Commissioner

Commissioner is a 1994 Indian Malayalam-language neo-noir action thriller film directed by Shaji Kailas, written by Ranji Panicker, and produced by M. Mani. It stars Suresh Gopi as police commissioner Bharathchandran IPS, and also features Ratheesh, Shobana, Vijayaraghavan, M. G. Soman, Rajan P. Dev, K. B. Ganesh Kumar, N. F. Varghese, Karamana Janardanan Nair, and Maniyanpilla Raju in pivotal roles. The background score was composed by Rajamani. Commissioner became the highest grossing Malayalam film of 1994, which earned Suresh Gopi the status of an Action Superstar. It is a cult film among Malayali audiences, with several dialogues becoming very famous and remaining so even decades later. The Telugu dubbed version Police Commissioner was also a major commercial success. The sequel titled Bharath Chandran I.P.S. was released in 2005, directed by Ranji Panicker. In 2012, a crossover film titled The King & the Commissioner, with the characters from The King (1995), Commissioner (1994) and Bharath Chandran I.P.S. (2005) was released, but the film was panned by critics and became a box-office bomb. Plot Bharathchandran, an honest but brash police commissioner of Kozhikode, bust a gold smuggling racket at the Calicut docks where he clearly has an issue with authority, and breaths fire each time he encounters a political arm bender like Kunju Moideen Sahib, whose gang was involved in the bust, but his mentor I.G. Balachandran evidently shields him from the wrath of the political brass.