Chakkikotha Chankaran
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| Chakkikotha Chankaran | |
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| Directed by | Krishnakumar |
| Written by | VR Gopalakrishnan |
| Produced by | R. Mohan |
| Starring | Jayaram Nedumudi Venu Uravashi Geetha Thilakan Sukumari |
| Cinematography | Vijayakumar |
| Edited by | A. Paul Durai Singham |
| Music by | Shankar Ganesh |
Release date | 1989 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Chakkikotha Chankaran is 1989 Malayalam comedy film, made in India, starring Jayaram and Urvashi. This is also the last film of Adoor Bhasi.The movie was remade in Kannada as Mana Mecchida Sose and went on to inspire the 2012 Punjabi movie Carry On Jatta which was remade in Telugu as Eedo Rakam Aado Rakam, in Odia as Pilata Bigidigala and in Bengali as Dhat Teri Ki.
Plot
The movie starts with Pradeep enjoying a cricket match.Raghavan Thampi and his wife Subhadra are looking for brides for their sons Prabhakaran and Pradeep. Prabhakaran is aspiring to become a great Mridangam player, against the wishes of his family, while Pradeep is a bank employee. Subharda tries to commit suicide in front of Prabhakaran because he refused to marry Shailaja. Then finally Prabhakaran commits to marry Shailaja. After marriage Prabhakaran scolds Shailaja for any mistakes severely. One day on the insistence of his parents Prabhakaran takes Shailaja to watch a movie. On their way they encounter some goons who make fun of Prabhakaran who was too afraid to face them. He tries to ignore them but in the end their abuses turned out to be too much for his wife.Shailaja turned out to be a Karate expert. She fights the goons with her saree tucked in. The goons have no chance in front of Shailaja as her Karate kicks and punches are too good for them. On the same day at night Shailaja has a dream where she sees that her husband is being attacked by the same goons and she has to again fight them. Pradeep falls in love with Roshini, and they get married secretly in a temple. Pradeep and Roshini marry secretly to hide the marriage from his family. Roshini and Shailaja turned out to be old friends. Hence Roshini takes Pradeep to stay in his own house. After which Pradeep tries every possible trick to get out of the house. He asks his brother for help. Prabhakaran devises a plan in which he will try to prove that Roshini is a thief in front of other family members so that they are thrown out of the house. The plan fails and Prabhakaran himself is caught by the police. He is released after the original thief commits that he is the one who stole the jewellery. In the end Roshini is kidnapped by her stalker. Pradeep goes to save her. But both are caught by the police. The entire family reaches the police station to get him released. During this process some goons who are captured by the constable reach there. One of them takes Shailaja captive. Shailaja bashes up the goons with her Karate kicks in a saree. Eventually a bomb blows up the police station but the entire family escapes unhurt.
The recent Punjabi movie #carryonjatta released in the year 2012 is an inspiration from the plot of this movie.
Cast
- Jayaram ... Pradeep Thampi
- Nedumudi Venu ... Prabhakaran Thampi
- Thilakan ... Raghavan Thampi
- Urvashi ... Roshney
- Geetha ... Shailaja
- Sukumari ... Subhadra Kunjamma
- Jose
- Jagathi Sreekumar ... Ouseppu
- Adoor Bhasi ... Madhava Menon
- Lalithasree
- Kunchan ... Police Officer
- Bobby Kottarakkara ... Sankara Pillai
- Sankaradi ... Police Officer
- Pattom Sadan
- Innocent ... Bhagavathar
Production notes
Actress Geetha's fight scene is a highlight in this movie. She fights in saree with the goons.