High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abhimanyu is a Malayalam movie released in 1991 directed by Priyadarshan featuring Mohanlal, Geetha, and Shankar in the lead roles. The plot revolved around Mumbai 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. The movie was later dubbed and released in Hindi with the title Satyaghath - Crime Never Pays. Art direction was by Thotta Tharani.