Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Black

Black is one of the super hits of mammootty released in 2004 and directed by Renjith. Black is a movie that deals with the underworld operations in Kochi City. Karikkamuri Shanmugham (Mammootty) is a hit man and a contract killer. David Carlos Padaveedan (Lal) is a lawyer who masterminds and controls the operations of the underworld in Kochi. David and Shanmugham are friends and Shanmugham does whatever David asks him to do. As a child Shanmugham was picked up from the slums by the local secretary of the Marxist Party (Janardhanan) and put in an orphanage. He grew up without any love and affection and turned out to be a real 'goonda'. He becomes a ruthless and cold blooded killer.

As the story goes, Shanmugham was entrusted with the custody of a girl by the party secretary. It turns out to be that the girl is his own daughter. A newly appointed police officer Ashok (Rehman) tries his best to clean up the corrupt system in the city but is killed by Carlos. Such incident involving innocent people gradually makes a change in Shanmugham. The rest of the movie deals with the transformation of Shanmugham from a killer to a peaceful man. He ends up fighting with his own gang controlled by David Carlos Padaveedan and a good hearted City Police Commissioner (Babu Antony) helps him out in his ordeal. The song "Ambalakara Thechikavil Pooram" sung by M.G.Sreekumar is a well choreographed, memorable one.

Black grossed 3 cores 10 lakhs in 10 days. It was a record at that time. Movie got a good profit in its 50 days run. It ran nearly 80 days in major centers. In 50 days movie collected nearly 35 lakhs from Trivandrum, 48.5 Lakhs from Ernakulam and 44 Lakhs from Calicut.

2 comments:

  1. This was one of my favourite action movies..

    Engumodungatha jeevithasakthikal thoongi marich vazhiyambalangalil...karirul mulkkireedavum choodi nam thedi nadannathu ..soukyamo ...mruthyuvo....

    kid scene aayirunnu ithu...

    Karakkamuri shanmugan & padaveedan vakkeel...2 perum thakarthu ....kure style dialogues okke undayirunnu....100 Day oru centreil enkilum adikkanda padam aayirunnu...Lal ee padam irangiyathinu shesham etho kannada/tamil padangalil okke abhinayikkan poyi...marketingil sradhikkan pattiyilla ennu kettittundu...it affeted badly in the long run

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  2. Black in 38 centers 50 days
    http://picasaweb.google.com/bellari.raja.king/MammoottyMovies2004#5387413802489188210

    http://lh6.ggpht.com/_PjRZo50fL7Q/SsPwT0Nnj3I/AAAAAAAAAOQ/nN7jQaNQjkU/s512/5-Black-1.jpg

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