Runway (2004)

Runway is a 2004 Indian Malayalam-language gangster film directed by Joshiy and written by Udayakrishna and Siby K. Thomas. It stars Dileep, Indrajith Sukumaran, Murali, Harisree Ashokan and Kavya Madhavan. The film revolves around Unni Damodaran (Dileep), who, due to financial problems, becomes an infamous spirit smuggler, Valayar Paramasivam, operating through the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border check-post of Walayar. He works for the mafia kingpin Bhai

(Murali).

Plot

The film begins when Gopika and her father move into a house where Bharathiyamma stays with her two children, Balu, and Ambili. Bharathiyamma has one more son, Unni Damodar, her eldest child, who apparently works in Dubai. Unni tells his family that he is working in the Gulf but in reality is a powerful gangster, Valayar Paramashivam, who runs an illegal liquor mafia with Chandy “Bhai”, along with Achayan and Achuvettan in Valayar.

He accepts a four-year term imprisonment, but actually the accused was Bhai. Unni, however, confesses his deeds to Gopika, whom his mother wants him to marry. After leaving the jail, Paramasivam realizes that Bhai has fallen into a huge debt because of the cheating of Chinnadan Varkey and his sons. He then goes to Valayar and thus saves Bhai and his family from debt with his wicked mind and tricks. He again rules spirit deals in Valayar area, pulling the Chinnadans into trouble. Things change when Balu becomes the new Sub-Inspector. He is posted in the Valayar area, where Unni and Bhai rule.

In Valayar, Balu tries his level best to catch Valayar Paramasivam but does not know that it is none other than his brother, and fails in the mind game played by Unni. This makes Bhai angry with Balu. But Paramasivam tells him to forgive Balu because he was his brother. In the meantime, Unni's family discovers that he himself is Paramasivam after Gopika's uncle Divakaran, a jail guard in the jail where he was imprisoned, visits them, and he is ousted from his family. Later, Chinnadan kills Bhai's only son, Johnny, and blames Balu as the real killer. This made Bhai very desperate, and he wants to kill Balu. Bhai kidnaps him. On knowing this, Paramasivam goes to save Balu and informs Bhai that the actual killer was SP by identifying the ring marks in Johnny's face.

Paramasivam assures him that he will help him avenge his son's death despite Balu's protest. After realizing the innocence of Balu, Bhai and Paramasivam kills the Chinnadans by releasing gas and spirit into their house after locking all the doors and triggering an explosion through a toy plane. The film moves to the climax, where it is shown that Paramasivam gets acquitted of all their cases since Bhai has pleaded guilty to all the crimes. He says it's his turn to lead a free life.

Cast

Music

Runway consists of 6 songs, including one instrumental version, which were composed by Suresh Peters, and the Original background music is scored by S. P. Venkatesh. All the lyrics were penned by Gireesh Puthenchery.

Remake

The film was remade in Telugu as Nayakudu with Rajasekhar.

Sequel

In 2016, it was announced by Dileep that a sequel is in works, titled Valayar Paramasivam.

Box office

The film was the second highest grosser of 2004, after Sethuramaiyer CBI.

References

External links

Runway at IMDb