KEERTHI CHAKRA

Movie Review
CASTING
 Mohanlal as Major Mahadevan

 Jiiva as Havildar Jaikumar

 Lakshmi Gopalaswamy as Mahadevan's wife

 Gopika as Jaikumar's wife

 Biju Menon as Gopinath

 Santhosh Jogi as Military Officer

 Spadikam George as Krishnakumar

 Cochin Hanifa as Nairettan

 Shweta Menon as Human Rights Activist

 Saikumar as Dutta

 Shammi Thilakan as Hari

 INTRODUCTION
 Keerthi Chakra is a 2006 Indian Malayalam war film written and
directed by Major Ravi.

 Mohanlal in lead as Major Mahadevan and Jiiva in a supporting

role.

 The film is based on true events related to insurgency in the

Indian controlled region of Kashmir.

 The film, the first in the Major Mahadevan film series.

 The film was dubbed into Tamil titled Aran and some scenes
were added for Prakash Raj in that version.
 STORY
 Major Mahadevan (Mohanlal) is an officer deputed to the National
Security Guards (NSG). He has been assigned to counter-terrorism
duties in Kashmir and commands an elite group of
NSG commandos.

 The commandos raid a mosque in civilian dress and seize a big

collection of arms and explosives.

 A group of terrorists from Afghanistan and Pakistan conspire to hit

the Hazratbal Shrine with a missile. They hijack a house that offers a
good vantage point on the shrine and plant the missile there.

 Some of them rape three girls in the house in front of their father
and shoot a person who protests. A military patrolling vehicle hears
the gunshot; as they approach the house, they are fired upon.
Contd….
 The patrolling team intimates the NSG, and Mahadevan and his
team immediately join the battle. After a long operation, the team
kills the terrorists, frees the civilian hostages and disarms the
missile. But a civilian informs that the chief of the terrorists is not
to be seen among the corpses, and the commandos start a
combing operation in the house.

 They locate the terrorist and Mahadevan recognises the man as

the one who killed his wife and daughter. The terrorist is killed but
he manages to shoot at Mahadevan. Mahadevan is covered by
Jaikumar, who gets hit by the bullet and dies. Jaikumar is awarded
the Kirti Chakra.
MANAGERIAL ASPECT

A. Planning

B. Co-ordination

C. Social Responsibility

D. Leadership

E. Motivation
STRENGTH

It shows the Unity and Coordination between the Military

persons involved in the force.

 It makes every individual realize the actual hard work and

sacrifice of an Army man is the reason behind the peace
and happiness of our nation.

 The intensity of a citizen's patriotism increases by seeing

the dedication of every army man.
WEAKNESS
 The movie is about incidents happening in Kashmir in
2003. The dates are shown in screen also. But the mobile
phones used, especially the Nokia 7610 used by Mohanlal,
were released in 2004.

 This movie is a pathetic display of what happens in

Kashmir.

 But the unfortunate part is that a movie about the highest

ranks in Indian Militia turns out to be a pathetic display
that only makes one think that the movie was not that
great.
CONCLUSION
 Keerthichakra is slick, fast paced action movie set against the
backdrop of army among an elite commando group fighting
insurgency in Kashmir. Director Major Ravi himself an army
man has paid rigorous attention to the minute details in the
recreation of an operation against terrorists.
 The film pulls at your heart strings as Ravi is able to convey
what is happening in Kashmir at the ground level and how the
centre is shying away from tackling the issue fearing
communal backlash.
 How ordinary Muslim families in the valley are Indian at heart
and does not care really for the Jihadi war is also essayed well
by the director who shows the plight of Kashmiri family whose
members are brutally raped and killed by the terrorists. It’s a
very brutal scene which could have been trimmed a bit.
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