Akam (film)

Akam
Theatrical Release Poster
Directed byShalini Usha Nair
Screenplay byShalini Usha Nair
Based onYakshi
by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan
Produced byBox Office Cinema
StarringFahadh Faasil
Anumol
CinematographyChristopher John Smith
Edited byArunima Shankar
Music byDeepak Raghu
Murari Vasudevan
Production
company
Box Office Cinema
Release dates
  • December 2011 (2011-12) (DIFF)
  • 26 April 2013 (2013-04-26) (India)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Akam (English: Inside) is an Indian Malayalam language thriller drama film written and directed by Shalini Usha Nair. The film is a contemporary retelling of Malayattoor Ramakrishnan's classic psycho-thriller novel Yakshi (1967). The story is about Srini (Fahadh Faasil), a young architect, who starts suspecting that his beautiful wife Ragini (Anumol) is a yakshi.

The film was shot in and around Trivandrum and its surrounding suburbs.[1] It premiered at the 8th Dubai International Film Festival in December 2011.[2] It was also screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival and International Film Festival of Kerala. The film released in theatres on 26 April 2013.

  1. ^ Saraswathy Nagarajan (25 May 2012). "Shanghai beckons". The Hindu. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Akam premieres at Dubai film fest" Archived 11 September 2012 at archive.today. Screen India. 30 December 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2012.