Manjil Virinja Pookkal, was the directorial debut of one of the finest filmmakers of all time. The movie was written and directed by Fazil. Navodaya Appachan funded and distributed the movie under his banner Navodaya films. The movie was released on a Christmas day, 25th December 1980. Sankar, Poornima Jayaram, Mohanlal, Nedumudi Venu, Prathapachandran and Alummoodan were also part of this film. The songs in the film, composed by Jerry Amal Dev were runway hits. Ashok kumar cranked the camera for the film while T R Shekhar handled the editing. Guna Singh composed the background score of the film.

Manjil Virinja Pookkal was a love story of Prem Kishore and Prabha, who had a cruel husband Narendran. The film ends tragically as Prabha is killed by her husband Narendran. Prem avenges his lover’s death by killing Narendran before committing suicide.

The movie was made on a budget of Rs 15 lakhs. It earned almost Rs 1 crores to emerge as the biggest blockbuster of the year. The film had also won several accolades at the State level including the ones for best actress, best male singer, female singer, popular film, music director and for background music.

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The film’s plot revolves around a local thief named Pavithran. He was called ‘Pavithran, the thief’ by the public eventhough his thefts were of small nature and one which is not much harmful for the society. So in order to escape from the title of a thief he goes to a person named Mammachan to request for a job in his mill. But Mammachan refuses to give him any job there. Pavithran also meets a merchant in the town who is a crooked one. Later, a theft occurs at Mammachan’s house and that incident changes the life of ‘Pavithran, the thief’ and which seals his fate.

Nedumudi Venu played the protagonist ‘Pavithran’ in the film and gave a sterling performance playing that character. Adoor Bhasi played the character of the crooked merchant and actor Bharath Gopi essayed the role of Mammachan.
Other artists who were the part of the film are Beena, Devi, Prem Prakash, Subhashini and Bhasakara Kuruppu.

‘Peruvazhiyambalam’ and ‘Oridathoru Phayalvan’ were the first two films of Padmarajan which were released before ‘Kallan Pavithran’. Both the movies were critically acclaimed but could not reap commercial success.

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The film got released on 28 September, 1984. K G George, himself wrote the screenplay of the film based on the story of famous writer Veloor Krishnan Kutty. The movie was funded by one of the most popular film producers of that time, Gandhimathi Balan.

The wonderful list of artists in the film consist of some of the all-time best actors Mollywood had ever seen like Bharath Gopi, Thilakan, Nedumudi Venu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Srividya, Sukumari, KP Ummer, Sreenivasan, Venu Nagavally, Innocent, Alummoodan, Kalpana, VD Rajappan etc.

Music for the film was composed by MB Sreenivasan and Shaji N Karun, who later became one of the finest filmmakers of Indian cinema, cranked the camera. Editing of the was handled by MN Appu.

The film’s specialty is it’s exaggerated storyline and the caricature like characters which intended to satirize the political scenario of Kerala State and especially about the corruption among the politicians. Dusasana Kuruppu who is the president of the village, a henpecked politician wants to name a bridge in his village after him. He tries all possible means to destroy the existing perfectly serviceable bridge in order to build a new one and to give his name to that bridge.

With the help of crooked politicians like Shikandi Pillai and Ishak Tharakan, who is the leader of opposition party, he plans to destroy the old bridge and build a new one at another location. With their crooked and corrupt ways they manage to build a new bridge and inaugurates it on the day of Dusasana Kuruppu’s daughter’s marriage. But the bridge collapses on the very first day itself.

The whole story is told in a completely satiric and humorous manner. It is easily the best Malayalam movie in this particular genre.

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The movie’s screenplay was jointly written by AK Sajan and SN Swamy. The superhit songs in this film were composed by S P Venkatesh and the lyrics were penned by Shibu Chakravathy and M D Rajendran. Dinesh Babu cranked the camera and editing was handled by K Sankunny, a very popular editor of that time. The film was produced by M Mani and was released on 17 January 1993.

The movie was made on a big budget and it rightly emerged as one of the biggest hits of that year. It is about the revenge story of Narasimha Mannadiyar, played to T by Mammootty. He wants to avenge for his brother’s murder. Jayaram played the role of Narasimhan’s brother Veerasimhan Mannadiyar. Haider Marakkar, a notorious criminal played by Tiger Prabhakar, kills Narasimhan. Mannadiyar takes his revenge on Hyder Marakkar with the help of police officer Jose Nariman, played by Suresh Gopi. Vikram played the role of Bhadran, Mannadiyar’s loyal aid.

SP Venkatesh’s background score in the movie was much appreciated. Dhuravam was S N Swamy’s second script for Joshiy, their first collaboration was for the superhit movie Naaduvazhikal starring Mohanlal in the lead.

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The movie’s characters- Prabhakaran, Prakashan, Uthaman, Kumara Pillai, K G Pothuval, Yashwant Sahai, Anandan, Raghavan Nair, Udhayabhanu etc are widely popular among all generations in our society. This cult classic film was written by the multi faceted Sreenivasan and directed by Sathyan Anthikad. Sandesham was produced by SST Subramaniam under the banner of the popular Evershine productions and was distributed by Evershine release.

Music department was handled by Johnson and camera is cranked by Sathyan Anthikkad’s regular Vipin Mohan. Sreenivasan, Thilakan, Jayaram, Innocent, Siddique, Mamukkoya, Mala Aravindan, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Sankaradi, Bobby Kottarakkara, Maathu, KPAC Lalitha, T P Madhavan and many others were part of the cast.

Sandesh is considered as one of the greatest films ever made in Mollywood. It was included in the list of 100 great films ever made in Indian cinema by IBN Live. It is a satire that discusses the theme of politics and society with black comedy. Apart from garnering critical acclaim, it was also a huge commercial success.

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