Kalippattam

Kalippattam
Directed by	Venu Nagavalli
Written by	Venu Nagavalli
Starring	Mohanlal Urvashi
Music by	Raveendran
Release date(s)	1993
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Kalippattam is a 1993 Malayalam film written and directed by Venu Nagavalli and starring Mohanlal, Urvashi, Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Jagathy and Nedumudi Venu in pivotal roles. Mohanlal also sang a song ("Vazhiyoram") with Chithra for the film. The story is about the love between a violinist played by Mohanlal and a terminally ill girl played by Urvashi.

Plot

In the first scene, we are shown an old aristocratic man named Venu (Mohanlal) who came with flowers to strew his lady's grave. The story is narrated through his memories. Venu was an educated young man but unemployed. After a long search and many disappointments, he is appointed by Menon (Thilakan), a wealthy businessman, to teach violin to his only daughter Sarojam (Urvashi). Sarojam was terminally ill with epilectic anaemia (actually there is no such disease though), about which she wasn't aware of. Menon was ready to do anything for her for this reason. Sarojam eventually fell in love with Venu and asks Menon to let her marry him. Menon tells Venu about the illness and asks him whether he was ready for the marriage. Menon offers him all the wealth and the complete authority of his family business. Venu, who had a lot of responsibilities of his own, accepts the offer and gets married to Sarojam. Initially, he pretended to love her as he felt sympathetic for her and wanted to make her happy always. However, gradually he falls in true love with her and an inseparable relation blossoms between them. After a few months, Sarojam gives birth to a daughter (Ammu).

After Ammu is a few years old, Sarojam develops severe symptoms of the disease. Dr. Menon (Soman) suggests that bone marrow transplantation has a chance of recovery in her. After the surgery, Sarojam seems to recover but soon her condition worsens and she dies in the hands of Venu. Then we are shown the first scene, which was Venu standing aside Sarojam's grave. After a while, Unni, a close friend of Venu comes there to inform him that his daughter Ammu is also affected with the same disease. Venu is shocked but he was not allowed to cry even as Ammu should never know about this. The heartbroken Venu returns to his bungalow with Ammu. There he had a strange visitor named Hari (Vineeth), an unemployed young man, who came there with a recommendation letter for a job. Soon, Venu realises that, what has happened in his and Sarojam's life is getting repeated in his daughter's life too, through Hari. He allows Hari to stay there and in the last scene, it is shown Venu calling Hari to his room, in a similar way he was called by Menon for Sarojam's proposal.

Cast

• Mohanlal as Venu
• Urvashi as Sarojam, Venu's wife
• Thilakan as Menon, Sarojam's father
• Jagathy as Unni, Venu's friend
• Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Sarojam's mother
• Nedumudi Venu as Freddy Uncle, Menon's friend
• Siddique as Venu's friend
• Mamukkoya as Venu's friend
• Premkumar as security guard
• K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Venu's mother
• Kalpana as Venu's younger sister
• Bindu Panicker as Venu's younger sister
• K. R. Vijaya as Doctor
• Aranmula Ponnamma as Venu's grandmother
• Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair as Venu's grandfather
• Ganesh Kumar as Renji, a relative of Menon
• Sivaji as Renji's friend
• Nandu as the horse cart driver
• Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Karunan Chittappan
• Soman as Dr. Warrier
• Vineeth as Hari

External links

• Kalippattam at the Internet Movie Database
• Kalippattam at the Malayalam Movie Database