Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
CBI Film Franchise is an Indian Malayalam-language film series of mystery films directed by K. Madhu and written by S. N. Swamy featuring Mammootty as Sethurama Iyer, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer in the title role. The series started off in 1988 with Oru CBI Diary Kurippu.
The film is the third installment in the CBI film series, featuring Mammootty as CBI officer Sethurama Iyer. The film was a blockbuster and was the highest-grossing film of the year collecting around distributors share of ₹4 crore and a gross around ₹10 crore. [1] The success of the film made Mammootty "Man of the year". [1]
Mammootty, who portrayed Sethurama Iyer in the five films so far. Sethurama Iyer is depicted with a distinctive style in the films. The character is heavily based on Kerala Iyers. [11] [12] Mammootty thus in the series speaks Malayalam with traces of Tamil to represent the fact that the native language of this community is Tamil. [12]
Sethurama Iyer CBI ₹16 crore [52] 2005 Rajamanikyam ₹17 crore [53] 2006 Classmates ₹18 crore [54] [55] 2007 Mayavi ₹15 crore [56] 2008 Twenty:20 ₹32 crore [citation needed] 2009 Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja ₹21 crore [57] 2010 Pokkiri Raja ₹16.5 crore [58] [59] 2011 Christian Brothers ₹28 crore [citation needed] 2012 Mayamohini ...
Nerariyan CBI (transl. To know the truth CBI) is a 2005 Indian Malayalam-language mystery film directed and produced by K. Madhu and written by S. N. Swamy.The fourth installment in the franchise of CBI investigative thrillers, Mammootty reprised the role of Sethurama Iyer, a Central Bureau of Investigation officer, with Mukesh and Jagathy Sreekumar reprising their roles as the associate ...
Swamy is the creator of some of the well-known fictional characters in Malayalam cinema including Sethurama Iyer (portrayed by Mammootty) and Sagar Alias Jacky (portrayed by Mohanlal). Sagar Alias Jacky, a notorious gold smuggler, was the protagonist in Irupatham Noottandu (1987) and the eponymous Sagar alias Jacky Reloaded (2009), its ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Without even a single song or dance number, Oru CBI Diary Kurrippu created box-office history in Kerala." [24] In February 2018, Neelima Menon of The News Minute wrote, "The first edition of the franchise released in 1988, was a breakthrough film in terms of novelty; as a film in the investigative genre it imbibed from western sensibilities. It ...