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| Directed by | Lijo Jose Pellissery |
| Produced by | Anitha Anil Mathew |
| Written by | Babu Janardhanan |
| Starring | Indrajith Prithviraj Rajeev Pillai Rohini Parvathi Rima Kallingal Swetha Menon |
| Music by | Prashant Pillai |
| Cinematography | Sujith Vasudev |
| Editing by | Manoj |
| Studio | Mary Matha Creations |
| Distributed by | Mary Matha Release |
| Release date(s) | April 23, 2011 (Kerala) |
| Running time | 145 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam Tamil |
City of God (Malayalam: സിറ്റി ഓഫ് ഗോഡ്) is a 2011 Indian crime thriller film directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery and written by Babu Janardhanan. The film tells the story of Tamil migrant workers and a team of land mafia criminals in the city of Kochi. It stars Indrajith, Prithviraj, Rajeev Pillai, Rohini, Parvathi, Rima Kallingal and Swetha Menon. The music is composed by Prashant Pillai.
The film uses the hyperlink cinema format as its narrative structure. Although the 2002 Brazilian film of the same name uses this format, along with many other films, it was first used by Satyajit Ray in his film Kanchenjungha (1962).[1]
The film received favorable critical reviews, but it ended up being a disaster at the Kerala box office as it was pulled off from the theatres within one week of release. [2]
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The film starts with a road accident and the story traces the life of the four families, which are associated with the accident. Each family have a different perspective on the city of Cochin.
The first story revolves around the life of Tamil migrants. One of the Tamil migrant Swarnavel (indrajith) has a special affection towards another migrant marathakam (Parvathi Menon). Marathakam, is already married and she ran away from her old husband in Pollachi, due to his unbearable torture. Marathakam and swarnavel knows that they love each other, but they are not expressing it to each other. Because of some personal benefits, Lakshmi( Rohini) break their relationship and forces Marathakam to marry another migrant. But on the night of the marriage, marathakam came to know that her new husband was a thief and came to swarnavel. They realize their love and starts living together. But the second husband takes revenge by bringing the old husband (a rowdy) from Pollachi. On the next day, swarnavel rescues marathakam from her old husband's hands and trying to escape in a moped and they met with an accident.
The next story deals with the life of business men Sony and his forehand Jyothi Lal (Prithviraj). As per the instructions of sony, jyothi lal and his gangs kills a plot owner, who is the husband of Liji Punnose (Swetha Menon). Liji Punnosse identify her husband's murderer Jyothi lal and is associating with another businessman shamir to destroy sony and Jyothi lal. Liji promises to marry Shamir, if shamir can satisfy her wish of killing jyothi lal and sony by arranging another gang. The business man sony has an eye on the growing actress Surya prabha ( Rima Kallingal). Surya is leading an unpleasant married life with Mehaboob, who is a friend and later became a business partner of sony. Sony with the intention of collecting surya prabha cheated Mehaboob in the construction business and the police remanded mehaboob for the inadequate and unsafe construction practices, which caused the death of the Tamil migrant lakshmi. Sony demands and force surya for an illegal relation to get the papers that proves her husbands innocence from his hand. But jyothi lal rescues surya and later jyothi lal rescues surya from a suicide attempt too. Joyothi lal takes surya to sonys guest house to collect the papers and they picked sony on their way and their vehicle is also come across the same accident, which swarnavel and marathakam came across. Sony dies at the accident on the spot itself.
The gang arranged by shamir and Liji Punnakose arrives at the accident spot and tries to kill Jyothi lal. Jyothi lal escapes from the site with surya and they began to realize the importance of each other in their future life. Liji marries shamir and went to Dubai for their further business. Swarnavel and marathakam married each other and settled in a village in the final scene.
The film had a delayed release on 23 April 2011.[4][5] It received predominantly positive reviews from critics.