Kakkakuyil
Kakkakuyil | |
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Directed by | Priyadarshan |
Screenplay by | Priyadarshan |
Story by | Murali Nagavally |
Produced by | Lissy |
Starring | Mohanlal Mukesh Nedumudi Venu Sucheta Khanna Aarzoo Gowitrikar Jagathy Sreekumar Innocent |
Cinematography | S. Kumar |
Edited by | N. Gopalakrishnan |
Music by | Deepan Chaterjee S. P. Venkatesh (Score) |
Production company | Kalyani Film Society |
Release date |
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Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Kakkakuyil is a 2001 Indian Malayalam comedy drama film written, directed and produced by Priyadarshan.[1] It stars Mohanlal and Mukesh. Jyothika was selected as lead actress making her third collaboration with director Priyadarsan but was later replaced due to further commitments.[2][3] The film was released on 14 April 2001.This film was the highest grosser of that year after Ravanaprabhu
The story of the film is adapted from the 1988 English film A Fish Called Wanda and the comedy sequences involving the blind couple from the Gujarati play Aaflatoon by Mihir Bhuta which itself was adapted from Harsh Shivsharan's original Marathi play Ghar-Ghar. These sequences went on to be used in the 2006 Hindi movie Golmaal.[4][5]
Kakkakuyil was later remade in Telugu as Tappu Chesi Pappu Koodu (2002) and in Tamil as London (2005) by different directors.
Plot
Sivaraman (Mohanlal), an unemployed man, comes to Mumbai to find a job. Unfortunately he loses all his certificates but happens to find Govindan Kutty (Mukesh), who also is a jobless man (from Sivaraman's native place) wandering in Mumbai. They try to get visa from a travel agency but finds no way to gather such massive amount. Govindan Kutty persuades Sivaraman to participate in a bank robbery planned by Thomas (Cochin Haneefa) and his gang - his stammering brother Tyootty (Jagadish) and Alina (Sucheta Khanna) (who pretends to be Thomas' lover) - which puts them in more trouble as the robbery ends in vain when they hit Pothuval (Innocent). Alina secretly informs the police about the robbery and tells that the entire plan was carried out by Thomas. Thomas, before getting arrested, hides the money, and the place is kept secret except to his lawyer, Nambeeshan (Jagathy Sreekumar). Alina fakes to be in love with Nambeeshan to find the place where the money is hidden.
Meanwhile, to find a safe cover Sivaraman and Govindan Kutty plan to impersonate Kunjunni, the grandson of a rich but elderly couple, Thampuran (Nedumudi Venu) and his wife Sethu (Kaviyoor Ponnamma). They haven't seen their grandchild since his childhood. At the confusion of the moment Sivaraman and Govindankutty end up disguising with the body of Govindan Kutty and the voice of Sivaraman to make up for Kunjunni in front of the blind couple.[6] Pothuval, who knows Govindan Kutty before, makes several attempts to make the old man learn the truth, but all of them fail knowingly or unknowingly much to the luck of the Sivaraman and Govindankutty. While successfully carrying on, they are interrupted by Radhika Menon who disguises herself as the lover of Kunjunni. She calls on all the relatives of the couple by mocking them. The relatives arrive in the absence of Sivaraman. Finding no-way out Govindan Kutty pretends to have fainted unconscious and he gets admitted to the hospital. Sivaraman comes to his rescue and says that he is Dr. Gopalakrishnan, a friend of Kunjunni from America.
After many successful escapades during their drama, Govindankutty tries to steal the Lord Krishna statue for which he plays a cruel trick by placing a wooden stool in the staircase to injure the old woman which keeps all others out of the house for sometime. Sivaraman engages in a fight with Govindankutty when he tries to leave with the statue he had stolen. The old man accuses his relatives for the accident and asks all his relatives to leave immediately. Sivaraman and Govindankutty gets desperate as the date for the visa payment was nearing. Radhika gives them the money for the visa and asks them to leave the house. She also reveals that she is Kunjunni's actual lover and tells them that Kunjunni has died in America in an accident and she had come to inform this. Sivaraman and Govindankutty accept the money and leave the house. Upon leaving, they come to know that the visa agency was a fake one. Having lost all their resources, Govindan Kutty plans to start some new business with the money they have. Sivaraman disagrees to take the money and asks Govindan Kutty not to take the money which they have got for cheating on the innocent old couple. Govindankutty leaves Sivaraman in anger taking the money with him. Sivaraman returns to the old man and confesses all his mistakes. The old man asks them to continue the drama in front of his wife Sethu, who loves her grandson above all. Sethu comes and calls Kunjunni but she gets no replies but finally gets hold of Govindan Kutty's arms who has returned in remorse.
In the closing scene it is shown that Thomas and Tyootty started a new hambug, Nambeeshan has gone back to his native place and has started farming, his ex-wife (Sukumari) gets married to an younger man, Pothuval started an anti-alcohol society, and the future plans of Alina as still unknown.
Cast
- Mohanlal as Sivaraman/Kunjunni
- Mukesh as Govindan Kutty/Dr. Gopalakrishnan
- Arzoo Govitrikar as Radhika Menon / Revathy
- Sunil Shetty as Real Kunjunni (Special Appearance)
- Nedumudi Venu as Blind 'Thampuran'
- Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Sethu Lakshmi Bhai 'Thampuratti'
- Innocent as Pothuval
- Jagathy Sreekumar as Advocate Nambeeshan
- Sukumari as Adv. Nambeeshan's wife
- Sucheta Khanna as Alina
- Cochin Haneefa as Thomas
- Jagadish as Tyootty, Thomas's stammering brother
- Shweta Menon (special appearance as herself)
- Ramya Krishnan (special appearance as herself)
- Shalu Menon
- Augustine
- Poornima Anand
- Suchitra
- Manka Mahesh
- T. P. Madhavan as Madhavan
Soundtrack
Kakkakuyil | |
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Soundtrack album by Deepan Chatterjee | |
Released | 2001 |
Genre | Popular music |
Length | 39.31 |
Label | East Coast Audios |
Producer | Lissy Priyadarshan |
The hit songs were composed by Deepan Chatterjee and lyrics were penned by Gireesh Puthenchery.
Track | Song | Artist(s) | Duration |
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1 | Kakkakuyile | M. G. Sreekumar | 4.33 |
2 | Aararum Kandillenno | M. G. Sreekumar, Sujatha | 4.13 |
3 | Padam Vanamali | M. G. Sreekumar, K. S. Chithra, Kalyani Menon | 5.21 |
4 | Ponnumani Kannanunni | Kalyani Menon, Sujatha Mohan | 5.57 |
5 | Megharagam Nerukil | M. G. Sreekumar | 4.41 |
6 | Unnikanna Vaayo | Kalyani Menon | 0.43 |
7 | Megharagam Nerukil | K. S. Chithra | 4.41 |
8 | Ponnumani Kannanunni | M. G. Sreekumar | 5.56 |
9 | Govinda Govinda | M. G. Sreekumar, Sangeetha Sajith, Nikhil | 5.26 |
Box office
The film was a Super hit at box office.[7]
References
- ^ "Priyadarshan". surfindia.com. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ "Kakkakuyil". cinemalayalam.net. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ Unni R. Nair (4 January 2002). "Let down". Screen India. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
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- ^ "Kakkakuyil — Malayalam Priyadarshan. Mohanlal comedy Movie". artkerala.com. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ Unni R. Nair (4 January 2002). "Let down". Screen India. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007.
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External links
- Kakkakuyil at IMDb