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Ko is a film of genre Thriller directed by K. V. Anand with Jiiva

Ko (2011)

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Length 2h45
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Genres Thriller,    Action
Rating78% 3.945143.945143.945143.945143.94514

Ko (Tamil: கோ, English: King) is a 2011 Indian Tamil political thriller film directed by K. V. Anand, starring Jiiva, Ajmal Ameer, Karthika Nair and Piaa Bajpai. The film was released on 22 April 2011 to mostly positive reviews, and was dubbed into Telugu as Rangam as well. This movie was a blockbuster. A sequel to the film will be going to release on Diwali 2015 with a different crew and cast titled as Ko 2.

The film's plot outline is inspired from the 2009 film State of Play Based on an online poll conducted by The Times of India, it won the Best Film Award for 2011.

Synopsis

Ashwin Kumar (Jiiva) is a photojournalist working for the private newspaper Dina Anjal. He witnesses Naxalites robbing a local bank. He chases them and manages to click photos of the robbers. When he tries to escape, he is stopped by a young woman Renuka 'renu' (Karthika Nair) who assumes he is the culprit and helps the robbers to take his camera. However, he is able to secure the memory card of the camera. The police catch him, and to prove that he is a press photographer, he shows the photos to the them, who identify everyone except the gang leader (whose face is covered by a mask). At his office, he again meets Renuka, who has newly joined as Article Editor. Saraswathi 'saro' (Piaa Bajpai) also works in his office and has feelings for Ashwin, who does not reciprocate.

Actors

Jiiva

(Ashwin Kumar Jayaraman)
Karthika Nair

(Renuka Narayanan "Renu")
Ajmal Ameer

(Vasanthan Perumal)
Piaa Bajpai

(Saraswathi "Saro")
Prakash Raj

(Chief Minister Yogeswaran)
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