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| Directed by | Major Ravi |
| Written by | Major Ravi |
| Produced by | Sunil C. Nair (under Zoe Estebe Moviez) and Mohanlal (under Pranavam Arts International) |
| Starring | Mohanlal Amitabh Bachchan Ganesh Venkatraman Sumalatha Parvathy Omanakuttan Ragini Dwivedi Kaveri Jha Ananya |
| Cinematography | Ravi Varman, Velraj |
| Edited by | Don Max |
| Music by | Shamir Tandon |
| Distributed by | Aashirvad Release through Maaxlab |
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| Country | Template:Film India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Kandahar is a Malayalam film directed by Major Ravi and starring Mohanlal, reprising his role from the sequels as Major Mahadevan. Amitabh Bachchan and Ganesh Venkatraman also play roles in the project. The film is dubbed and released in Tamil and Hindi. The film is said to be based on the hijacking incident of the Indian Airlines Flight 814. The sound design of this film is done by Baylon Fonseca. This film is marketed by Shaz Shabeer of Strikers & Crew Films. This film is produced by Sunil Nair under the banner Zoe Estebe Moviez Pvt. Ltd. and Mohanlal under Pranavam Arts International.
Cast
- Mohanlal as Major Mahadevan
- Amitabh Bachchan as Lokanathan Sharma
- Ganesh Venkatraman as Suryanathan Sharma
- Parvathy Omanakuttan
- Sumalatha as Wife of Lokanathan Sharma
- Ragini Dwivedi
- Kaveri Jha as Air hostess
- Ananya
- Major Ravi
- K.P.A.C. Lalitha
- Kannan Pattambi
- Mamukkoya
- Goutham Kurup
- Smitha Nishad
- Anoop Chandran
- N. L. Balakrishnan
- Pradeep Chandran
- Saaju Attingal
- Major Kishore
- Captain Anil
- Haneef Kumaranellur
- Jaffer Idukki
Casting
Mohanlal plays the lead role and is serving as the film's producer. Several other artists from Tamil cinema were initially approached to play secondary lead roles as well, including Surya Sivakumar and Arun Vijay, who all cited date conflicts. Later, Ganesh Venkatraman was finalized for a role. Amitabh Bachchan was also approached for a major role in the film, to which he immediately agreed. According to his blog, he did not ask for any compensation for his appearance in the film, eventhough he was offered a whopping 8 Crores. His son in the film is played by Ganesh Venkatraman. Later, models Parvathy Omanakuttan and Ragini Dwivedi were signed up to play supporting roles.
Locations
At a press conference, Major Ravi reported that the aeroplane sequences of the film would be shot in Russia. Other locations include Ooty and New Delhi.
Release
The film is released on 16 December 2010 in 111 theaters in Kerala alone. 9 theaters in Bengaluru, 5 theaters in Chennai, around 18 theaters in Mumbai, Delhi, Pune and Hyderabad. Kandahar has collected ₹ 6.25 crores revenue from its total cost ₹ 6.50 crores before releasing as satellite + overseas + theater advances + audio + video rights This was not the actual budget discused before, its has been said as the most expence malayalam film ,which was later reduced to 6.5 cores . However, the film was deemed a box office failure shortly after release.
Major Mahadevan series
Previous films of the series were successes all over Kerala, playing in Kirtichakra and in Kurukshetra and kirtichakra ran over 150 days and kurukshetra ran over 75 days .
Jeeva played a supporting role in Kirtichakra and Siddique in Kurukshetra. This time Ganesh Venkatraman is playing the supporting role.
Soundtrack
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The soundtrack features five songs composed by Bollywood Music composer Shamir Tandon; who is known for his compositions in Madhur Bhandarkar's films., with lyrics by Sandeep Nath, Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma, Sudhakar Sharma and Kaushal Kishor.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Aye Janani" | Sandeep Nath | Sonu Nigam | 4:56 |
| 2. | "Pakida Pakida" | Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma | M. G. Sreekumar, Neetha Subhir | 4:22 |
| 3. | "Ho Chupi He" | Kaushal Kishor | Kailash Kher | 4:23 |
| 4. | "Dheemee Dheemee" | Sudhakar Sharma | Sunidhi Chauhan | 4:18 |
| 5. | "Aye Janani" | Sandeep Nath | Neetha Subhir | 5:08 |
| 6. | "Ho Chupi" | Kaushal Kishor | Kailash Kher | 4:39 |
| 7. | "Tigde Tigde" | Sandeep Nath | Amit Kumar, Neetha Subhir | 4:22 |
References
- "Big B in 'Kandahaar' along with Sunil Shetty". indiaglitz.com. April 14, 2010.
- "Kamal Haasan, Mohanlal team up for 'Kandahar'". August 14, 2008.
- "No Space For K-town stars In Kandahar". The Times of India. April 22, 2010.
- "Parvathy Omanakuttan in 'Kandahar'". May 27, 2010.
- Srinidhi, Sharadha (June 3, 2010). "Lucky Bee bags a Big B film". The Times of India.
- "Kandahar is safe before releasing, said Major Ravi".
- "Shamir Tandon ropes in Sonu Niigaam for a patriotic rendition". July 01, 2010.
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External links
- Official website
- Kandahar at Nowrunning.com
- Kandahar at mallumovies.org