Kadha Parayumbol

Infobox Film
name = Kadha Parayumbol


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director = M. Mohanan
producer = Mukesh-Sreenivasan
writer = Sreenivasan
starring = Sreenivasan
Mammootty
Meena
Mukesh
Innocent
Jagadeesh
Salim Kumar
KPAC Lalitha
music = Jayachandran
cinematography = P. Sukumar
editing =
production_company = Grand Production
distributor =
release = 2007
runtime =
country = India
awards =
language = Malayalam
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imdb_id = 1111914

Kadha Parayumbol is a 2007 Malayalam film directed by M. Mohanan. It was a success with the critics and at the box office .

"Kadha Parayumbol" is an impressive return to the good old days of Malayalam cinema- a time when great scripts ruled over the techniques of cinema and when directors paid heed to get the best scripts before the actual production of movies.

The plot of the movie, set in the backdrop of Melukavu, a picturesque, silent village is told as simple and sweet as reading a short story.The film, skillfully repeats the representative characters, from every layer of the rural villages, (reminiscent of Sathyan films) with which the writer makes a lot of careful observations and clarifications about the phenomenon of super stardom and lives of people living in the lower strata of the society. Mostly represented by local professional actors in these roles, the film also gives an authentic feel with all sorts of storyline surprises and political criticisms in spite of its simple exterior.

tory

The basic premise of the story is all about friendship - that too a rare one, between a village barber and the reigning super star of Malayalam cinema. Sreenivasan who also scripts the movie appear in the lead as Balan, the village barber while Mammootty is playing superstar Ashok Raj. The film is all about childhood friendship between Ashok Raj and Balan who studied together in the same school. After many years Ashok Raj comes to Melukaavu Village, where Balan runs the shop, for the shooting of a film, within a few days grape vine spreads far and wide about the thick friendship between them.

Balan becomes the most noted and talked about man in the village, mostly due to the snobs about this rare friendship. People began to do every favor including monetary support for him and his family and Balan began to climb the ladder of fortunes in no time. But the fact remained that Balan has never disclosed this closeness with the star, to any one in the village. The question then remained how people get to know about their intimacy. The film goes on to tell how these stories about companionship can turn into a menace for quite living village man.

Local financier Eepachan even gifted him with revolving chair and his new equipments. Every one in the village has secret intentions for helping Balan, as most wanted to have a close look of the superstar while some like Das wanted to pen a few lines for any of his upcoming films, making use of this alleged relationship of the film super star and Balan.

Moreover Balan was reluctant to go ahead and refresh his friendship with Ashok Raj in the fear that the superstar may not identify him from the big group that he is accustomed to meet every day. This creates more problems to him as people gradually start to stamp him as a cheat who is there to make good for him, spreading false stories about his acquaintance.

oundtrack

#"Maambulli" - Swetha, Vineeth Sreenivasan
#"Vethyasthanam" - Pradeep Palluruthy

Remakes

In Chennai, Director P.Vasu recommended that actor Rajnikanth watch the film. Actor Sreenivasan and Producer, Mukesh were at the Chennai screening, to which actor Rajnikanth was in tears for the film's story and packed performances. Both Rajnikanth and Sreenivasan discussed about the film's progression to which Rajni had immediately decided to commit himself in the Tamil & Telugu remake entitled Kuselan (Katha Nayakudu in Telugu). Unlike the 2 songs the original contained, Vasu had altered the story to fit Rajnikanth's extended role as to what Mammooty had done in the original. In addition, actress Meena was asked to reprise her role as the barber's wife and Nayantara was also cast opposite to Rajnikanth. She plays the heroine, which was not featured in the original. 5 songs composed by noted Music Director, G.V Prakash have 3 songs picturized on Rajnikanth himself, 1 on Pasupathy and family, and 1 on Nayantara's introduction. The film released with much anticipation, however Kuselan is a flop at box office due to the changes made basking on Rajini Kanth.

Recently, noted Kannada actor/director, Ramesh Aravind has announced the remake in Kannada as well. The film will be directed by him and will contain no alterations to the story. Actor Komal will play the barber role while emerging star Ganesh will don the Superstar role. [http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2008/jun/30slid4.htm]

Following the Blockbuster success of the film, noted Director Priyadarshan was highly impressed with the film that he immediately bought rights for the Hindi remake of the film. Priyan had screened the film to noted actor, Shah Rukh Khan, who was highly impressed with the film that he signed onto the Hindi remake, Billo Barber as well as producing it under his Red Chillies Entertainment. Khan suggested that Priyan should stick to the original script sans any alterations. As of July 2008, 2 item numbers by Kareena Kapoor and Deepika Padukone are to be added into the film's promotion.

Cast

* Sreenivasan ... E.P. Balan
* Mammootty ... Superstar Ashok Raj
* Meena ... Sridevi
* [Baby Revathy ...
* Mukesh ... Venu
* Innocent ... Eappachan Muthalali
* Jagadeesh ... Sarasan
* Salim Kumar ... Das Vadakkemuri
* KPAC Lalitha ... School Principal

References