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Soorya Kireedam

2007 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7562752 ↗
Source-derived summary

Soorya Kireedam is a 2007 Indian Malayalam language horror film. It was released in 2007, starring Nishanth Sagar,Shammi Thilakan, Ramya Nambeesan in lead roles with Indrajith Sukumaran, Nithya Das and Alexander Prasanth.It is part of the Soorya Trilogy

Plot

An exorcist arrives to save a young girl who is seemingly possessed by a ghost. A young girl begins to behave strangely and displays mysterious powers. This leads her family to believe that she has been possessed by an evil spirit. As things begin to get more dangerous, an exorcist enters. Will he get rid of the ghost or is there something stronger at work?

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Soorya Kireedam” as 2007 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Soorya, Kireedam and film.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Soorya, Kireedam and film providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Soorya Kireedam”, the useful work is to connect “2007 film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7562752. The first chronological checks are 2007.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Soorya Kireedam”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Soorya Kireedam primary sources, Soorya Kireedam archive and Soorya research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Soorya Kireedam” 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.