Samrajyam
| Samrajyam | |
|---|---|
 Poster | |
| Directed by | Jomon |
| Produced by | D. Ajmal Hassan |
| Screenplay by | Shibu Chakravarthy |
| Story by | Jomon |
| Starring |
Mammootty Sonia Madhu Srividya Captain Raju Vijayaraghavan |
| Music by | Ilaiyaraaja |
| Cinematography | Jayanan Vincent |
| Editing by | K. P. Harihara Puthran |
| Studio | Arifa Productions |
| Distributed by | Shyni Films Release |
| Release dates | 22 June 1990 (Kerala) |
| Running time | 122 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Samrajyam (English: The Empire) is a 1990 Indian Malayalam gangster film directed by Jomon. It centers on the story of Alexander (Mammootty), a powerful underworld don.
The film was appreciated for its technical brilliance and later many Indian gangster films like Baasha and Hum took influences from this film.Due to the film's extravagant style factor, composer Ilaiyaraaja gave a completely new treatment to the background score of the film; different from his earlier works. The film had a post-modern synthesizer oriented score, where digitized rhythms and basslines were fused with western classical orchestral progressions.
The film was a box-office blockbuster and broke several records. It run 100 days in Geetha theatre, Kozhikode. The film had an excellent outing in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu as well, when its dubbed versions were released. A sequel to Samrajyam is announced under the title would be Samrajyam II: Son of Alexander with renowned Tamil director Perarasu directing the movie.[1]
Cast
- Mammootty as Alexander
- Madhu as Balakrishnan
- Srividya as Lakshmi
- Sonia as Alexander's sister
- Ashokan as Anil
- Captain Raju as Krishnadas
- Vijayaraghavan as Khadir
- Sathaar as Mathews
- Jagannatha Varma as K. M. Shah
- Sadiq as James
- C. I. Paul as Priest
- Prathapachandran
- Jagannathan as Lakshmi's father
- Raghu
- Vishnukanth as Alexander's son
Crew
- Director: Jomon
- Screenplay: Shibu Chakravarthy
- Story: Jomon
- Producer: Ajmal Hassan (Arifa Productions)
- Music: Ilayaraja
- Editing: Hariharaputhran
- Cinematography: Jayanan Vincent
Reception
The film met with positive responses on release; and later gained more fans after frequent broadcasts in cable television channels. [citation needed]
Sequel
Samrajyam 2 the much anticipated movie in Malayalam now going to happen,there are lots of rumour about the hero of the movie .Earlier Mammootty himself will be in the sequel as Son of Alexander but later there are rumours that lead role is offered to his son Dulquar Salman who recently have big success in Malayalam movie industry with Second Show and Usthad Hotel.But the rumor comes to an end when it reveals that Samrajyam 2 will features another young promising star of Malayalam Unni Mukundan.[2]
References
External links
- Samrajyam at the Internet Movie Database