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The Terrorist(Movie, 1998)

Original title: "தீவிரவாதி" (Tamil/TA)
1h 35min | Genre: Drama
The TerroristRating: 3.5/5 (with 88 votes)
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 langu... ()
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About The Terrorist

A young female terrorist goes on a suicide assassination mission, but her resolve to complete it is put to the test.

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Trailer for The Terrorist + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

The Terrorist | Official Trailer | Santosh Sivan | Ayesha Dharker | Rajamani(Trailer, 1:21)

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Additional Information

Production country: India
Original language: Tamil (TA)
Spoken languages: Tamil (TA)
Translated into 2 languages: English (EN), Italian (IT)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/12/1998
Cast: Ayesha Dharker, Hindu philosophy, Anuradha
Director: Santosh Sivan
Screenwriter: Santosh Sivan
Film Editor: A. Sreekar Prasad
Director of Photography: Santosh Sivan
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"த டெரரிஸ்ட்"
"Theeviravaathi"
Budget: 24,554 USD
Revenue: 140,021 USD (= 570%)

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