Kalki (2019 Malayalam film)

Nanchenkotta is a fictional place on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border which is ruled by DYP party leader named Amarnath, who threatens and tortures the people to keep them under control. Due to this, many residents left the land and are living in neighbouring places. In the present, the place is filled with goons under Amarnath's command. The party is also involved in illegal businesses like gun production and the other known members of the party are Amarnath's brother Appu and their cousin Dr. Sangeetha. Another rival party headed by Adv. Lakshmanan participates in election, but to no avail due to the influence of Amarnath. Adv. Lakshmanan gives a speech in favour of the locals and goes against DYP and asks for the vote of the local people.

After the speech, Lakshmanan was killed by Amarnath's henchman Ummar. Even though there was a police station, the law was in Amarnath's hands and the cops were unable to take any action against him. SI Vyshakan, who is in-charge of Nanchenkotta, commits suicide after his daughter criticise him for his inability for not taking any action in the murder case of Lakshmanan. The new leader of the rival party along with his subordinates starts taking their own decisions without thinking about the people. They conduct a meeting to select the candidate for the upcoming election against DYP's candidate Appu. The new decisions were not welcomed well. A senior party member named Sooraj along with several other members, leave the party to work for the people on their own. The same day, the new leader lends a goon out of town to murder Amarnath, but he ends up dying by Amarnath's hands.

A nameless SI (simply referred as "K") arrives at Nanchenkotta, where he burns a goon alive who had taken over the police station. K rallies the other cops and starts clearing Amarnath's goons using illegal methods, where most of the goons change their ways out of fear. K also visits the illegal gun manufacturing site headed by Appu and threatens him to shut it down. In response, Ummar arrives at the police station and threatens K, only to be thrashed by him and K orders him not to work under Amarnath. Under the command of Amarnath, Ummar does various activities to make K leave the town or kill him, but to no avail. In a final attempt, Ummar attacks two policemen and one loses his leg in the process. An agitated K tracks down Ummar in a factory and thrashes him and his allies, where he finally chops off Ummar's legs with a chainsaw along with his crew. Sooraj meets K and tells him about the people, who have left the place and the problems, where he requests his help to convince the people to arrive back.

K starts working for the people against DYP which enrages Amarnath. Amarnath's goons kill a policeman in response and stabs K, but K manages to defeat them. In the next step, Amarnath finishes Sooraj which pulls down the confidence of the locals. K kidnaps Appu and thrashes him severely that he falls into a coma. Amarnath is forced to kill Appu to end his suffering. After Appu's death, Sangeetha refuses to become the next candidate and leaves for Hyderabad after a cop threatens her. Having lost Appu, Amarnath vows to kill K and asks him to arrive for a final battle. In the subsequent fight, Amarnath overpowers K, but the latter prevails and defeats him. K drags Amarnath's body through the streets and orders no one to move until the prison authorities arrive. The people, who had left arrives and walks over Amarnath's unconscious body, thus establishing peace in Nanchenkotta. As his work is completed, K leaves the place unnoticed and arrives at an unknown place in Tamil Nadu to restore peace and order.

Kalki was announced by Tovino Thomas on 16 September 2018 through his Facebook page. The film is produced by Suvin K. Varkey and Prasobh Krishna under their production house Little Big Films. The first-look poster of the film was also released during the film announcement. Tovino Thomas is portraying the lead role as a police officer, and Samyuktha Menon is playing the female lead.[2] Saiju Kurup playing a supporting role.[3]Principal photography began on 12 March 2019 with a customary pooja function held at Kochi.[4] Filming took place at Tenkasi, Tamilnadu and Kundara, Kerala. The shooting was completed on 29 May 2019 in a single schedule with 62 days of filming.[5]

Composer Jakes Bejoy provided the music for the film.[6] The soundtrack album is distributed by the label Goodwill Music.

The movie got released worldwide on 8 August 2019. In Kerala the movie was released across 161 theaters.[7] Outside India the movie was released on same day itself across theaters in UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Singapore, United States and Canada.

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