Aryan (1988 film)

Aryan is a 1988 Indian Malayalam-language action crime film directed by Priyadarshan and written by T. Damodaran. The film stars Mohanlal, Ramya Krishnan, Sharat Saxena, Shobana, Sreenivasan, Gavin Packard, M. G. Soman and Goga Kapoor. It was produced by Mohanlal and Century Kochumon through the company Cheers Films. Aryan tells the tale of an underworld battle and family bonds through Devanarayanan who arrives in Bombay with nothing and rises to become a gangster in a powerful crime gang.

For the term used to describe the Indo-Iranian people, see Aryan.

Aryan
Poster designed by P. N. Menon
Directed byPriyadarshan
Produced byMohanlal
Century Kochumon
Written byT. Damodaran
StarringMohanlal
Ramya Krishnan
Sharat Saxena
M. G. Soman
Gavin Packard
Shobana
Music byReghu Kumar (Songs)
Johnson (Score)
CinematographyS. Kumar
Edited byN. Gopalakrishnan
Production
company
Cheers Films
Distributed byCentury
Release date
  • 26 August 1988 (1988-08-26)
Running time
180 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Aryan was one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of the year. It ran for over 200 days in theatres. Mohanlal won the Kerala State Film Award – Special Jury Award for acting. The film was dubbed in Hindi as Aaryan Mera Naam. Aryan was remade in Tamil as Dravidan (1989), in Telugu as Ashoka Chakravarthy (1989) and unofficially as Dhruva Nakshatram (1989) both of which were released on the same day. It was remade in Kannada as Chakravarthy (1990). Saxena reprised his role in all the versions.

Plot

Devanarayanan is a Brahmin priest from Kerala, who has to look after the entire family. He is in love with Aswathy, but her father is against their relationship. Arumukhan falsely accuses Devanarayanan of the theft of their temple's thiruvabharana and forces him to leave his village.

He reaches Bombay where he gets shelter from Balan K. Nair and family, who runs a tea shop. Monisha is the daughter of Balan. K. Nair. Some turn of events draws Devanarayanan into the underworld and he becomes the trusted aide of the ageing don Kareem.

Nirmala, who is working for the same gang, gets closer to Devanarayanan. Johnny, from the same gang, joins hands together with rival don Majeed Khan and Kareem's son and daughter-in-law, Monisha are killed leaving Kareem on a path towards religion and leaving all underworld business.

Khan plans to leave Bombay, but Devanarayanan gets him arrested. Later he proves his innocence to his father. By that time, Khan kills Nirmala. Devanarayanan kills Khan. This film ends tragically with a furious Devanarayanan screaming at the judge in court for false accusations.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Raghu Kumar and the lyrics were written by Kaithapram.

No.SongSingersLyricsLength (m:ss)
1"Om Jai Jagadeesh Hare"Sujatha MohanKaithapram01:09
2"Ponmuraliyoothum"M. G. Sreekumar, Sujatha MohanKaithapram03:33
3"Shaanthimanthram Theliyum"Kaithapram, M. G. Sreekumar, Sujatha MohanKaithapram05:53

Box office

The film was a commercial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of the year. It ran for over 200 days in theatres.[1]

Remake

Aryan was later remade in Tamil as Dravidan (1989) by Suresh Balaje, with Sathyaraj playing the lead role. It was also remade in Telugu as Ashoka Chakravarthy (1989) starring Nandamuri Balakrishna and unofficially as Dhruva Nakshatram (1989) both of which were released on the same day, and in Kannada as Chakravarthy (1990) starring Ambareesh.

References
  1. Sidhardhan, Sanjith (24 January 2017). "Priyan and I share a special bond: Mohanlal". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 May 2020. I remember, in the late 80s when I had a hat-trick of hits - Vellanakalude Nadu did 150 days, Aryan 200 days and Chithram, 366 days.
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