Calcutta News
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| Directed by | Blessy |
| Produced by | Thampi Antony |
| Written by | Blessy |
| Starring | Dileep, Meera Jasmine, Indrajith, Vimala Raman |
| Music by | Debojyoti Mishra |
| Cinematography | S. Kumar |
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Kayal Films
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| Distributed by | Century Pictures |
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Running time
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138 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Calcutta News (2008) is a Malayalam romantic drama thriller film written and directed by Blessy. The film stars Dileep, Meera Jasmine, Indrajith and Vimala Raman. The music is by Debojyoti Mishra. The film deals with the issue of trafficking in women and how a middle-class girl from Kerala gets caught in it. It showcased Blessy's yet another different genre film and successfully provided Dileep a different character unlike his usual comic characters.
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Plot
Ajit Thomas (Dileep) is an acclaimed investigative television anchor and producer with a leading channel 'Calcutta News', and is the son of a former footballer who grew up in Kolkata. His team at the channel includes news assistant Smita (Vimala Raman), and anchors Aruna (Manasa) and Sheela (Brinda). Ajit is a lovable guy who lives in a flat with his mom and sister and is active member of the Malayalee Samajam led by a comical president (Innocent) and his wife (Bindu Panicker) One day Ajit bumps into a newly married Malayalee couple while on work in a tram, but the guy is hostile when he tries to introduce himself as a Malayalee! However, while editing the news, he is shocked to find that an unidentified body found near Kalighat resembles the rude guy he met in the tram.
Ajit's investigative nature comes into the fore as he goes about finding the mystery behind the brutal murder of the guy. The guy was Hari (Indrajith), who had married an orphan Krishnapriya (Meera Jasmine) from Pattambi and brought her to Kolkata, before his brutal murder. Krishnapriya is unaware of her husband's job or what he does for a living and is shattered to know about his death. However, just before Hari is killed, Krishnapriya had come to known that Hari had only married her with the intention of delivering her, a young virgin, to his boss. Krishnapriya is both relieved that she is safe from sex racket she almost fell into, as well as desperate and sad because Hari had been the only person she knew or could go to. She couldn't return home and had nowhere to go. She attempts suicide but fails. Hope floats into her life after Ajit sort of becomes her protector and also gets attracted to her for her innocence and their mutual love for music.
Krishnapriya moves in with Aruna and Sheela but cannot forget her past. When she comes across a psychic at Ajith's office she decides to approach him to know the exact cause of Hari's death. The psychic communicates with Hari's spirit and Krishnapriya come to know of who killed Hari. Ajit becomes concerned about Krishnapriya's obsession with the details of Hari's murder and the strange behaviour she exhibits sometimes. He takes the help of a psychologist to help her forget the painful memories, and she begins to live a normal life teaching music to children. The henchmen of the racket are meanwhile on the hunt for her, as they had already paid Hari for a new girl. The one-armed bearded guy (Kathal Krishnamoorthy) who operates from Sonagachi, the largest red-light area in eastern India, looking for Krishnapriya also wants to settle a score with her, because it was in the fight with Hari to get her that Hari had cut off his arm. On a tip off they trace her to the music school and kidnap her. Ajit tries to get the help of the police but they refuse to register a complaint without any proof. He is forced to go after his love all alone. When he enters the red-light area Ajit is shocked at the abuse and neglect the women are facing. He begins to record what he sees on his cell phone. The goons there find him inside and beat him up severely. He is now trapped deep in the red light area with goons out to kill him. In the mele, his cell phone falls out of his hand and is found by a little girl. The child is fascinated by the video recording going on and follows Ajit everywhere recording whatever happens to him. Eventually when she returns the phone to Ajit, the entire fight has been recorded on it. Ajit transmits it to the studio which airs it live along with his plea to rescue the women and himself. Police battalions arrive and free everyone including Ajit and Krishnapriya.
Cast
- Dileep as Ajith Thomas
- Meera Jasmine as Krishna Priya
- Indrajith as Hari
- Vimala Raman as Smitha
- Manasa as Aruna
- Brinda as Sheela
- Innocent as Samajam President
- Bindu Panicker as Leela
- Chithra Shenoy as Ajith's mother
- Suja Menon as Ajith's sister
- Unni Maya as Ajith's sister
Soundtrack
The soundtrack features 6 songs composed by Debjyoti Mishra with lyrics penned by Vayalar Sarathchandra Varma and Debjyoti Misra himself. All the songs were above average. The song "Engu Ninnu Vanna" sung by Chithra was a hit.[citation needed]
- "Kannadi Koottile" (Chithra, Vinitha and Vijaya)
- "Arikiloru Chilla Mele" (Chithra, Asmitha Sengupta)
- "Paangmula" (Bengali) (Sreekanth Acharya)
- "Engu Ninnu" (Chithra, Madhu Balakrishnan)
- "Kani Kanduvo" (Chithra)
- "Nanmayaakunna" (Chithra)
External links
- Use dmy dates from November 2015
- Use Indian English from November 2015
- All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English
- 2008 films
- Malayalam-language films
- Articles with unsourced statements from January 2010
- Films set in Kolkata
- 2000s Malayalam-language films
- Indian films
- Films directed by Blessy
- Films about prostitution in India
