Aadu (film)

Aadu
File:Aadu (film).jpg Theatrical poster
Directed by	Midhun Manuel Thomas
Written by	Midhun Manuel Thomas
Produced by	Vijay Babu Sandra Thomas
Starring	Jayasurya Sunny Wayne Vinayakan Renji Panicker Vijay Babu Vineeth Mohan
Narrated by	Mamukkoya
Cinematography	Vishnu Narayan
Edited by	Lijo Paul
Music by	Shaan Rahman
Production company	Friday Film House
Distributed by	Friday Tickets
Release date	6 February 2015 (2015-02-06)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Aadu Oru Bheegara Jeeviyanu ([Goat is a Dangerous Animal] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a 2015 Malayalam low comedy road movie written and directed by Midhun Manuel Thomas. The cast includes Jayasurya, Vijay Babu, Vinayakan, Saiju Kurup, Vineeth Mohan, Srinda Ashab, Sunny Wayne, Renji Panicker, Sandra Thomas, Bhagath Manual, Chemban Vinod Jose, Indrans, Dharmajan, Biju Kuttan and Harikrishnan. It was produced by Vijay Babu and Sandra Thomas under Friday Film House.

Plot

The film opens in Bangkok, Thailand, with an ungainly henchman named Dude (Vinayakan) being roped in by his boss, to fetch an exotic herb known as Neelakkoduveli, which is believed in the film universe to bring eternal fortune to its bearer. Somewhere in Kerala, Shaji Paappan (Jayasurya) is the captain of a tug-of-war team hailing from the high range, known officially as Winners Pothumukku. All the members are illiterate young men who are into a loafer lifestyle including alcohol and outing. They manage to win a tournament and celebrate. Along with the cash prize and the trophy, they also receive a female goat as well. Lolan (Harikrishnan), one of the team members, names the goat "Pinky". Shaji isn't of trusting nature, which is revealed to be a result of his wife (Srinda) eloping with his unfaithful driver (Aju Varghese). He allows the goat (whose gender greatly irked him) inside his van, after Arakkal Abu (Saiju Kurup) assures he will slaughter it and have it as barbecue.

The decision lands them into a slew of hilarious problems, as the team crashes into a tree, with a coconut falling on the head of Captain Cleetus, leaving him with cognitive slippage. As the team expects Arakkal Abu to do the slaughter, his cowardice is revealed. This situational inconvenience makes Shaji Paappan mad, who determines to eliminate or eat the goat at any cost.

After a few failed attempts, they accidentally run into inspector Shameer (Vijay Babu). He is also known as Sarbath Shameer, for his habit of ramming the culprits' forehead on a lemon placed on a table, and drinking its juice. As Shameer interrogates the team on grounds of drunken driving, Menaka Kanthan (Sandra Thomas), an animal welfare activist accuses the group for conducting sodomy and presses charges. However, the team are allowed to go.

In the meantime, Dude and his boys arrive in Kerala in search of Neelakkoduveli which is now in possession of Satan Xavier (Sunny Wayne), a high-profile drug dealer in the high range. Kanjavu Soman makes a deal with Dude to retrieve the herb from Xavier. En route, Soman was robbed of the chest containing Neelakkoduveli, by masked assailants wearing caps. He reports the mishap to Dude. Shaji Paappan and the team runs into the Dude' henchman they knock out Shaji and capture Abu along with Pinky as hostages. Because Dude believes Abu to be the thief, as he was wearing his traditional cap, similar to Soman's assailants.

Somewhere else, a veteran left wing leader named P.P Sasi (Indrans) gets into legal trouble as he foolishly discloses the politically driven murder hits to the public. When the police comes to arrest him, Sasi elopes from them. As Shaji Pappan is worried about Abu, a ransom video sent to the team by Dude's boys betray the location of their hideout. Shaji and friends rush to the place and rescues Abu and Pinky. However, they run into Shameer and in crossways with Dude, who madly opens fire. In the end, Abu and Pinky are captured once again.

With new lead in hand, Shameer apprehends Soman and Hakkim, the right-hand men of P.P Sasi Aassaan, to counter his armed adversaries. Shaji Paappan unwillingly decides to seek help from his elder brother Thomas Paappan (Renji Panicker) whom Shaji hates. As an iron-smith Thomas Paappan arms the group with rifles to confront Dude and his thugs. The century old rifles turns out to be useless. But they defeat Dude and save Abu and Pinky.

Refusing to give up, Dude pulls out his gun and points at Shaji. Thomas arrives and manages to shoot the gun away. Thomas appears to be a poor marksman like and runs away on seeing the police beside the gang. Sasi, who was hiding in an empty water tank, is exposed out of his hiding. Shameer apprehends the Dude and Sasi's groups, leaving Shaji and friends on their own.

Shameer is being praised by his superior officer, on recovering the Neelakkoduveli. However when the trunk is uncovering there was only cowdung. Satan Xavier ran out of luck due to the transfer of Neelakkoduveli, resulting in his weed forest being burned down by police. Shameer gets suspended due to his negligence, which then results in getting himself beaten up by the vengeful public.

Without being able to retrieve the herb, Dude decides to finish off Soman. In a flashback facts oblivious to everybody else in the film universe is shown. Soman, didnt had the intention to hand over Neelakkoduveli to Dude and switched the herb chest with a decoy trunk filled with dung. As he was getting away with the valuable chest, he runs into an elephant pit, accidentally throwing the chest outside. When Soman came back to his senses, he discovers that Pinky had eaten away the Neelakkoduveli from the popped open chest. The power of the exotic herb might have rendered Pinky auspicious, which might be a the reason why the ewe lamb didn't get harmed.

Pappan finally manages to sell off Pinky to a butcher. On the sight of his friends' evoked grievances while the goat was being dragged away he feels a stroke of sympathy. As he calls the goat, he meets a girl with the same name (Swathi Reddy). His friends are delighted to see Pinky safe and Shaji Paappan finds a girl who might be his prospective wife.

Cast

• Jayasurya as Shaji Pappan
• Nanny Goat as Pinky Goat
• Vijay Babu as S.I. Sarbath Shemeer
• Vinayakan as Dude
• Sunny Wayne as Satan Xavier
• Saiju Kurup as Arakkal Abu
• Vineeth Mohan as Kuttan Moonga
• Indrans as P.P Sasi Aashan
• Dharmajan Bolgatty as Sachin Cleetus a.k.a. Captain Cleetus
• Harikrishnan as Lalan P. K. aka Lolan
• Bhagath Manuel as Krishnan Mandaram
• Unni Raja as Bastin Pathrose
• Renji Panicker as Thomas Paappan
• Sandra Thomas as Menaka Kanthan
• Chemban Vinod Jose as High Range Hakkim
• Anjali Aneesh Upasana as Usha
• Sudhi Koppa as Kanjavu Soman
• Nelson as Dragon Paili
• Sraavan as Sakhavu K. P.
• Pradeep Kottayam as Head Constable
• Aju Varghese as Driver Ponnappan (cameo)
• Swathi Reddy as Pinky (cameo)
• Srinda Ashab as Mary, Shaji Pappan's wife (cameo)
• Blessy Kurien as Veterinary Doctor
• Bijukuttan as Battery Simon (cameo)
• Chembil Ashokan as Vaidyar (cameo)

Reception

Upon release, the film received mixed to negative response. Akhila of FilmiBeat stated "Film fails to meet the expectations raised by the first looks and promotion". Veeyen of nowrunning.com said "'Aadu Oru Bheekara Jeevi Aanu' is a fiasco of colossal proportions that is little more than a series of insipid conversations between supposedly hilarious characters. Suffering from some severely smug writing, 'Aadu Oru Bheekara Jeevi Aanu'" is iffy stuff that delivers none of the promises that it makes, which includes serving a few earnest laughs as well.Although it was a box office bomb, it obtained great fan following since its dvd release. Each and every character of the film started to get a great fan following.Later on the movie as well as shaji pappan has recieved a cult status so much so that the director and the entire team was forced to think of a sequel and is currently in work "

Music

Untitled

The original soundtrack and background score were composed by Shaan Rahman, with lyrics by Manu Manjith.

Soundtrack

#Title	Singer(s)	Lyrics	Length
Chingaariyaadu	Harsha K. H., Jayasurya, Muhammad Ashad	Manu Manjith	2.51
Kodikayarana	Anwar Sadath, Shaan Rahman	Manu Manjith	2.32

Background score

#Title	Singer(s)	Lyrics	Length
Shaaji Paappan	Anwar Sadath, Shaan Rahman	Manu Manjith	00.52
Abu Bheekaran	Anwar Sadath, Shaan Rahman	Manu Manjith	00.54
Dude	Anwar Sadath, Shaan Rahman	Manu Manjith	00.46
Sarbath Shameer	Anwar Sadath, Shaan Rahman	Manu Manjith	00.50
Sathan Xavier	Shaan Rahman	Manu Manjith	00.52
Shashi Ashan	Muhammad Ashad, Shaan Rahman	Manu Manjith	00.46

External links

• Official Facebook Page
• Aadu at IMDb