India Narasimham returned 10.9× its production cost, earning $500K against a $46K budget — one of the highest-return India films in our catalog.
Synopsis
നരസിംഹം
Poovalli Induchoodan (Mohanlal) is sentenced for six years prison life for murdering his classmate. Induchoodan, the only son of Justice Maranchery Karunakara Menon (Thilakan) was framed in the case by Manapally Madhavan Nambiar (Narayanan Nair) and his crony DYSP Sankaranarayanan (Bheeman Raghu) to take revenge on idealist judge Menon who had earlier given jail sentence to Manapally in a corruption case. The story begins with Induchoodan released and his father & mother coming to stay with him.
The 1999–2001 India Window
83 India films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Narasimham sits at position #6.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Narasimham. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Aashirvad Cinemas
The 2000s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2000s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Narasimham premiered. 454 total titles in this decade from India.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 55m runtime, production spent $262 per minute on screen and earned $3K per minute back.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #193 of 1,983 India films indexed here (90th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.1 points above the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Action productions specifically: #43 of 637 (top 7%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Malayalam |
| Production Companies | Aashirvad Cinemas |
| Runtime | 2h 55m |
| Release Date | January 26, 2000 |
| IMDb | tt0273870 |