Udayon
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| Directed by | Bhadran |
| Written by | Bhadran |
| Produced by | Maha Subair |
| Starring | Mohanlal Laya Kalabhavan Mani Manoj K. Jayan Innocent Nassar Salim Ghouse |
| Cinematography | Ramachandra Babu |
| Edited by | Ranjan Abraham |
| Music by | Ouseppachan |
Production company | Varnachithra Big Screen |
| Distributed by | Varnachithra Release |
Release date | 15 July 2005 |
Running time | 180 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Udayon (transl. Creator) is a 2005 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film written and directed by Bhadran and produced by Maha Subair. It stars Mohanlal in dual roles: 75-year-old farmer Suranadu Kunju and his happy-go-lucky son Papoyi, Laya plays the female lead role and also features Manoj K. Jayan, Kalabhavan Mani, Innocent, Jagathy Sreekumar, and Salim Ghouse in substantial roles. The film features original soundtrack composed by Ouseppachan.
Plot
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Mohanlal plays the double role of 75-year-old Suranadu Kunju and his son Papoyi. Kunju thinks that the heartbeat of earth is in soil and not in maths. His beliefs on the land and agrarianism is good but his value system that farmers and farming is more important and better is not. He does not let his sons pursue their interest and wants them to do farming also. Which leads in they becoming negative towards father. Also when he tries to marry off his daughter to an ugly but farming loving another narrow minded character instead of an educated handsome doctor makes them feel that the father is destroying and spoiling their lives with his stubbornness and high handedness.
The presence of a villainous brother in law to his sister's son JCB (he drives a JCB played by Kalabhavan Mani) adds a twist as he interferes in the family property dispute. All said and done the sister doesn't want evil to her brother and her younger son the mute also doesn't want. Papoyi tries to save things but never has luck ultimately he tries and prevents many a bad scene but cannot prevent his youngest brother being killed and Kunju kills the villainous brother in law Perumal (Salim Ghouse) who does the evil deed and gives the family property keys to sister and the patriarch stick to Papoyi after the death of his youngest kid Ponnan.
Cast
- Mohanlal as Shooranad Kunju (Kunjipapa) and Shooranad Papoyi, a farmer and his second son
- Jagathy Sreekumar as Shavappetty Thoma, first son of Ichamma
- Manoj K. Jayan as Pottan, youngest son of Ichamma
- Laya as Maya
- Innocent as Rarichan, first son of Kunju
- Kalabhavan Mani as Mathan, second son of Ichamma
- Siddique as Mammali
- Shammi Thilakan as S.I Itti
- Bheeman Raghu as Police
- Mohan Jose as Manthodi Joppan
- Sadiq as Pappoy's friend
- Kulappulli Leela as Bullet Kuttiyamma
- Rajan P. Dev as Chetti
- M. R. Gopakumar as Chackochi, Ichamma's husband
- Idavela Babu as Itti, third son of Kunju
- Salim Ghouse as Perumal
- Nassar as Unni Vaidyan
- Bindu Panicker as Ichamma
- Rekha
- Sukanya as Susiemol, only daughter of Kunju
- Ambika Mohan as Rarichan's wife
- V. K. Sreeraman as Advocate Sreedharan
- Kochu Preman as Kangaroo, Bus conductor
- Vinayakan as Thoma's helper
- Valsala Menon
- Kalpana as Kunjujamma
- Unnikrishnan Namboothiri as Priest
- Kuku Paremeswaran as Malli
- Master Adarsh as Ponnan, youngest son of Kunju
- Baby Akshai as Son of Kuku Paremeswaran
- Vinod Therattil as Person helping Papoyi during bus accident
Production
Jyothika was offered to act as lead actress with Mohanlal. But she could not do it due to her busy schedules in Tamil.[1] She was later replaced by Telugu actress Laya.
Soundtrack
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Release
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References
- ^ "Jo is the new `Chandramukhi`". Sify.com. 18 November 2004. Archived from the original on 25 September 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2011.