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Directed by | Sameer Thahir |
Produced by | Ashiq Usman Shyju Khalid Sameer Thahir |
Written by | Rajesh Gopinadhan |
Starring |
Dulquer Salmaan Sai Pallavi |
Music by | Gopi Sundar |
Cinematography | Gireesh Gangadharan |
Edited by | Vivek Harshan |
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Hand Made Films
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Distributed by | Central Pictures |
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Running time
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116 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Box office | ₹16.40 crore (US$2.4 million) |
Kali (English: Rage) is a 2016 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film directed and co-produced by Sameer Thahir. It stars Dulquer Salmaan and Sai Pallavi. It is the second collaboration of Thahir and Salmaan, after Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi (2013). The film was shot in Kochi, Vagamon, Athirappilly, Masinagudi, and Gudalur. The film was released on 26 March 2016.
Siddharth (Dulquer Salmaan) is quick to anger individual who occasionally gets into trouble due to his anger management problem. He is married to Anjali (Sai Pallavi) and works in a bank in Kochi. Their marriage begins to strain when Siddharth starts to pick fights over simple reasons. She requests him to start changing his habits and slowly their life begin to get better until Siddharth reacts violently against an annoying co-worker which embarrasses Anjali.
She leaves home in tears but Siddharth offers to drive her home in Masinagudi in Tamil Nadu. On the way, a trucker 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 starting to get afraid of his rage and plans to end their marriage.
They stop by a roadside eatery which is run by a ruthless gangster, John (Vinayakan), and his henchmen. Siddharth begins to lose temper at the man waiting their table and his anger is aggravated when the trucker, Chakkara (Chemban Vinod Jose) who is John's friend, too stops by the eatery and begins to make Anjali uncomfortable. Siddharth, on Anjali's insistence, controls his anger while he is there. But at the cashier, manned by John, he refuses to pay for a glass of juice which had a dead fly in it. John offers him two options: leave without paying for anything or pay for everything.