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 Rajan P. Dev K. B. Ganesh Kumar N. F. Varghese Karamana Janardanan Nair Maniyanpilla Raju
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. It stars Suresh Gopi as police commissioner Bharathchandran IPS, and also features Ratheesh, Shobana, Vijayaraghavan, M. G. Soman, Rajan P. Dev, K. B. Ganesh Kumar, N. F. Varghese, Karamana Janardanan Nair, and Maniyanpilla Raju in pivotal roles. The background score was composed by Rajamani.

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, directed by Ranji Panicker. In 2012, a crossover film titled The King & the Commissioner, with the characters from The King (1995), Commissioner (1994) and Bharath Chandran I.P.S. (2005) was released and both of the films were blockbusters