Sakhavu (2017 film)
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| Malayalam | സഖാവ് |
| Directed by | Sidhartha Siva |
| Produced by | B. Rakesh |
| Written by | Sidhartha Siva |
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Nivin Pauly Aishwarya Rajesh Aparna Gopinath Althaf Salim |
| Music by | Prashant Pillai |
| Cinematography | George C. Williams |
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Universal Cinema
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| Distributed by | Anto Joseph Film Company |
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Running time
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164 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Sakhavu (English: Comrade) is a 2017 Indian Malayalam language drama film written and directed by Sidhartha Siva. It stars Nivin Pauly in dual roles, as a cunning student political leader (Krishnakumar) and a senior social activist & comrade (Sakhavu Krishnan) who fights for his left-wing ideals. Aishwarya Rajesh plays the heroine.The film was released on 15 April 2017 to mixed reviews.
Krishnakumar aka Kichu (Nivin Pauly) is a ruthless youth wing's leader at a district level of his political party. He plans to get into a better position at his SFK party by destroying the political career of other competitors in his party. He arranges people to beat up his competitor, even though he is Kichu's close friend.
He gets a call from Kuriachan (Renji Panicker) who is a leader of his political party. He tells Kichu to go to hospital and donate blood for a fellow comrade as Kichu has the rare blood group O Negative. Kichu was forced to go to hospital but he tells his friend Mahesh (Althaf Salim) that he will get the hell out of there without wasting his time. He makes a lot of mess at hospital and tells the acquaintance of the recipient to get food for him. Kichu was thinking that the recipient was a less known comrade but he was stunned by seeing even the chief minister paying a visit to see the wounded recipient. Now Kichu is eager to know this so called comrade and asks Prabhakaran(an acquaintance of comrade) about him.
Prabhakaran starts to tell the story of comrade Krishnan. Krishnan was a party member who was sent to Peerumedu by party's Kottayam district committee to develop their party's influence there. Krishnan raised voice against the poor wage giving to workers at tea estate but the manager of the estate was not interested in raising the wage. Krishnan led a strike with all the workers and the tea factory was forced to raise the wage. Krishnan's next move was against a Brahmin land lord. The land lord was giving labour to tamil people for poor wage instead of malayalees. Krishnan and his party talked to the land lord but he didnt negotiate. And the land lord didnt do the cultivation that year. Krishnan and workers started cultivating in the land lord's land and produced a good yield. They were ready to give the yield to the land lord at a condition that he should give them the proper wage. He was forced to accept.
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