Kalapani (means "black water" or dark sea in Hindi), is a multi language Indian film. The name Kalapani is derived from the mode of imprisonment in British India.

Story

Story is about the sufferings of a young man who is wrongly accused of being a freedom fighter and is then jailed in a Cellular Jail at Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands by the British. The film also show the cruelties inflicted by British officials on British India.

Specialities

One speciality of this film is half the film is shown with dialogues in multiple languages, Hindi, English, Malayalam, Tamil, Bengali, German. Other half entirely in one language originally in Malayalam, but dubbed to Hindi, Tamil etc.

Title in each languages are Kalapani (Malayalam) Saza-E-Kala Pani (Hindi) Sirai Chaalai (Tamil)

Cast

Actors are Mohanlal (as Unni), Tabu (as Parvathi, lover of Unni), Amrish Puri, Prabhu, Annu Kapoor , Nedumudi Venu etc. And is directed by Priyadarsan with music by Ilayaraja photo graphy by Santosh Sivan

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