The Telugu film Yatra, directed by Mahi V Raghav which was screened a week after Peranbu, where he is the late Chief Minister YS Rajashekara Reddy, would again be one of the many instances when he has been part of biopics. Similarly, Amudhavan, who finds himself taking care of his spastic daughter in Ram’s Tamil film Peranbu is the nth father role he has done, in a career of more than four decades, and over 400 films. Mani sir would perhaps be the Malayalam megastar’s 30 th (roughly) outing as a cop on screen and interestingly, this character is a subversion of all the previous ones. He is that superior who confesses to his subordinates that he has never used a gun or chased a thief in his life. Manikandan is in his late 50s, a few years short of retirement, takes tablets for blood pressure, is a big brother to his young team, can only converse in his mother tongue, and is momentarily left motionless when he faces an unexpected arms attack. In this year’s Khalid Rahman directed Unda, Mammootty plays SI Manikandan, who heads a team of Kerala cops assigned to cover election duty in the Maoist Chhattisgarh.
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