Thaskaraveeran (2005 film)

Thaskara Veeran ( The brave thief /The great thief ) is a Malayalam film directed by Pramod Pappan. The film stars Mammootty with Nayanthara, Sheela, Madhu, Innocent, Rajan P.Dev, Siddique, and Mamukkoya in supporting roles. The film released in 2005. It has a dubbed Hindi version which is called Kala Samrajya.

Thaskara Veeran
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Directed by	Pramod Pappan
Produced by	Vindhyan
Screenplay by	Dennis Joseph
Story by	Antony Eastman
Starring	Mammootty
Music by	Ouseppachan
Cinematography	Jibu Jacob
Edited by	P. C. Mohanan
Release date	27 May 2005
Running time	165 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Plot

Arakkalam Peeli, a veteran thief, adept in creating different masks was killed by Eapen with an indirect support from the former's son Arakkalam Kuttappan. Kuttappan's son, Baby, who happens to witness the murder runs away from the village. He later becomes a smuggler and robber.

Several years later Kuttappan is sent to prison by a cunning Eapen who is then a rich businessman over an issue related to loan. This causes Baby to return to his village. He gives him gold biscuits to settle the matter and bails out his father. That night Baby manages to steal the same biscuits from Eapen's house by pretending to be his eldest son Thommi. He uses a mask just as his grandfather used to. After handing over the biscuits to Mumbai-based gangster he decides to settle in his village. He stays with Meenakshi, his late grandfather's ex-lover, and seldom meets his father (as he is unable to completely forgive him due to his involvement in his grandfather's murder). He vows to destroy the wealth of Eapen and how he does it forms the rest of the story.

Cast

• Mammootty as Arakkalam Kochu Baby / Arakkalam Bhai
• Nayantara as Thankamani
• Sheela as Meenakshi
• Innocent as Malayil Eapen
• Rajan P. Dev as Arakkalam Kuttappan
• Siddhique as Malayil Thommi
• Baburaj as Malayil Peter
• Niyaz Musaliyar as Malayil Johnny
• Kiranraj as Haafiz Akbar Jinnah
• Madhu as Arakkalam Peeli
• Salim Kumar as postman Suguthan
• Mohan Jose as Chandy
• Augustine as CI Ayyappan Pillai
• T. P. Madhavan as Ramkumar
• Spadikam George as Malayil Itty
• Bheeman Raghu as Kargil Narayanan
• Kunchan as Raghavan Mashu
• Radhika as Sethulakshmi
• Kishor Sathya as Deepu
• Biyon as Balu
• Subbaraju as Smuggler
• Anil Nedumangad as Drunken Man In The Bar
• Dinesh Prabhakar As Villager
• Mamukkoya as Beerankutty
• Deepika Mohan as Raghavan's wife
• Sruthi Nair

External links

• Thaskaraveeran on IMDb