The Terrorist (1998)
September 12, 1998Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Ayesha Dharker
Malli

Vishnuvardhan
Thyagu

Krishna Kulasekaran
Lover

Sonu Sisupal
Leader / Music

Anu Vardhan
Sumitra

Vishwas
Lotus

Bhanu Prakash
Permual

Anuradha
Sumitra

Santosh Sivan
Director / Story / Screenplay / Director of Photography

C.K. Raajaa Chandra Sekar
Dialogue

Ravi Deshpande
Screenplay

Vijay Deveshwar
Screenplay

Rajamani
Music

Sreekar Prasad
Editor

Abhijat Joshi
Producer

Shyam Sunder
ProductionDesigner
Media.


Details.
Release DateSeptember 12, 1998
Original Nameதீவிரவாதி
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 35m
Budget$24,554
Box Office$140,021
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
The Terrorist (Tamil: பயங்கரவாதி, romanized: Bayangaravaathi) is an Indian Tamil-language film directed by Santosh Sivan. The film portrays a period in the life of a 19-year-old woman, Malli (Ayesha Dharker), sent to assassinate a leader in South Asia through a suicide bombing. It stars Dharker, K. Krishna and Sonu Sisupal. Released in 1998, the film was shot in 15 days, with natural lighting, on a shoestring budget of ₹25 lakh (worth ₹2.2 crore in 2021 prices).
The film won a number of awards at international film festivals. Actor John Malkovich first saw the film at the 1998 Cairo International Film Festival and subsequently adopted the film as a kind of post-facto executive producer (the reissued film's titles read "John Malkovich Presents"). Critic Roger Ebert has included the film in his series of "Great Movies" reviews. Ebert concludes his review with the following line: "Every time I see the film, I feel a great sadness, that a human imagination could be so limited that it sees its own extinction as a victory." The film that proved his mastery over the visual language was The Terrorist which has become a textbook of sorts for visual communication students, with scenes from the movie being used by Michael Chapman, Martin Scorsese’s cinematographer, to explain the tenets of cinematography during workshops. According to film critic Roger Ebert, it was a film ‘scripted by the camera’. Says Sivan: "One day I got a call from Samuel Lee Jackson who was interested to cast the heroine of The Terrorist, Ayesha, in a Hollywood film."
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