Aandavan (2008 film)

Aandavan is an Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Akbar Jose and starring Kalabhavan Mani, Sindhu Menon and Jagathy Sreekumar. The film was telecasted on Mazhavil Manorama.^[1][2]

Aandavan
Directed by	Akbar Jose
Starring	Kalabhavan Mani Sindhu Menon Jagathy Sreekumar
Cinematography	Vipin Mohan
Edited by	Ranjan Abraham
Music by	Alex Paul
Distributed by	Kalasangham Films
Release date	16 May 2008 (2008-05-16)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Plot

This movie revolves around Aandavan alias Murugan, a thief from the slum of Cochin who robs from a corrupt business tycoon Parameshwara Panicker. Soon, SI Sreerekha is appointed to capture him.

Cast

• Kalabhavan Mani as Aandavan (Murugan)
• Sindhu Menon as SI Sreerekha
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Kavungal Parasmeshwara Panicker
• Salim Kumar as Mayinkutty
• Irshad as Constable Rameshan
• Bijukuttan as Bhaskaran
• Indrans as Chandran
• Seema G. Nair as Sarasu
• Kulappuli Leela as Mariyamma
• Narayanankutty as Narayankutty
• Anand as CI Sadashiva Panicker
• Besant Ravi as Tyson George (Georgekutty)
• Chali Pala as SI Gangadharan
• Ponnamma Babu
• T. S. Raju as Velayudhan
• Boban Alummoodan
• Priyanka
• Nivia Rebin

Reception

Nowrunning wrote that "Aandavan is as formulaic an action flick as has ever graced the silver screen. It's in reality a series of pointless fights, murders, verbal aggression and plenty of bloodshed frantically on the hunt for an interesting storyline".^[3] Indiaglitz wrote that "`Aandavan' is a regular Kalabhavan Mani affair -yet another take which glorify one-man vigilant justice. And as usual with his films, this too remains unsurprising and predictable to the core. In an obvious attempt at making a formulaic masala movie, the creators come up with another that turns out far from satisfactory".^[4]