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Lal Salam (1990)

Lal Salam poster
Original title
ലാൽസലാം
Directed by
Venu Nagavally
Genre
political film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 26m
Rated
U
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The story follows three communist party members in Kerala before and after one of them is imprisoned. It shows how their personal lives and political ideals change over time.

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What happens

Lal Salam is a 1990 Indian Malayalam-language political drama film directed by Venu Nagavalli and produced under the banner K. R. G. Release. It stars Mohanlal, Murali, Geetha, and Urvashi. This movie was a blockbuster, running in seven centres for more than 150 days. The story revolves around two phases of the lives of three comrades - before and after the imprisonment of Sakhavu Stephen Nettooran (Mohanlal- inspired from Varghese Vaidyan), Sakhavu D.K. Antony (Murali- inspired from T. V. Thomas) and Sakhavu Sethulakshmi (Geetha- inspired from K. R. Gowri Amma) - members of the Communist Party of India (CPI). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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