=Sai Pallavi aka Malar to play lead opposite Dulquer Salmaan in Sameer Thahir film |url=http://m.ibtimes.co.in/sai-pallavi-aka-malar-play-lead-opposite-dulquer-salmaan-sameer-thahir-film-651367 |date=21 October 2015 }}</ref>

''Kali'' was released on 26 March 2016 to critical and commercial success.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Anu James |title=Dulquer Salmaan-Sai Pallavi's 'Kali' to be released in March |url=http://m.ibtimes.co.in/dulquer-salmaan-sai-pallavis-kali-be-released-march-664938 |date=29 January 2016}}</ref> It has since been remade in Kannada as ''[[Kidi (film)|Kidi]]''.<ref>http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/kidi-kannada-remake-dulquer-s-kali-65957</ref> The film was dubbed and released into Telugu as ''Hey Pillagada'' in November 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/sekhar-kammula-releases-logo-of-dulquer-sai-pallavi-hey-pillagada-telugu-news-193594|title=Sekhar Kammula releases logo of Dulquer Sai Pallavi Hey Pillagada - Telugu Movie News - IndiaGlitz|work=IndiaGlitz.com|access-date=2017-08-22}}</ref>

== Plot ==
Siddharth ([[Dulquer Salmaan]]) is a young man who gets extremely angry, very quickly, as shown in flashback where when a kid hits his nose with finger to make fun of his anger issues, the kid gets beaten badly, nose bleeding. Then in college, a student gang from another college hits Sidharth's friend. For this Sidharth beats all the students of the gang with extra beating for those who hit him. He is married to Anjali ([[Sai Pallavi]]) by register marriage. Through his friends he gets work in a bank in Kochi. Sidharth is always at odds with his house owner's grandson. Sidharth gets angry and shuts off the main electricity switch when a this kid comes to Sidharth's house and puts TV volume very high in spite of Sidharth's request to reduce the volume of the TV. While leaving the house, the kid questions his behavior. For this Sidharth tells Anjali how the kid is behaving without respect. Then Anjali tells Sidharth that the kid is right, that he should control his anger for which anger management schools can be attended.

Anjali parents want them to come for Anjali's brother's engagement. Anjali mother only calls and speaks to Anjali. Anjali tells her to make her father call Sidharth. The mother agrees. Sidharth keeps a ball for anger management in the workplace by which he concentrate to bring down his anger when he encounter foolish customers.

There are numerous instances where Sidharth's anger takes the better of him. In one such instance where Sidharth hits his colleague at a annual function of his bank and after reaching home early due to this incident at the function, shouts at Anjali's father, thinking he is a random person calling Anjali on phone, she leaves mentioning she cannot live with such a person. Siddharth offers to drive her home in [[Mudumalai National Park|Masinagudi]] in [[Tamil Nadu]]. On the way, a trucker named Chakkara, overtakes their car without warning that almost causes them to crash. A furious Siddharth follows the truck and the incident turns into a road rage. He successfully overtakes the truck but a shaken Anjali begs him to let it go. He obeys her and they continue on their way when Anjali informs him that she is hungry. They stop by a roadside hotel which is run by a ruthless gangster, John ([[Vinayakan]]), and his henchmen. The couple realise that Chakkara is also one of Jhon's henchmen. Sidharth gets in trouble with the hotel staff again for his temper. While eating, Sidharth finds out that Chakkara is interested in Anjali and doesn't take his eyes off her. Sidharth was about to get into a fight with Chakkara but Anjali stops him. After the food, as both of them realize they don't have cash to pay, the hotel staff suggest one of them go and fetch cash from the nearby ATM. As Anjali cannot stay back alone, she agrees to go even though she is not good at driving their car.

A while after she leaves, Chakkara too leaves the restaurant while a fearful Siddharth tries to contact Anjali. Anjali too is unable to contact Siddharth due to network failure and she fails to find any ATM. Behind her, she notices Chakkara's truck following her and applying horn and irritating in order to scare her so that she cannot drive the car in the middle of the lonely road. She continues driving but is unable to escape as it is a one-way road.

Meanwhile, Siddharth, after waiting for a long time and fearing Anjali's safety, tries to escape the restaurant but is captured by the henchmen and is locked in a room. Anjali keeps on driving with Chakkara right behind her. Another trucker who had noticed them two in the restaurant witnesses this.

Siddharth, now conscious, try to escape from the room and a young boy who was working in the restaurant opens the locked room to help him out. He steps into the middle of a gang fight. At the same time, Chakkara corners Anjali at a bend when her car gets stuck in the mud. He breaks the windows to rape Anjali and as he is about to drag her out of the car, the other trucker arrives on the scene with police which enables Anjali to escape from Chakkara's cruel intentions, who leaves that area seeing the light of police jeep at the far.

Anjali, with the help of the police, arrives back at the restaurant to find John critically injured and Siddharth with a knife. Siddharth is arrested and the police inform Anjali that he will be imprisoned if John dies. But John reports to the police that the previous owner of the hotel came with rowdy gang to beat John ending up in gang fight.

Siddharth and Anjali drive to her house. On the way, she asks him why he had asked her to go alone and he confesses that he was really scared to leave her with them at the restaurant. He admits that it was his temper that got them into trouble and promises to work hard to control his anger issues, even though it cannot be done overnight. On the way, they see Chakkara and his truck which has broken down. Anjali stops the car and Siddharth, as the first step towards controlling his anger, decides to let him go but a furious Anjali refuses to forgive Chakkara. Siddharth steps out of the car with Anjali's existential approval to vent his anger one more time and runs in fury towards Chakkara. Chakkara takes an iron rod in his hand. But Siddharth runs to him while raising his fist and the screen cuts to black, signifying the end of the film.

== Cast ==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Dulquer Salmaan]] as Siddharth
* [[Sai Pallavi]] as Anjali Siddharth
* [[Vinayakan]] as John
* [[Chemban Vinod Jose]] as Chakkara
* [[Soubin Shahir]] as Prakasan
* [[V. K. Prakash]] as Siddharth's father
* Sandhya Ramesh as Siddharth's mother
* [[Sidhartha Siva]] as Service Centre Manager
* Sandeep Narayanan as SI Senthil Kumar
* [[Vanitha Krishnachandran]] as Anjali's mother
* [[Dinesh Panicker]] as Anjali's father
* [[Kunchan (actor)|Kunchan]] as House Owner
* [[Alencier Ley Lopez]] as FD Customer
* [[Anjali Nair]] as House owner's daughter
* Master Ihman as House owner's grandson
* [[Hareesh Perumanna]] as Hamsa
* Imthiyaz Khader as Bank Manager
* Sini Abraham as Smitha
* Thanseel P. S. as Alex, Sidharth's friend
* Nebish Benson as Young Sidharath
* [[Vijilesh Karayad]] as Moped Guy
{{colend}}
* Vishnu purushan as Waiter Boy

== Soundtrack ==
The music is composed by [[Gopi Sunder]] and the soundtrack was released on 11 March 2016 by [[Satyam Audios]].<ref name="audio">{{cite news|last1=Anu|first1=James|title=Listen to songs of Dulquer Salmaan-Sai Pallavi's 'Kali' [AUDIO]|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/listen-songs-dulquer-salmaan-sai-pallavis-kali-audio-670265|access-date=25 August 2016|work=[[IB Times]]|date=11 March 2016}}</ref><ref name="holly">{{cite news|last1=Sanjith|first1=Sidhardhan|title=Kali trailer uses Hollywood flick's OST|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/Kali-trailer-uses-Hollywood-flicks-OST/articleshow/51426492.cms|access-date=25 August 2016|work=[[The Times of India]]|date=17 March 2016}}</ref><ref name="devil">{{cite news|title=Gopi Sunder's devil may care attitude|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/music/Gopi-Sunders-devil-may-care-attitude/articleshow/51455479.cms|access-date=25 August 2016|work=[[The Times of India]]|date=18 March 2016}}</ref>

{{track listing
|extra_column = Singer(s)
|title1 = Chillu Ranthal|lyrics1 = B K Harinarayanan|extra1 = [[Job Kurian]]|length1 = 5:03
|title2 = Vaarthinkalee|lyrics2 = B K Harinarayanan|extra2 = [[Divya S. Menon]]|length2 = 4:33
}}

== Box office ==
''[[International Business Times|IBTimes]]'' reported that the film collected {{INR Convert|2.33|c}} in the opening day from Kerala; breaking the previous record of ''[[Loham]]'' (2015) to become the highest Malayalam opener. It grossed {{INR}}5.89 crore after 3 days.<ref name="break">{{cite news|last1=Anu |first1=James |title=Kerala box office: Dulquer Salmaan's 'Kali' becomes top Malayalam grosser on first day; breaks 'Charlie' records |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kerala-box-office-dulquer-salmaans-kali-becomes-top-malayalam-grosser-first-day-breaks-672501 |access-date=25 August 2016 |work=[[IB Times]] |date=29 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413034255/http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kerala-box-office-dulquer-salmaans-kali-becomes-top-malayalam-grosser-first-day-breaks-672501 |archive-date=13 April 2016 }}</ref>

The total earnings of the movie in 27 days from the US box office is {{INR Convert|28.84|l}},<ref name="jacob">{{cite news|last1=Anu|first1=James|title=Kerala-US box office: Nivin Pauly's 'Jacobinte Swargarajyam' performs well; Dulquer Salmaan's 'Kali' holds steady|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kerala-us-box-office-nivin-paulys-jacobinte-swargarajyam-performs-well-dulquer-salmaans-676239|access-date=25 August 2016|work=[[IB Times]]|date=26 April 2016}}</ref> and {{INR Convert|30.18|l}} from 3rd weekend from UK box office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/box-office-overseas/fan-nears-10-million-mark-in-overseas/|title='Fan' nears 10 million mark in overseas|work=[[Bollywood Hungama]]|date=26 April 2016}}</ref> The film is reported to have collected ₹16.4 crore at the Kerala box office.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://english.manoramaonline.com/in-depth/yearender-good-bad-retrospect-2016/highest-grossing-malayalam-movies-of-2016.html|title=Top 10 highest grossing Mollywood movies of 2016...|work=[[Malayala Manorama]]|date=5 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Anu|first1=James|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kammatipaadam-box-office-heres-final-kerala-collection-report-dulquer-salmaan-movie-691766#JDeqfjirdAMO28w6.97|title='Kammatipaadam' box office: Here's the final Kerala collection report of Dulquer Salmaan movie|access-date=30 August 2016|work=[[International Business Times]]|date=30 August 2016}}</ref>

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