Inspector Garud
Inspector Garud is a 2007 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy police drama film directed by Johny Antony, starring Dileep Pillai and Kavya Madhavan as the lead roles. The film was a commercial success at the box office.
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| Directed by | Johny Antony |
| Produced by | Milan Jaleel |
| Written by | Udayakrishna Siby K. Thomas |
| Starring | Dileep Pillai Kavya Madhavan |
| Music by | Alex Paul |
| Cinematography | P.Sukumar |
| Edited by | Ranjan Abraham |
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| Distributed by | Galaxy Films |
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Running time | 137 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Synopsis
Inspector Garud has Police Inspector Madhavan Kutty (Dileep Pillai) as a very corrupt officer, known as Garud as he is fast as a falcon who would do any dirty work for money. He became Inspector not through the right channel but by paying 15 lakhs as bribe. So he is now bound on getting his money back through bribes. A consignment of arms reaches Kochi meant for LTTE and the villain, Karaikkudy Arumuga Palaniyappa Chettiyar a.k.a. Chettiyar is keeping it in a colony run by him. An honest cop Rajan Joseph (Lalu Alex) discovers the plot but is sacked by the Home minister. Garud saves Chettiar and at the same time rips him off. Meanwhile, Madhavan Kutty is humiliated by the new Sub Collector Sethulakshmi (Kavya Madhavan) who makes him apologize to her in front of the Women Commission. He takes revenge by working out a marriage with Sethulakshmi under pressure leading to further complications.
Cast
- Dileep Pillai as C I Madhavan Kutty/ Inspector Garud
- Kavya Madhavan as Sub collector Sethulakshmi
- Vijayaraghavan as Karaikudi Arumukha Palaniyappa Chettiyar
- Innocent as Constable Raghavan
- Cochin Haneefa as Govindan, Sub Collector's uncle
- Harisree Ashokan as Kuttappan
- Lalu Alex as CI Rajan Joseph
- Shammi Thilakan as Commissioner Gopinath
- Sadiq as Shekharan
- Kalasala Babu as Achuthan
- Janardhanan as Krishnan Nampoothiri
- Kochu Preman as Sivan Pilla
- Nawab Shah
- Urmila Unni as Sethulakshmi's mother
- Ponnamma Babu as Vanitha commission member
- Anand as Saravanan
- T. P. Madhavan as Minister
- Machan Varghese as Kunjunni,a thief
- N. L. Balakrishnan
- Salim Kumar as Lonappan
- Jagannatha Varma as I.G
- Kalabhavan Shajon as Chacko
- Abu Salim as Karinchantha Vasu
- Aishwarya as Collector Maya Gopinath
- Kalabhavan Haneef as Auto driver
- Bineesh Kodiyeri as Anand, Sethulakshmi's younger brother
- Suja Menon as Saritha
- Jeny Susan Joseph as Parvathi
- Rani
- Mini Arun as Susan
- Deepika Mohan
- Baby Nayanthara
- Sudheer Sukumaran
- Beena Sabu
- Vimal kumar as Police constable
Music
Inspector Garud has music given by Alex Paul. The lyrics were written by Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma. The film has six songs. The playback singers are Jyotsna, Franko, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Rimi Tomy, Afsal, Reju Joseph, Pradeep Babu and Dileep himself. Afsal sings the song "Kanthari Penne".
| Track # | Song | Singer(s) |
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| 1 | "Nishayile Salabhamaai" | Jyotsna |
| 2 | "Kannathe Penne" | Franko |
| 3 | "Manmadhanalle" | Vineeth Srinivasan, Rimi Tomy, Dileep |
| 4 | "Kanthari Penne" | Afsal |
| 5 | "Pathi Kadichu" | Reju Joseph, Pradeep Babu |
| 6 | "Kannum Chimmi Chimmi" | Vineeth Srinivasan |