Chanakyan

Chanakyan

Year: 1989

Runtime: 145 mins

Language: Malayalam

Director: T. K. Rajeev Kumar

Thriller

Madhava Menon, a ruthless politician, falls in love with a woman whose daughter is married to Johnson, and in a fit of vengeance he ruins Johnson’s family. Broke and desperate, Johnson teams up with a talented mimicry artist to plot an elaborate scheme, ultimately exacting a calculated revenge on Menon.

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