Unda

Unda (2019)

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SI Manikandan and his police team are dispatched to Basthar, a Maoist area for election duty where they aren't trained to handle the attacks in a territory field filled with land mines while being armed with unnecessary ammunition.

Date of release
2019-06-14
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (39)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Drama
Director
Khalid Rahman

Casting

Interesting facts

Unda (transl. Bullet) is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language black comedy film directed by Khalid Rahman with a screenplay by Harshad based on a story by Rahman. Krishnan Sethukumar produced the film for Moviee Mill and Gemini Studios. The film stars Mammootty, Shine Tom Chacko, Jacob Gregory and Arjun Ashokan. Sajith Purushan was the film's cinematographer, and Prashant Pillai composed the music.

Production

Unda is based on a 2014 newspaper article in the Malayala Manorama daily. In 2014, Rahman had noticed an article pointing out the situation of a unit of policemen from Kerala sent to Chhattisgarh for duty during the 2014 Lok Sabha election. It reported that the unit, posted in an area with rampant Maoist activity, were not provided with sufficient ammunition.

In early November 2017, Mammootty was reported as the star of the film, with Anwar Rasheed financing. Because of the delay and extension in filming Trance, Rasheed left Unda amicably and Krishnan Sethukumar replaced him as producer. Prominent Chennai based film studio Gemini Film Circuit marked their return into production after a long time by co-producing and distributing Unda.

Even before its official announcement, medias had reported speculations about the title of the film to be Unda. On 21 September 2018, Mammootty shared a poster through his Facebook handle revealing the title "Unda", meaning Bullet in Malayalam. Due to its unique title, numerous trolls and negative comments had appeared across social media platforms post announcement.

Once the idea was worked out Rahman had taken in mind a reference character from real life. The particular character's style and inputs were used while writing the script. He wanted Mammootty to play the lead as he felt that to execute such a real life character in the film it demanded an experienced actor. They first narrated the story to him in 2018 and were sure that he would be ready to do the film.

Principal photography began by the second week of October 2018, in the Karadka Reserve Forest, situated in the Kasaragod district of Kerala. As part of setting up the location, gravel laid roads was constructed in the forest area. Filming was initially planned as a single schedule for 60 days and apart from Kasaragod, Chhattisgarh and Mangalore were also major filming locations.

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