Runway
DVD Cover
Directed byJoshiy
Written byUdayakrishna-Siby K. Thomas
Produced byV. K. Naushad
Mohandas
StarringDileep
Indrajith Sukumaran
Murali
Harisree Ashokan
Kavya Madhavan
CinematographyP. Sukumar
Edited byRanjan Abraham
Music bySongs:
Suresh Peters
Score:
S. P. Venkatesh
Production
company
N. N. S. Arts
Distributed bySwargachithra Release
Release date
  • 25 April 2004 (2004-04-25)
Running time
165 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Runway is a 2004 Indian Malayalam-language gangster film directed by Joshiy and written by Udayakrishna and Siby K. Thomas. It stars Dileep, Indrajith Sukumaran, Murali, Harisree Ashokan, and Kavya Madhavan. The film revolves around Unni Damodhar (Dileep) who due to financial problems becomes the renowned white spirit smuggler named, Valayar Paramasivam, in the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border check-post of Walayar. He works for the mafia king-pin Bhai (Murali).[1][2]

Runway was released on April 25, 2004.

Plot

The film begins when Gopika and her father move into a house where Bharathiyamma stays with her two children, Balu Damodar and Ambili. Bharathiyamma has one more elder son Unni Damodar who apparent works in Dubai. Unni tells his family that he is working in the Gulf but in reality he runs an illegal spirit business with Chandy “Bhai” along with Achayan and Achuvettan in Valayar.

He accepts a four-year imprisonment but actually the accused was Bhai. Unni, however confesses what he does, to Gopika whom his mother is insistent that he should marry her. After leaving the jail Paramasivam realizes that Bhai has fallen into a huge debt because of the cheating of Chinnadan Varkey and his sons. He then goes to Valayar and thus saves Bhai and his family from debt with his wicked mind and tricks. He again rules spirit deals in Valayar area pulling the Chinnadans into trouble. Things change when Balu becomes a police officer. He is posted in Valayar area, where Unni and Bhai rule.

In Valayar, Balu tries his level best to catch Valayar Paramasivam but does not know that it is none other than his brother; and fails in mind game played by Unni. This makes Bhai angry with Balu. But Paramasivam tells him to forgive Balu because he was his brother. In the meantime, Unni's family discovers that he himself is Paramsivam after Gopika's uncle Divakaran, a jail guard in the jail where he was imprisoned visits them and he is ousted from his family. Later, Chinnadan kills Bhai's only son Jerry and blames Balu as the real killer. This made Bhai very desperate and wants to kill Balu. Bhai kidnaps him. On knowing this, Paramasivam goes to save Balu and informs Bhai that the actual killer was SP by identifying the ring marks in Jerry's face.

Paramasivam then confesses him that Bhai's Paramasivam will not lie to Bhai. After realizing the innocence of Balu, Bhai and Paramasivam plans to kill the Chinnadans by releasing gas and spirit into their house after locking all the doors and sending a toy plane which blasts when functioned switch is pressed. The film moves to the climax, where it is shown that Paramasivam gets acquitted from all their cases since Bhai has pleaded guilty to all the crimes. He wants Paramasivam to return as Unni to his family and lead a normal life with them.

Cast

Music

Runway: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album to Runway by
Suresh Peters and S. P. Venkatesh
Released25 April 2004India
Recorded2004
VenueThiruvananthapuram
StudioChithranjali, Trivandrum
GenreFilm score
Length27:20
LanguageMalayalam
LabelSatyam Audios
ProducerSongs: Suresh Peters Background score: S. P. Venkatesh
Suresh Peters chronology
Thenkasi Pattanam
(2002)		 Runway: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(2004)		 Mazhathullikkilukkam
(2004)
External audio
audio icon Audio Jukebox on YouTube
S. P. Venkatesh chronology
Vajram
(2004)		 Runway
(2004)		 Mambazhakkalam
(2004)
Singles from Runway
  1. "Pulariyiloru Poothinkal"
    Released: 25 April 2004
  2. "Nadiye Nile Nadiye"
    Released: 25 April 2004

Runway consists of 6 songs, including one instrumental version, were composed by Suresh Peters and the Original background music is scored by S. P. Venkatesh. All the lyrics were penned by Gireesh Puthenchery.

Track listing
No.TitleArtist(s)Length
1."Pulariyiloru Poothinkal(Raga:Kalyani)"K. S. Chithra4:56
2."Nadiye Nile Nadiye"Vidhu Prathap, Sujatha Mohan4:22
3."Oh Salama Ailesa"Karthik4:05
4."Shaba Shaba"Afsal, Sunitha Sarathy5:42
5."Jathi Dance"Instrumental3:20
6."Pattu Vennilavu"Suresh Peters, Jyotsna Radhakrishnan, Sunanda4:55
Total length:27:20

Remake

The film was remade in Telugu as Nayakudu with Rajasekhar.

Sequel

In 2016, it was announced by Dileep that a sequel is in works, titled Valayar Paramasivam.

Box office

The film was blockbuster.[3][4][5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Runway". Sify. Archived from the original on 10 April 2022.
  2. ↑ "Runway Review | Runway Malayalam Movie Review by NR". 11 May 2004.
  3. ↑ "A winning team". The Hindu. 11 July 2004.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Sify. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "Malayalam cinema- Analysis 2004!". Sify. 1 January 2005. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "Dileep-Kavya in New Zealand!". Sify. 8 January 2006. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "Quest for perfection". The Hindu. 15 September 2011.
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