Abhimanyu is a Malayalam crime drama film released in 1991 directed by Priyadarshan featuring Mohanlal, Geetha, and Shankar in the lead roles. The plot revolves around Mumbai(then Bombay) underworld and the transformation of an innocent guy into a criminal, who later becomes a don in the city. The tagline of the movie is Crime Never Pays. Its Tamil dubbed version Arasan was a success. The movie was later dubbed and released in Hindi with the title Satyaghath Crime Never Pays. The movie was noted for its epic screenplay, direction and background score. It became a cult classic. Art direction was by Thotta Tharani. It was remade in Tamil as Thalai Nagaram and in Kannada as Devru.

Directed by : Priyadarshan
Written by : T. Damodaran
Produced by : V. B. K. Menon
Starring : Mohanlal, Shankar, Geetha, K. B. Ganesh Kumar
Cinematography : Jeeva
Edited by : N. Gopalakrishnan
Music by :
Songs : Raveendran
Background Score : Johnson
Production company : Anugraha Cine Arts
Distributed by : Anugraha Release
Release date : 21 December 1991

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