Darling Darling (2000 film)

Darling Darling
Darling Darling
	Poster
Directed by	Rajasenan
Written by	Udayakrishna; Siby K. Thomas
Produced by	Vijaya; Gopala Krishnan; Mohan
Starring	Dileep; Vineeth; Kavya Madhavan
Cinematography	K. P. Nambiathiri
Edited by	Sreekar Prasad
Music by	Ouseppachan
Production; company	V. G. M. Creations
Distributed by	V. G. M. Release
Release date	17 November 2000;
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Darling Darling is a 2000 Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film directed by Rajasenan and written by Udayakrishna and Siby K. Thomas.^[1]^[2] This love triangle movie starred Dileep, Vineeth and Kavya Madhavan.^[3]^[4] The movie was remade in Kannada in 2001 as Jodi and in Telugu in 2001 under the same name.

Plot[edit]

Subhash Chandra Bose, aka Kochu Kurup leaves his hometown because when he tried to help his friend elope with Unnithan's daughter they are caught and mistakes Koch Kurup as the one in love with Unnithan's daughter. So his parents send him to Bangalore to meet his best friend Kartik, aka Aniyankutty, who is a rich womanizer. Aniyankutty, pretending to be Kochu Kurup and goes to meet Kochu Kurup's fathers friend's daughter, Shalini. There he meets Shalini's friend Pappi aka Padmaja and introduces himself as Karthik and falls in love with Pappi. One day while driving the car Karthik hits a woman and leaves without helping her. Kochu Kurup comes across the accident and notices that no one is helping the women so he takes her to the hospital and leaves Karthik's name and phone number as he does not have an address in Bangalore. The women in the accident was Pappi's aunt and she mistakes Kochu Kurup as the one who hit her aunt and call him and threatens to sue him. When her aunt wakes up she tells Pappi that Kochu Kurup is the one who saved her, Pappi calls him and apologies. As they talk on the phone they fall in love with each other and decide to meet. While Karthik and Kochu Kurup waits for Pappi at a bus stop, Karthik finds out that his Pappi and Kochu Kurup's Padmaja are the same person. From then on Karthik sabotages all the attempts made by Kochu Kurup and Padmaja to meet each other. Meanwhile Kochu Kurup's father brings a marriage alliance to him, but he says that he is not interested, not knowing that the alliance is with Pappi herself. However, Kartik gets to know this, and he helps Kochu Kurup to cancel the wedding since he has an eye on her.

Kochu Kurup and Pappi try to elope before the marriage, unaware that the marriage scheduled for them was with each other. Aniyankutty stops Kurup on the way with the help of Unnithan's thugs so that instead of Kurup he can reach the railway station and take Pappi with him. But Pappi's family intervenes and Aniyankutty is beaten by the thugs. Pappi reaches the railway station and waits for Kochu Kurup, but when he does not show up Pappi tries to commit suicide walking down the railway track. Then Kochu Kurup shows up late and tries to find Pappi, but he could not. Then he realizes Pappi is going to commit suicide and runs to save her from the train, but he is far behind. Aniyankutty wakes up from being hit by the goons and sees Pappi walking down the railway track and the train is closing in. Aniyankutty runs and saves Pappi from the train just in time. Kochu Kurup thought Pappi was dead, but as the train passes by he sees that Aniyankutty saved her and explains everything to her. Pappi and Kochu Kurupp unite as Aniyankutty leaves to Bangalore.

Cast[edit]

Dileep as Karthik a.k.a. Aniyankutty
Vineeth as Subhash Chandra Bose a.k.a. Kochu Kurup
Kavya Madhavan as Padmaja "Pappi" Warrier
Sarath Das as Manikkuttan
Jagathy Sreekumar as Appachan
Sukumari as Sudha Warrier, Padmaja's Aunt
C. I. Paul as Palathinkal Kurup, Kochu Kurup's Father
Janardhanan as Vattaparambil Sreedharan Unnithan
Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Warrier, Padmaja's Grandfather
Indrans as Achu
Salim Kumar as Telephone Booth Owner
Chandhu as Padmaja's Brother
Babu Swamy as G. K. Menon
Radhika as Lathika
Roslin as Kochu Kurup's Mother
Geetha Nair as Menon's Wife
Ponnamma Babu as Padmaja's Mother
Bobby Kottarakkara as Unnithan's Sidekick
Praseetha Menon as Shalini
Dhanya Menon as Sarassu, Unnithan's Daughter
Ramadevi as Unnithan's Wife
Jose Pellissery as Doctor

Music[edit]

Ouseppachan composed the soundtrack and background score for this movie. One of Ouseppachan's tunes as a background score in the 1991 Malayalam movie Ulladakkam became a song in this movie, i.e., Pranaya Sougandhikangal. Lyrics by S. Ramesan Nair.

"Aniyampoo Muttathu" - M. G. Sreekumar, Santhosh Keshav
"Aniyampoo Muttathu" [Instrumental] - Ouseppachan
"Chithirappanthalittu" - K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chitra
"Darling Darling" (Version I) - S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
"Darling Darling" (Version II) - Hariharan
"Muthum Pavizhavum" (Version I) - Hariharan, Sujatha Mohan
"Muthum Pavizhavum" (Version I) - Sreenivas, Sujatha Mohan
"Pranaya Sowgandhikangal" [D] - Santhosh Keshav, K. S. Chitra
"Pranaya Sowgandhikangal" [F] - K. S. Chitra
"Pranaya Sowgandhikangal" [M] - Santhosh Keshav

References[edit]

^ "Indiainfo: Malayalam: Movie Review - Darling Darling". movies.indiainfo.com. Archived from the original on 10 February 2001. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ "Archived copy". www.keralatalkies.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2001. Retrieved 28 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Darling Darling (2000)". .Malayalasangeetham.
^ "Malayalam cinema and the multiverse of misogyny". 9 March 2022.

External links[edit]

Darling Darling at IMDb

[1] "Indiainfo: Malayalam: Movie Review - Darling Darling". movies.indiainfo.com. Archived from the original on 10 February 2001. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

[2] "Archived copy". www.keralatalkies.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2001. Retrieved 28 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "Darling Darling (2000)". .Malayalasangeetham.

[4] "Malayalam cinema and the multiverse of misogyny". 9 March 2022.

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