Manu Uncle

Manu Uncle
Directed by	Dennis Joseph
Written by	Shibu Chakraborthy (Screenplay) Dennis Joseph (Story)
Produced by	Joy Thomas
Starring	Mammootty Mohanlal Suresh Gopi M. G. Soman Prathapachandran
Cinematography	Jayanan Vincent
Edited by	K. Shankunny
Music by	Shyam Shibu Chakraborthy(lyrics)
Distributed by	Jubilee Productions
Release date	1988
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Manu Uncle is a 1988 superhit Malayalam film written and directed by Dennis Joseph starring Mammootty in title role . The film is regarded as the best children's film ever in Malayalam Cinema. The film was awarded the Kerala State Film Award for Best Children's Film in 1989.

Plot

Mammootty plays the lead role Manu,M.A.,L.L.B.,BTech Electronics who is researching in astronomy. Manu's father (played by M. G. Soman) is a police officer. Lisi plays the role of Manu's sister Uma. Prathapachandran plays Ravunni, a family friend of Manu's. Antony (Azeez) and Mary (K. P. A. C. Lalitha) are neighbours of Manu. Their children are Dany aka Lother and Ikru. Manu's elder sister (Jalaja)'s children comes from Delhi to enjoy their vacation. They with Dany and Ikru make up a four member team headed by Dany. They happened to visit the Art Museum on the very same time when the Marthandavarma's crown was stolen. Ikru noticed the robbers, Gomas, Appu and Kittu but was not able to describe them to his grandpa. Manu who has a well equipped communication system once was happened to hear the conversation between Kittu and Gomas planning to loot the Marthandavarmas's crown. Manu and his father rushed to the palace but Manu was stabbed by Gomas so that Manu's father had to follow the robbers alone. But the police officer was killed by the robbers in a planned lorry accident. The viewers are just now able to know who the mastermind behind the robbery was and that was Ravunni, a close family friend of the killed police officer. But, the incident was witnessed by Khader, a young orphan who was happened to be in that lorry. The robbers saw the boy and they planned to kill him. The boy escaped and met the four children and he told them that their grandpa was not dead in an accident but was killed. The curious children decided to investigate the murder. Ikru who had already met Gomas drew his picture which was noticed by Manu and Ravunni. Ravunni was shocked and Manu started developing doubts about Ravunni after watching the tensed face of Ravunni. Manu went Ravunni's house when he was not their and made sure his doubts where true. The children as per the instruction by Khader, reached the gang's place. They were shocked to see Ravunni leading the gang. The gang saw the children who crossed their fence and Ravunni directed to kill them. But, soon Manu reached there and saved the children. The climax scene have a very funny fight scenes which was enhanced by the funny inspector role of Suresh Gopi as Minnal Prabhakaran. The movie ends when the robber gang was arrested by the police. Mohanlal and Suresh Gopi had special appearance in the film. Mohanlal played the role of himself and Suresh Gopi as SI Minnal Prabhakaran.

Cast

• Mammootty .... Manu
• Master Kuriyachan .... Dany aka Lother
• Master Anoop .... Ikru
• Master Sandeep .... Shanku
• Master Kareem .... Khader
• M. G. Soman .... DySP
• Azeez .... Antony
• Prathapachandran .... Ravunni Menon
• B. Thyagarajan .... Gomas
• Mohan Jose .... Security guard of Ravunni Menon
• Lisi .... Uma
• K. P. A. C. Lalitha .... Mary
• Jalaja .... Manu's elder sister

Special appearances

• Mohanlal .... himself
• Suresh Gopi .... Minnal Prabhakaran

Reception

The film was a huge commercial success and was critically acclaimed as the ever best children's film. The film was a big budget film of nineties and was the largest grosser of the year.

Soundtrack

• Mele Veettile .... K. S. Chithra
• Oru Kili .... M. G. Sreekumar & K. S. Chithra

Crew

• Story,Direction ..... Dennis Joseph
• Screenplay, Dialogues and Lyrics .... Shibu Chakraborthy
• Producer .... Joy Thomas
• Disribution .... Jubilee Productions
• Cinematography .... Jayanan Vincent
• Editor .... K. Shankunny
• Stunt .... A. R. Basha
• Art Direction .... Sabu Pravadas
• Assosciate direction .... Jimmy
• P. R. O. .... Ranji Kottayam
• Stills .... R. Sukumar
• Make up .... Thomas
• Costume Design .... Kumar

External links

• Manu Uncle at IMDb