Commissioner (film)

Commissioner
Poster
Directed by	Shaji Kailas
Written by	Ranji Panicker
Produced by	M. Mani
Starring	Suresh Gopi Ratheesh Shobana Vijayaraghavan M. G. Soman
Cinematography	Dinesh Baboo
Edited by	L. Bhoominathan
Music by	Rajamani
Production company	Sunitha Productions
Distributed by	Aroma Release
Release date	14 April 1994 (1994-04-14)
Running time	175 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Commissioner is a 1994 Indian Malayalam-language neo-noir action thriller film directed by Shaji Kailas, written by Ranji Panicker, and produced by M. Mani under Sunitha Productions. It stars Suresh Gopi, alongside Ratheesh, Shobana, Vijayaraghavan, M. G. Soman, Rajan P. Dev, K. B. Ganesh Kumar, N. F. Varghese, Karamana Janardanan Nair and Maniyanpilla Raju. The musical score was composed by Rajamani, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Dinesh Baboo and L. Bhoominathan respectively.

Commissioner became the highest grossing Malayalam film of 1994, which earned Suresh Gopi the status of an Action Superstar. It is a cult film among Malayali audiences, with several dialogues becoming very famous and remaining so even decades later.^[1] The Telugu dubbed version Police Commissioner was also a major commercial success.

The sequel titled Bharath Chandran I.P.S. was released in 2005, with Ranji Panicker replacing Shaji Kailas as the director. In 2012, a crossover film titled The King & the Commissioner, with the characters from The King (which was released in 1995) and Commissioner was released in 2012.