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Railway Coolie

2001 Indian film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ132125860 ↗
Source-derived summary

Railway Coolie is a 2001 Indian Telugu-language action crime film directed by Kodi Ramakrishna and starring Mammootty, Meena, Harish Kumar and Roja. The film is a remake of the 1975 Hindi film Deewaar.

Cast

Production

The third schedule of the film took place at the end of April 1993 in Visakhapatnam.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Sirpy. The lyrics were written by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry and Jonnavittula Ramalingeswara Rao.

Tamil (dubbed) tracklisting

Release and reception

The film was released after an eight year delay in 2001.

A critic from Full Hyderabad wrote, "The stupid drama rolls on and on in the most insipid way. There is not one incident or event in the film that is worth mentioning".

Editorial summary

“Railway Coolie” enters the record as 2001 Indian film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Railway, Coolie and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1975, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Railway, Coolie and Indian.
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Why this record matters

“Railway Coolie” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Railway, Coolie and Indian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q132125860. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001, 1975 and 1993.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Railway Coolie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.