KOCHI:
New
Delhi, the hit-film scripted by Dennis Joseph, resurrected actor Mammootty’s film career in the late eighties after some of his films failed to click with the audience. While Dennis Joseph had an almost complete script, his mind was working towards a powerful
climax
. Despite spending long hours on it, he couldn’t nail it.
Then Dennis came across an article on the front page of The Times of India. The news was about a worker who lost his hand while printing a leaflet on industrial safety at the press. His hand was trapped in the machine and the leaflets came out of the press soaked in his blood. The movie’s plot centred on a journalist and his kin who become the victims of those in power since the protagonist (as a journalist) had unravelled the politician’s corruption. A case was forged and he was jailed. The journalist breaks out of prison and plans to kill the politicians.
In the climax, G Krishnamurthy, played by Mammootty, sends his gang to assassinate the minister. But, the minister escapes and comes to the press where Krishnamurthy is printing newspapers carrying the article that the minister was killed .
His lady-love guns down the minister, who falls into the rolling press.
The newspaper carrying the minister’s death comes out soaked in his own blood.
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