Dada Sahib

For the father of Indian cinema, see Dadasaheb Phalke.

Dada Sahib
Mammootty as Dada Sahib
Directed by	Vinayan
Produced by	Sargam Kabeer
Written by	S. Suresh Babu Vinayan
Starring	Mammootty Sai Kumar Murali Athira
Music by	Mohan Sithara
Cinematography	Sanjeev Shankar
Editing by	G. Murali
Distributed by	Sargam Pictures
Release date(s)	December 2000
Running time	2 hour 30 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Dada Sahib is a 2000 Malayalam film co-written and directed by Vinayan and starring Mammootty in the dual title roles. He played the roles of Dada Sahib, an old freedom fighter and Abubacker, an army man and patriot.

Plot

Dada Mohammed Sahib popularly called Dadasahib, is an old freedom fighter, and his son Abubacker is a former subeidar in the army. Abubacker is the brave son of a brave father, cannot help himself from reacting when he finds some terrorist activities and arms racket taking place in his own town Thaliyoor.

But finally he finds himself being arrested on charges of espionage, treason and terrorist activity and the court too gives its final verdict-the death sentence. The President too rejects his plea and finally the sentence is carried out.

It is after this that the story takes a new turn; Abubacker escapes from death and a battle ensues between good and the evil forces.^[1]

Cast

• Mammootty as Dada Mohammad Sahib and Abubacker
• Athira as Athira
• Murali as Doctor
• Rajan P. Dev as Skaraia Sachariah
• Sai Kumar as Mohammad Kutty
• Babu Nampoothiri as Shekharan
• Kalabhavan Mani as Thankachan
• Cochin Hanifa as Raghavan
• Ganesh Kumar as Das
• Sadiq
• Madhupal as Ravi
• Augustine as Nooruddin Kunju
• Mohan Sharma as Governor Rahmath Ali
• Shivanandan
• Kaveri as Ayisha
• Rahna as Malathi
• Manka Mahesh as Ammukutty
• Meena Ganesh
• Aishwarya
• Sangeetha
• Nedumudi Venu
• Ravi Vallathol
• Sivaji as Dr. John
• Johny
• Sanusha

External links

• Dada Sahib at the Internet Movie Database

References

1. ^ Plot reference