Vinodayathra

Vinodayathra
Directed by	Sathyan Anthikkad
Written by	Sathyan Anthikkad
Starring	Dileep Meera Jasmine Murali Mukesh Innocent KPAC Lalitha Nedumudi Venu Vijayaraghavan
Cinematography	S. Kumar
Edited by	K. Rajagopal
Music by	Ilaiyaraaja
Release date	April 5, 2007 (2007-04-05)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Vinodaythra (English: Excursion) is a 2007 Malayalam comedy-drama film written and directed by Sathyan Anthikkad, and starring Dileep, Meera Jasmine, Murali, Mukesh, Innocent, KPAC Lalitha, and Nedumudi Venu. The film was a sleeper hit in box office.

Plot

It is the story of a good natured but irresponsible young man, Vinod (Dileep) who comes to a hilly village live with his elder sister Vimala (Seetha) and brother in law, shaji (Mukesh). Shaji is an engineer and Vinod wants to learn life from him, but end up creating problems for Shaji.

Vinod meets a lot of people in the village and learns lessons of life from them, chiefly from Anupama (Meera Jasmine) whom he falls in love with. The film is a comedy, but ends up leaving a message for the audience like a typical Sathyan Anthikkadu movie.

Cast

• Dileep as Vinod
• Mukesh as Shaji Raghavan
• Meera Jasmine as Anupama
• Parvathi Menon as Rashmi
• Seetha as Vimala
• Innocent as Thankachan
• K.P.A.C. Lalitha as John Mathew's Sister
• Murali as Vijayan
• Nedumudi Venu as John Matthew
• Mammukoya as Ananthan
• Vijayaraghavan as Rajappan
• Sreelatha Namboothiri as Soshamma
• Babu Namboothiri as Vinod's father
• Reshmi Boban as Ambili
• Bindu Murali
• Sabitha Anand as Anupama's mother
• Sethulakshmi

Trivia

Mukesh had not acted in any of the movies directed by Sathyan Anthikkad till 2005 despite both being active in the film industry for more than 20 years. When asked about this in an interview, Mukesh commented in a light mood that he and Sathyan Anthikkadu belongs to same Ezhava caste and one Ezhava does not like another Ezhava prospering. Sathyan Anthikkadu immediately called up Mukesh and was cast in a guest role in his next movie Rasathanthram. Thereafter Mukesh acted in the next two movies of Sathyan Anthikkad, namely Vinodayathra and Innathe Chintha Vishayam.This movie was inspired from 2001 Korean film My Sassy Girl

Music

Untitled

The score and soundtrack of the film are composed by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja. The songs are penned by Vayalar Sarathchandra Varma. All songs became chartbusters.

Song Title	Singer
Akkikkokki	Vijay Yesudas
Kaiyetha(F)	Manjari
Kaiyetha(M)	Dr. K. J. Yesudas
Mandaarappoo mooli	Madhu Balakrishnan, Shweta Mohan
Mandaarappoo mooli (M)	Madhu Balakrishnan
Thennippaayum	Afsal, Vineeth Sreenivasan

External links

• Vinodayathra at IMDb