Swarna Kaduva
| Swarna Kaduva | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| സ്വർണ്ണ കടുവ | |
| Directed by | Jose Thomas |
| Written by | Babu Janardhanan [1] |
| Produced by | Job G. Oommen |
| Starring | Biju Menon Innocent Poojitha Menon Iniya Suresh Krishna Hareesh Perumanna |
| Cinematography | Manoj Pillai |
| Edited by | John Kutty |
| Music by | Ratheesh Vegha |
Production company | Job G. Films |
| Distributed by | Jo & Jo |
Release date |
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Running time | 147 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Swarna Kaduva (Malayalam: സ്വർണ്ണ കടുവ) (English: The Golden Tiger) is a 2016 Indian Malayalam-language satirical film directed by Jose Thomas, starring Biju Menon in lead role. The script is written by Babu Janardhanan. Critics consider the film to be following a similar thread from 2011 film, Indian Rupee and in comedy relief factor tops Thoppil Joppan.[2] The film was released on 4 November 2016.
Plot
Rinichen is a self made right-hand man of businessman Lonappan. Over the years he takes advantage of Lonappan for solving shady problems. When everything seems to boilover at the gravy train he uses the opportunity and asks Lonappan to help him settle elsewhere with a jewellery shop. Rinichen who had a hard life and was from once well known family starts care evermore for money & status and life starts to make him pay for karmic debts of his unethical previous engagements. The rest of the film explores whether Rinichen will rebound or go further down the rabbit hole.
Cast
- Biju Menon as Rini Iype Maatummel
- Innocent as Lonappan
- Suresh Krishna as Divakaran
- Sudheer Karamana as Advocate Paul
- Baiju as Inspector Sasidharan
- Hareesh Perumanna as Joju
- Poojitha Menon as Deepthi
- Iniya as Lovely
- Kottayam Nazeer
- Naseer Sankranthy as Broker
- Santhosh Keezhattoor as Surendran
- Kishor Satya as Johnnychan
- Saju Kodiyan
- Kalabhavan Jinto as Binoy
- Jayakumar Parameswaran Pillai as Father
- Jayasanker Karimuttam
- George
- Minon
- Anju Aravind as Film actress Geethu Nair
- Seema G. Nair as Binoy's mother
- Sobha Singh as Rini's mother
- Chinnu Kuruvila as Anitha
- Rosin Jolly as Mollykutty
- Swasika as Riya
- Rakhi as Swapna
Release
The film was earlier scheduled for a release on 28 October 2016,[3] but to avoid competing with Pulimurugan, it was rescheduled to 4 November 2016. The film released in 104 screens in Kerala.[4]
Box office
In Kerala, the film collected ₹2.10 crore on its opening day.[5] The film collected ₹1.6 crores in the first weekend[6] and ₹2.34 crores in the three weekend[7] from US box office.
References
- ^ Rasheed, Rafi. "Swarna Kaduva Malayalam movie review 2016". Film Fever Media. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
- ^ "Vellakaduva is now Swarnakaduva". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ^ James, Anu (4 October 2016). "Pulimurugan, Thoppil Joppan and other Malayalam movies to watch out in October". International Business Times. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ സ്വന്തം ലേഖകൻ (3 November 2016). "104 തിയറ്റർ, 455 ഷോ; ബിജു മേനോന്റെ സ്വർണകടുവയ്ക്ക് മെഗാ റിലീസ്". Malayala Manorama. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
- ^ "Swarna Kaduva opening weekend box office collection". India Spot News. 7 November 2016.
- ^ "Dear Zindagi grosses 6 mil. USD [40.9 crores] in overseas". Bollywood Hungama. 5 December 2016.
- ^ "All eyes on Dangal". Bollywood Hungama. 20 December 2016.