Ko (film)
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| கோ | |
| Directed by | K.V. Anand |
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Elred Kumar Jayaraman |
| Written by | Subha (Dialogue) |
| Screenplay by | K. V. Anand Subha |
| Story by | K. V. Anand Subha |
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| Music by | Harris Jayaraj |
| Cinematography | Richard M. Nathan |
| Edited by | Anthony |
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R. S. Infotainment
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| Distributed by | Red Giant Movies |
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Running time
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165 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
| Budget | ₹10 crore (equivalent to ₹14 crore or US$2.1 million in 2016) |
| Box office | ₹54.34 crore (equivalent to ₹78 crore or US$12 million in 2016) |
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| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Label | Sony Music | |||
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Ko (Tamil: கோ, English: King) is a 2011 Indian Tamil political thriller film directed by K. V. Anand, starring Jiiva, Ajmal Ameer, Karthika Nair and Piaa Bajpai. The film was released on 22 April 2011 to mostly positive reviews, and was dubbed into Telugu as Rangam as well. This movie was a blockbuster and had 175 days theatrical run. A sequel to the film released on 13 May 2016 with a different crew and cast titled as Ko 2 directed by Sarath, Co-Director of Billa 2 And Unnaipol Oruvan.
The film was remade in Bengali in 2013 as Kanamachi.The film's plot outline is inspired from the 2009 film State of Play Based on an online poll conducted by The Times of India, it won the Best Film Award for 2011.
Ashwin Kumar (Jiiva) is a photojournalist working for the private newspaper Dina Anjal. He witnesses Naxalites robbing a local bank. He chases them and manages to click photos of the robbers. When he tries to escape, he is stopped by a young woman Renuka 'Renu' (Karthika Nair) who assumes he is the culprit and helps the robbers to take his camera. However, he is able to secure the memory card of the camera. The police catch him, and to prove that he is a press photographer, he shows the photos to them, who identify everyone except the gang leader (whose face is covered by a mask). At his office, he again meets Renuka, who has newly joined as Article Editor. Saraswathi 'Saro' (Piaa Bajpai) also works in his office and has feelings for Ashwin, who does not reciprocate.
Settled in her new job, Renuka writes a cover story about a politician Aalavandhan (Kota Srinivasa Rao), describing his attempt to marry a minor. Enraged by this, Aalavandhan barges into the newspaper office and shouts at Renuka. The audio recording of her interview disappears (courtesy Aalavandhan), and she is fired from her job for falsified reporting. Ashwin later risks his life to capture the pictures of Aalavandhan who actually engages in child marriage in a temple at midnight. Later the story with the photos is printed in their newspaper and this makes Renuka to fall in love with Ashwin, which the latter reciprocates. Saro is initially jealous of the love between Ashwin and Renuka, but later accepts it and gets over Ashwin.
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