Pokkiri Raja (2010 film)
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| Directed by | Vyshakh Abraham |
| Written by | Sibi K Thomas, Udayakrishnan |
| Produced by | Tomichan Mulakupadam |
| Starring | Mammootty Prithviraj Sukumaran Shriya Saran |
| Music by | Jassie Gift |
| Distributed by | Mulakupadam |
Release date | May 7, 2010 |
Running time | 136 minutes |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Budget | 8.5 crores |
| Box office | app.24.7 crores (June first week) |
Pokkiri Raja is a 2010 Malayalam movie starring Mammootty, Prithviraj Sukumaran and Shriya Saran in the lead. The movie was directed by newcomer Vaishakh Abraham. The film released on May 7, 2010 in Kerala[1]. The music was done by Jassie Gift and there were five songs in the movie. This was the second movie in which Mammootty and Prithviraj came together after the movie One Way Ticket.
Plot
The movie revolves arround Madhavan Nair who unknowingly kills a teenager and his eldest son Raja take the blame and is sentnced to jail for five years . After returning from jail Raja moves to Madhurai and there he resecuse the life of the daughter of Maniannai, the village land lord and then Raja turns his right hand and he is named as Madhurai Raja ... Years later turned to be Known as Pokkiri Raja. The movie begins with a flash back story of two brothers Raja ( Mammootty ) and Surya ( Prithviraj ). Raja and Surya enter into a fight with a rival gang and gets involved in certain scuffles with the gang. Raja elopes to Madurai and later becomes a very popular don there. With a walrus moustache, broken English and his travel in BMW, Raja tries to create laughs among the audience.
The first half of the story deals with Surya, Raja's brother. Both Raja and Surya is capable of handling any number of people at a stretch, sing, dance and even capable of giving punch dialogues every now and then. At one point of time Surya enters into a trouble and that marks the entry of Raja to rescue his brother.
Mean while Surya the younger son of madhavan nair is a young energitic and educated naughty guy who is well famous for his rowdisim in his village and he is sent to ernakulam to his brother law Sugunan to change his character, who is scary cat. In ernakulam Surya fells in love with Aswathy unknowingly that she is the daughter of the City Police Commissioner. Sugunan used to take the advantage of the character of Surya and sent him in his uniform for some of the severe police cases. And Surya get arressted for this offence and the commissioner find that he is in love with his daughter and charges Surya another drug case and make it a non bailable offence. Mean while the commissioner plans to murder Surya in the jail and gives the contract to Pokkiri Raja. And signs the contract for 25 lakhs. At this point of time Madhavan Nair moves to Madhurai in search of his elder son who left to Madhurai 10 years back and finds that Pokkiri Raja is his elder son and ask his help to resecue his younger son Surya.
At this point the movie take a twist that Raja has already signed the contract for murdering Surya , Who is actually his younger brother whom he has seen 10 years ago.
Cast
- Mammootty as Pokkiri Raja aka Madhurai Raja
- Prithviraj as Soorya
- Shriya Saran as Aswathy
- Nedumudi Venu as Madhavan Nair
- Siddique as City Police Commissioner Rajendra Babu
- Suraj Venjaramood as Sugunan
- Salim Kumar as Manoharan
- Vijayaraghavan
- Riyaz Khan
- Bindu Panicker
- Delhi Ganesh
- Kalashala Babu
- Rizabava
- Arjun Bose
- Paravai Muniyamma
- Thesni Khan
Production
The film's score and soundtrack are composed by the musical duo,Jassie Gift with lyrics by renowned lyricist, Kaithapuram Vishvanathan.
The movie starts from the flashback thrilling tale. Shooting of the film began in August 2009 at various locations at Pollachi.
Prithviraj's song 'Manikyakallin mukkuticharhtum' song was first shooted, in this song Swetha Menon was also dancing with Prithviraaj with mix of childwood memories of Prithviraj and (Mammootty).The song 'Manikinavin Kothumbuvellam' song was shooted at various locations at Ernakulam.
The shooting completes within 50 days with a production cost of 7 crores and distribution works were start at April.
Audio launch was at April at Ernakulam.
The film was released on May 7 with an outstanding initial collection.
Pokkiriraja released in 98 prints in Kerala.
Soundtrack
The movie has five songs, in these one is theme music of Pokkiri Raja featuring Mammootty.
The soundtrack for the film released on 8 April 2010.
Several music sites gave the music 4 out of 5 stars saying that Pokkiriraja is easily one of the most complete scores by JassieGift after For the people.
The song 'Kettile Kettile' and 'Manikinavin Kothumbuvellam' song were first accepted by the people.But after the great success of the movie that 'Chenthengil' and 'Mukkutikavan' songs were become hit.In these 'Chenthengil ponalaneer' was the chartbusting song, in which Mammootty was dancing in a freak style costumes with Prithviraj.
Songs 1. Song: Manikinavain
Impressively sung by K J Yesudas and Sujatha, the song is a winner form the word go. This is one of the best songs rendered in the sound of Yesudas in the recent times. The lyrics by Kaithapram also are admirable with very direct, simple lines that are easy on ears. This melody song is very well orchestrated to ferry the listener to a different globe and stand apart from normal Jassie numbers, putting forward an irresistible piece for repeat hearing.
2. Song: Kettille, Kettille
Sung by Vijay Yesudas, Prithviraj and Ridhya, the song is another fast number .Set in that typical Mathura beat, the singers has infused the energy for this foot tapping number in typical heavy Tamil’ish orchestration. Prithviraj as a singer is most admirable in this song who matches with Vijay Yesudas in every count. Pictured as a marriage song with Mammootty and Prithviraj dancing for its tunes, the song is already a chart topper. The song is repeated with the voice of Anwar replacing Prithvi in the repeat tracks. Both the versions are good and fine.
3. Song: Manickya Kallil
Jassie, Malathy and Ananthu sing this feverish number patterned like dance songs of Vijay films. The composer himself gets behind the mike and enthralls with this boisterously voiced hip-shaking track. The song has interesting deviations in the middle with soft melody interludes. Malathy’s voice appears a bit jarred, but Ananthu in the opening bit is excellent. The ‘dhol’ beat pattern music makes a pertinent set of rhythmical moves all through, to deliver out rapturous festive feel on the floors.
4. Song: Chenthengil Ponnilaneeru
Renjith, Anwar, Suchithra, Ridhya croons this foot tapper. The song has the right mood of fun and the racy beats add to the effect. A sort of techno music that beats the ramp floor is the characteristic backup in the entire track with singers dominating the tracks
’Pokkirir Raja’ is that much expected comeback from Jassie Gift, who seems to have done an excellent job in setting tracks that match a festive mood. Altogether an album meant for dance, Jassie Gift can list this album among his list of good ones. Presented by East coast, the album also contains some good songs for the movie ‘Navagathan’ set to music by Britto Simon.
Reception
The movie overwhelmingly positive reviews from the critics and from several movie sites.And the movie become biggest chart buster of malayalam.The Mammootty fans got a very satisfactory movie from the new come director Vyshakh.The movie got 11.2 crores from it's first two weeks run and declares the movie Megahit.
The movie review site indiaglitz says the movie must watch and rediff.com gave the movie rating 4/5.The now running site gave the movie was astonishes by the squandering of talent in a film as this that is unpardonable. You have two of the best actors in business, a whopping supporting cast, a sizzler actress as the female lead, an amazing technical crew, and what not? And you go ahead and tell a story that resembles sugarcane pulp, beaten to death and with all the sap squeezed out to the last drop.
There are two apparently warring families in some godforsaken village where there is a huge furor every time the temple festival comes up. Raja, (Mammotty) the eldest of the two sons of the village teacher (Nedumudi Venu) gets involved in one such ruckus and flees never to return. The younger son Surya (Prithviraj) meanwhile keeps missing his brother like hell (he even sings a couple of lines about good ol' bro while shaking a leg with Shwetha Menon) when he is not chasing the City Commissioner's daughter Aswathy (Shreya). They meet of course. Just don't ask me where and how.
It's a daunting task to do an analysis of a film as this, for where does one start? Ah yes! The script of course. How many times more would we be made to sit through this story, the exact setting, the Xeroxed characters and the very same everything else? How many more times would we see the eldest son sacrificing everything and ending up a thug? How many more times would we be able to endure familial feuds?
The dialogues are what actually take the cake. So we have Raja making a loud proclamation to Surya that its just not enough that he builds up muscles; he needs to learn to act as well. An ever so obedient and humble Surya retorts that he's just a kid, and that by the time he grows up to be his brother's age, he would win an Oscar and nothing less.
When Surya takes a good hard look at Raja's traditional attire before hopping on to a dance club, Raja roars and asks if he has to take style lessons from the young chap. And of course we have Raja's sidekicks firmly asserting that his fans would take no insult lying down; be it from his younger brother or someone else.
The film that lasts for about two and a half hours remains focused on Surya for the first hour, when he gets to deliver all that he can, pack the punches, sing a song and finally get entrapped in a no-way-out spot. Along comes Raja with about a fifty cars following him, like they have just stepped out of a car showroom for a test drive. Raja shoves the kid to a corner and takes up the reigns, and believe it or not, it rains.
Mammootty saves this film from not being a total washout with his amazing screen presence. Which is to say, that the first one hour without him is the toughest to endure. Prithvi looks well-groomed, but I doubt if this film would do anything worthwhile for his surging career. Shreya is gorgeous of course, but all she has to do is to look bewildered at the brothers in action, and that she does.
Box office
Released in 98 centres in Kerala.The movie becomes the blockbuster movie of 2010 and collected almost 25crores from it's first five week run from Kerala and also got a record initial collection.
The movie was brought by satellite for whopping 2.4 crores and from music audio CD's also get a descend collection.
The movie released in Tamil nadu,Karnataka and Mumbai for more than 30 centres.