Nallavan (2010)
- Original title
- നല്ലവൻ
- Directed by
- Aji John
- Genre
- drama, action
- Country
- India
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 2.2 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man is wrongfully imprisoned in a harsh penal colony. He plans and attempts a daring escape over many years.
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What happens
Nallavan (transl. The good man) is a 2010 Malayalam-language crime thriller film written and directed by Aji John, and stars Jayasurya and Mythili. The story of this film inspired by the bestseller Papillon, a novel written by Henri Charrière details Papillon's purported incarceration and subsequent escape from the French penal colony of French Guiana and covers a 14-year period between 1931 and 1945. Nallavan is produced by Anil Mathew S Murugan for Bethestha Productions (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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