Commissioner (film)

The movie opens with Kozhikode city police commissioner Bharathchandran (Suresh Gopi ), an honest but brash cop, busting a gold smuggling racket in. Bharath clearly has an issue with authority and breaths fire each time he encounters a political arm bender, such as Kunju Moideen Sahib (K. P. A. C. Sunny), whose gang was involved in the bust. But it his mentor and guardian angel I.G. Balachandran (M.G. Soman), who has been evidently shielding him from the wrath of the political brass.

The story takes a break from Bharathchandran to introduce the main antagonist Mohan Thomas (Ratheesh), a Delhi based business tycoon, with strong political clout and a clear sociopathic agenda. It is revealed that Mohan Thomas had entrusted Sahib with the gold, which was confiscated by Bharathchandran and is in fact the kingpin heading an unholy nexus of politicians, criminals and various officials including two high ranking cops, Rajan Felix, I.G. Vigilance (Rajan P. Dev) and Menon, A.I.G. (N. F. Varghese), who are involved in criminal activities like instigating communal riots and large scale distribution of counterfeit currency.

Bharathchandran and Mohan Thomas are set on a collision course when Mohan and Co. brutally murder Justice Mahendran (Karamana Janardanan Nair), chairman of the Poovanthura commission, possessing evidence that could potentially incriminate Rajan Felix and Menon, for their direct involvement in communal riots at Poovanthura. Bharathchandran is not only assigned to investigate the homicide but also made police commissioner of Thiruvananthapuram city. Assisted by ASP Prasad Menon (K. B. Ganesh Kumar) and ASP Mohammed Iqbal (Vijayaraghavan), two dynamic but brash officers, Bharathchandran tries to solve the mystery, but soon to hit a dead-end. Until Bharathchandran's fiancée Indu (Shobana), who is also a lawyer, tips him off about the news clip on an assault on a drunk police constable Gopinathan (Maniyanpilla Raju, who also was coincidentally the security for Justice Mahendran. In an attempt to take Sunny, Mohan's younger brother who had assaulted the constable within the college premises results in a massive riot as well as a standoff with Rajan Felix, who tries to save Sunny by trying to take him into his custody claiming previous charges.

The only clue that is left with Bharathchandran and crew are based on Vattapara Pithamparan's (Augustine), a trade union leader, tipoff, that Sunny had actually attacked Gopinath because of Gopinath's comment on counterfeit currency. With this vital clue Bharathchandran unearths more dirt on Mohan Thomas & Co. Further Bharathchandran arrests Srilatha Varma (Chithra), Mohan's legal advisor and mistress, but is brutally murdered in a hotel elevator by Wilfred Vincent Baston (Bheeman Raghu), a Goan hitman, who had also murdered Justice Mahendran. Bharathchandran is successful in nabbing Antony Ignatius Pimento, Wilfred's right-hand man and zeroes in on Wilfred. Then he stages a coup by arresting both Rajan Felix and Menon, who are brutally tortured to reveal details on their alliance with Mohan Thomas and also sheds light on their agenda. Iqbal is killed brutally in an attempt to arrest Wilfred Vincent Baston. This enrages Bharathchandran, who later brutally kills Wilfred and then Mohan Thomas at an outhouse by torching the whole house, thus taking law into his own hands.

• Suresh Gopi as City Police Commissioner Bharathchandran I.P.S
• Shobhana as Advocate Indu Kurup
• Ratheesh as Mohan Thomas
• Vijayaraghavan as ASP Muhammad Iqbal I.P.S.
• K. B. Ganesh Kumar as ASP Prasad I.P.S
• M. G. Soman as IG Balachandran Nair I.P.S.
• Rajan P. Dev as IG Rajan Felix I.P.S.
• N. F. Varghese as AIG Menon I.P.S.
• Bheeman Raghu as Wilfred Vincent Bastin
• Baiju as Sunny Thomas
• Ravi Vallathol as K. M. Varghese, Minister
• Karamana Janardanan Nair as Justice Mahendran
• Maniyanpilla Raju as Constable Gopinathan
• Chithra as Advocate Sreelatha Varma
• Augustine as Vattappara Peethambaran
• Priyanka as Susheela
• Kollam Thulasi as Home Minister
• Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair as Kunjurama Kurup
• Sathaar as Rural SP Bobby I.P.S.
• K.P.A.C. Sunny as Kunju Moideen Sahib
• Sadiq ... Police Officer
• Ranji Panicker ... Journalist
• Biju Pappan ... Goonda
• Ragini...Achamma Varghese
• T.S.Krishnan ... Henchman

The film was released as a Vishu release in April, 1994, and was a major commercial success in theaters. It remains an iconic film in Suresh Gopi's career. Its audio track, with its dialogues was also high in demand. When dubbed and released in Andhra Pradesh as Police Commissioner, it emerged as a major success.

A sequel to this film, Bharathchandran I.P.S., was released in 2005, directed by Renji Panicker himself, which was also a commercial success. The film received an A (Restricted to Adults only) certification from the regional censor board for violence and profanity.

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