Bombay March 12
| Bombay March 12 | |
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Promotional poster
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| Directed by | Babu Janardhanan |
| Produced by | Haneef Muhammed |
| Written by | Babu Janardhanan |
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Mammootty Unni Mukundan Roma |
| Music by |
Songs: Afzal Yusuf Background score: Prashant Pillai |
| Cinematography | Vipin Mohan |
| Edited by | Vijay Shankar |
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Production
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Red Rose Creations
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| Distributed by | Red Rose Release & PJ Entertainments |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Bombay March 12 is a 2011 Malayalam–language Indian drama film based on the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts. The film marks the directorial debut of noted screenwriter Babu Janardhanan.Mammootty, Roma and Unni Mukundan play the lead roles. The narrative is in a hyperlink format. It opened on 30 June in theatres and, despite receiving positive critical reviews, did not fare well at the box office.
The story is about Sameer (Mammootty), a sweeper with the Alappuzha Municipality, who is always on tenterhooks because he is on the police radar whenever there is trouble or an act of terror occurs. Later it is revealed that his brother-in-law Shahjahan (Unni Mukundan) was suspected to be part of the terror team that had planted bombs in Bombay in 1993 and was later killed in an encounter with the Army in Andhra Pradesh.
The narrative moves back and forth, slowly connecting Sameer with Shahjahan who had gone to Bombay as an IT professional and from whom much was expected by his family. The innocent youngster gets entangled in the web of a terror group and goes into hiding fearing the safety of his loved ones.
Sameer, one of the two characters played by Mammooty in the film, is inspired by the People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani's long incarceration as an under-trial in a Tamil Nadu jail. Likewise, Sameer spends nine and a half years in jail as an accused in a blast case and is finally acquitted of all charges. The director says that the film transmits not just the trauma of Madani but of every under-trial who had to undergo long imprisonment. "Only the core idea is taken from real life and the rest is fiction. Madani is a political leader. But Sameer is presented as an ordinary person", he said.
Unni Mukundan (Krishna), who plays a major supporting role in Bombay March 12, was formerly working as an assistant to veteran director A. K. Lohithadas. Model-turned-child artiste Babydiya makes her film debut with Bombay March 12.
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