The highly awaited ‘Pazhassi Raja’ has finally been released in 130 theaters in Kerala including 4 theaters in Trivandram with awesome response from the viewers. ‘Pazhassi Raja’ also has the credit of being the first world class Malayalam movie coming in four Indian languages, with a high budget of Rs. 27 crores. It comes with about 560 prints, meeting the mass audiences. Out of the 560 prints, 125 speak Malayalam, the original, 100 in Tamil, 100 are in Telugu, 110 speaks Hindi and 125 more in Hindi with English subtitles. The film is expected to be released in Tamil on October 30, and other versions are to be released later.

The film has a great hype and expectations among the audience, that the fans celebrated a 5 days welcome festival for the movie. People, who have seen the movie are seems to be satisfied with the movie, after a long waiting. They say that this is the best historical movie ever. Mammootty’s performance in the movie is sure to bring him another National award to his carrier. Mammootty and Sarathkumar are given an equally important character. This is another feather to Padmapriya’s crown for her performance. The filmmakers are very happy with the blasting response from the fans.

The film was produced by Gokulam Gopalan. The movie is made special, with the people involved in it. The six well-known, award-winning, biggest film industry stars are the main reason for such hype. They are Mammootty, 3 times National Award winner, playing the title role in the movie as Pazhassi Raja; directed by T.Hariharan, a National Award winner; written by M.T.Vasudevan Nair, Gyanpeeth award winner, music scored by IsaiGnani Ilayaraja, sound by the Oscar winner Resul Pookutty. R.Sarathkumar from Tamil has played an important role and moreover the movie is narrated in the voice of Megastar Mohanlal. The film is also made with a special narration at the beginning in each language while Kamal Haasan narrated for Tamil, Shahrukh Khan in hindi and Chiranjeevi in Telugu.

The cast crew also includes Suresh Krishna, Manoj K Jayan, Suman as villain, and Kaniha as the princess. Padmapriya plays a pivoted role in the movie ‘Neeli’, as a head of a tribal, who expects a brake through this. The movie is about a historic king of Kottayam, ‘Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja’, who started a revolution against British East India Company in 1797, which is claimed to be the first freedom movement in India, about sixty years before the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857, which is said to be the first one. Thus the movie is based upon an untold true story of the great king Pazhassi Raja, known as the Lion of Kerala, who lost his throne, palace, family, and his unborn child in the fight for the freedom. The King brought the people of Kurichiyar tribe together and led a guerilla war against British invasion.

The film has created a lot of expectations that it could win many awards and especially the fans expect that it would go for the Oscar awards. The release date of the film was postponed a number of times due to various reasons. The movie was first planned to release on October 2nd, Gandhi Jayanthi, but was then postponed. Anyway there was no drop or effect in the hype and expectation from the audience even after the delay. Now the film has got an excellent response upon its release. The film is also highly expected in the other languages.