Ottayal Pattalam
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| Directed by | T. K. Rajeev Kumar |
| Written by | T. K. Rajeev Kumar Kalavoor Ravikumar |
| Starring | Mukesh Innocent Madhoo |
| Cinematography | Sunny Joseph |
| Edited by | Venugopal |
| Music by | Sharreth |
| Distributed by | Century Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 133 min |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Ottayal Pattalam (transl. One man army) is a 1991 Indian Malayalam-language caper comedy film written and directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar. The film stars Mukesh and Madhoo, with Innocent and K. P. A. C. Lalitha in the supporting roles.[1][2] Sharreth scored the music for the film.[3]
Plot
[edit]Gopika Varma is an NRI who is returning to India to do the death rituals of her parents who were killed during an theft attempt by an Antony a man of an African orgin.He follows her to India and tries to kidnap her.During the same time another gang from India is trying to kidnapp her in the objective of taking her assets at airport.Due to their car being broken down they take the taxi of Venu.Venu is an orphan raised by nun,who have started his first day as a driver.But due to a string of events Gopika mistakes Venu as their gang leader and she takes his car and escapes and Venu takes her parents ashes which she brought for rituals.
Venu is framed as kidnapping Gopika as a plan of police and Gopika is renamed as Indhu and reallocated with protection.Meanwhile Antony and the gang joins an ally and Venu is on run by police and gang and escapes many times from their clutches.Venu tries to give the ashes to her and make her know the truth using his friend Velayudhan but he is arrested by police.Venu accidently enters a drama company while on the run and mistakenly applies an old man's makeup which helps him to avoid police and gangs.He takes a fake identity Colonel Nair as an ex- military officer and moves to Gopika's current residence.
Colonel Nair become close to Gopika and tries to convince Venu is incident.Venu saves her from gang and returns the ashes by his friend Velayudhan.Gopika is lovestruck and believes Venu is innocent.They met at their residence and during which antony Attacks her and Venu captures him and Gopika is admitted at the hospital also Nun is admitted.During an attempt to see her Gopika realises his real identity and tries to joke around him.
She and Venu goes DIG Chandrashekar and tell truth but Venu is captured instead and becomes agitated towards Gopika.He and Velayudhan escapes and kidnaps Gopika and exchanges her for money to Gang.But police is informed and she is saved by Venu in Colonel Nair costume. She fakes to attempt sucide by jumping in lake to joke around Venu and in an attempt he jumps in and loss his makeup and revealing he is Venu which already known for a long time.The movie ends showing Colonel Nair costume in water and police thinking that good man is killed and Venu and Gopika laughing
Cast
[edit]- Mukesh as Venu Gopalakrishnan/Col. R. K. Nair
- Madhoo as Gopika Varma/Indu
- Innocent as DIG Chandrashekara Menon
- KPAC Lalitha as SI Shoshamma
- Shammi Thilakan
- Antony (Kenyan) as Simon Antony
- Paravoor Bharathan as SI Bharghavan
- Vettukili Prakash as Velayudhan
- Edavela Babu
- Kalpana
- Bobby Kottarakkara as Makeup man
- Preethika
- Ranju
- Ravi Vallathol
- Asha Jayaram
- James
- Manimala as Matron
Soundtrack
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| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Language | Malayalam | |||
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The film has two songs composed by Sharreth while the lyrics were written by P. K. Gopi.[4][5] The song "Mayamanchalil" is an Evergreen song.[6] The background score of the movie was by Johnson.
| Track | Singer(s) | Lyrics |
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| "Mayamanchalil Ithu" | Radhika Thilak, G. Venugopal | P. K. Gopi |
| "Thinthaktho" | G. Venugopal | P. K. Gopi |
References
[edit]- ^ "Madhoo, happy birthday! | Bollywood Life". www.bollywoodlife.com-EN. 26 March 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ Ottayal Pattalam (1992), retrieved 24 July 2019
- ^ "Composer Sharreth tuned this song on his heartbreak day". OnManorama. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ Kumar, P. K. Ajith (23 August 2012). "Top scorer". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ IBTimes (21 September 2015). "Radhika Thilak death: 10 songs to remember deceased playback singer". International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- ^ "Manjakiliyude Moolipattu stops abruptly". The Times of India. 21 September 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
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