Moonnam Mura is an action thriller Malayalam movie starring Mohanlal

Mohanlal

Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair , known mononymously as Mohanlal , is a National Award-winning Indian actor, producer, singer and writer who is well known for his versatile and natural acting in Indian cinema & hence widely known as the Universal Star...

 and Revathi

Revathi

Revathi is an award-winning Indian actress and film director. She has acted in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi movies, directed several feature-length films, and has acted in and produced multiple television programs, totaling over twenty years of experience in the entertainment...

. It was released in the year 1988. It was directed by K. Madhu

K. Madhu

K. Madhu is a Malayalam film director.Popular for his suspense and investigation thrillers, K.Madhu has a long list of hits in his kitty.-Career:...

. The movie deals with the kidnapping of a group by terrorists, and the commando mission to rescue them.

Synopsis

A group of High ranking political officials are on a trip when their bus is hijacked by a group of terrorists headed by Lalu Alex and Babu Antony.They demand the release of their old colleagues languishing in prison in exchange for safe release of the politicians.Sukumaran plays the cop who is handling the negotiations and vying for their release.Things start slithering out of control and couple of hostages are killed.
Thats when Sukumaran decides to enlist the help of Ali Imran (Mohanlal) in rescuing the hostages.Ali is an ex cop who quit the police force out of disgust due to the unfair treatment meted out to him while he was in the force.This decision is met with some opposition from the Chief of police (Janardhanan) and his son in law (Srinath) as their politics and attitude promted Mohanlal to leave the force.
Though unwilling at first after persuasion by Sukumaran who was his supporter in the police he decides to go ahead with the rescue mission.After careful surveillance Mohanlal along with a couple of his friends is able to sneak into the palace where the hostages are bundled up and manages to rescue them and finish off Lalu Alex in the end.

Cast

Actor	Role
Mohanlal Mohanlal Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair , known mononymously as Mohanlal , is a National Award-winning Indian actor, producer, singer and writer who is well known for his versatile and natural acting in Indian cinema & hence widely known as the Universal Star...	Ali Imran
Lalu Alex Lalu Alex - Early life :Lalu Alex was born in a Jacobite Christian family in Piravom near Muvattupuzha, Kerala.-Career:He started his career as a supporting actor in early 1980s. He has started his career in supporting as well as in villanoeus roles in I. V...	Charles
Sukumaran Sukumaran Edappal Ponnamkuzhi Veettil Sukumaran Nair , popularly known as Sukumaran, was an Indian film actor, and producer....	DIG Menon
Janardhanan Janardhanan (actor) Janardhanan is a Malayalam film actor. He is known for his peculiar style of handling humor and his quaint voice. He started his career playing brusque villains in the 1970s but later went on to establish himself as a highly sought-after comedian. The turning point of his career was the role of...	Mathews
Suresh Gopi Suresh Gopi Suresh Gopinathan Nair , often credited as Suresh Gopi , is an Indian film actor who works mainly in Malayalam cinema; he is famous for his roles in police dramas. He is noted for his leading roles as much as his character roles...	Vaishakhan
Sreenath Sreenath Sreenath was a popular Malayalam film and television actor. He acted in many hit films, including Shalini Ente Koottukari, Ithu Njangalude Katha, Oru CBI Diary Kurippu, and Kireedam....	SI Raju
Revathi Revathi Revathi is an award-winning Indian actress and film director. She has acted in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi movies, directed several feature-length films, and has acted in and produced multiple television programs, totaling over twenty years of experience in the entertainment...	Mini Johnson
Mukesh Mukesh (actor) Mukesh , born Mukesh Babu, is an Indian film actor and producer known for his work in Malayalam cinema.- Personal Life :...	Vinod
Prathapachandran Prathapachandran Prathapachandran was a Malayalam film actor who left a vivid impression through his dramatic portrayal of villainous and character roles in over 300 movies. He was born in 1941 at Omallur in Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India. He died on December 16, 2004. He was 63.-Biography:Prathapachandran...	Bharathan Menon
Vijayaraghavan	Karunan
Babu Antony Babu Antony Babu Antony is an Indian film actor, noted mainly for his negative character roles. He has also acted as a lead actor in a number of films. His life and movie roles are much debated in film industry at one time....	Antony
Murali	Jayan
C. I. Paul	Minister
Innocent	Kisan Jacob
Paravoor Bharathan Paravoor Bharathan Paravoor Bharathan is an Indian actor of Malayalam films who started his career in movies during 1960s. Bharathan is known as a versatile actor as he has acted in a variety of roles including negative roles, character roles and comedy roles.- Biography :...	Balakrishnan
Mala Aravindan Mala Aravindan Mala Aravindan is a Malayalam film actor.- Biography :He was born in Kerala, India as the eldest son of Ayyappan, an Excise department employee and Ponnamma, a school teacher. Later, he relocated to Mala and started using the place name along with his name....	Driver
Kollam Thulasi Kollam Thulasi Kollam Kanjaveli Kuttilazhikathu Thulasidharan Nair is an actor in Malayalam cinema who is better known as Kollam Thulasi relating the name of his birth place Kollam to his first name as customary in Kerala. His first appearance was in Ezhuthappurangal . He is also a poet.-Personal life:He was born...	Home Secretary
Jose	Doctor
M. S. Thrippunithura	Namboothiri
T. P. Madhavan	Panikkar
Babu Namboothiri	Mohan
V. K. Sreeraman	Simon
Mohan Raj Mohan Raj Mohan Raj is an Indian film actor primarily works in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu languages. Mohan Raj is known for his outstanding performance in the Malayalam film Kireedom and its sequel Chenkol as Keerikkadan Jose. Interestingly people identify him as Keerikkadan Jose only...
Shyama
Valsala Menon

Reception

The movie is a superhit. An incident was happened on the release day at Thrissur

Thrissur

This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...

Jose theatre that 15 people were injured and 1 died due to rush for the movie.