Annu Kapoor as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.Sethu, Dr.Govardhan's nephew who is in the Indian Army Tabu as Parvathi / Parvathikutty, Dr.Govardhan's lover and later wife.The film ends with Sethu lying to her that he met Govardhan and talked to him about her, indicating she will never come to know about Govardhan's death and will keep waiting for him for the rest of her life. Sethu, after knowing Govardhan has already been hanged to death 45 years ago, decides to not tell the truth to his aunt as her wait of 50 years would have been in vain. Govardhan is hanged to death.Īll this is shown in interminnent flashbacks. Seeing Mukundan's dead body, Govardhan throws down David from one of the towers and kills Mirza Khan by strangling him. Mukundan refuses to escape and is taken on the pretext of meeting the Chief Commissioner, and is shot and killed. David and the jail warden Mirza Khan ( Amrish Puri) hatch a plan to incite a prison riot and shoot down 13 prisoners while they are escaping. One of them is Mukundan ( Prabhu Ganesan), Govardhan's friend. Due to Len's efforts, the government decides to investigate the matter of the torture meted out to the prisoners. Parvathi keeps waiting for Govardhan to come back. Veer Savarkar ( Annu Kapoor) is incarcerated and tries his best to keep the spirit of the prisoners going despite unbelievable torture. There, hundreds of Indian prisoners are incarcerated in the cellular jail, including leading participants of the independence movement.ĭavid Berry (Alex Draper) is a sadistic jailor who is of Irish descent, while Len Hutton ( John Kolvenbach) is a kindhearted English doctor. On his wedding day with Parvathi, he is deported to a cellular jail at Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Govardhan, a doctor and Indian nationalist, is wrongly accused of bombing a train carrying 55 people, including British officials. In an old room containing record of prisoners held at the jail, Sethu comes across Govardhan's records and learns his story. Sethu ( Vineeth) of the Indian Army goes to Ross Island, Kaalapani to find the whereabouts of his aunt Parvathi's ( Tabu) husband Govardhan Menon ( Mohanlal), who has been sent to jail in 1916 during the period of British rule. The movie also won six Kerala State Film Awards. Venky), and Best Cinematography ( Santosh Sivan). The film won three National Film Awards, including the awards for Best Art Direction ( Sabu Cyril), Best Special Effects (S. Amitabh Bachchan bought the Hindi dubbing rights, besides narrating the prologue for the Hindi version. Originally made in Malayalam, the film was dubbed and released in Hindi as Saza-E-Kala Pani, Tamil as Siraichalai, and in Telugu as Kaala Pani. The film is now regarded as one of the classics in Malayalam cinema.
Kaalapani was released on 6 April 1996 in 450 theaters worldwide, which was the largest release for any Indian film until then. It was made on a budget of ₹2.50 crore, making it the costliest Malayalam film made until then. The film introduced Dolby Stereo into Malayalam cinema. Ilaiyaraaja composed the music, the cinematography was by Santosh Sivan, and the editing by N. The name Kalapani is derived from the mode of imprisonment in British India. The film is about the lives of prisoners in British India who are brought to Kālā Pānī. The film was produced by Mohanlal for Pranavam Arts in association with R. The ensemble cast includes Mohanlal, Prabhu Ganesan, Tabu, Amrish Puri, Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, Tinnu Anand, Annu Kapoor, Alex Draper, Sankaradi, and Vineeth. Set in 1915, the film focuses on the lives of Indian independence activists incarcerated in the Cellular Jail (or Kālā Pānī) in Andaman and Nicobar Islands during the British Raj. Black Water) is a 1996 Indian Malayalam-language epic historical drama film co-written and directed by Priyadarshan.
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