Dasharatham

Dasharatham
Directed by	Sibi Malayil
Produced by	Saga Films
Written by	A. K. Lohithadas
Starring	Mohanlal Rekha
Music by	Johnson
Cinematography	Venu
Editing by	L. Bhoominathan
Studio	Saga Films
Distributed by	Saga Films
Release date(s)	1989
Running time	154 mins
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Dasharatham (Malayalam:ദശരഥം) is a Malayalam film released in 1989, written by A. K. Lohithadas and directed by Sibi Malayil, featuring Mohanlal, Murali, Nedumudi Venu, Sukumaran, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Rekha, Sukumari, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, K. P. A. C. Lalitha and Jayabharathi.This is one of the cult classic film of Mohanlal. A. K. Lohithadas won Kerala Film Critics Award for Best Script Writer.

Story

Rajiv Menon (Mohanlal) is born into riches and who is an alcoholic womanizer with absolutely no aim in life. With no parents to guide him and with the family business being run by a trusted manager Pillai (Karamana Janardanan Nair), Rajiv is free to waste his life and money on drinks and debauchery. A close friend Scariah (Nedumudi Venu) with his wife and children come over to stay at Rajiv’s palatial house for a week. Soon Rajiv gets attached to one of Scariah's children and decides that he wants to have a child of his own, but neither does he want to get married nor does he want to adopt a baby. One of is good friends, guide and philospher Dr. Hameed (Sukumaran) advises Rajiv to rent a womb. They come across a former football player Chandradas (Murali) who is in dire need of money for an operation, his wife Annie (Rekha) agrees to give birth to Rajiv’s child through artificial insemination. Both Charandas and Annie aren’t happy about the decision – it’s clearly a desperate solution to their financial needs.

At first Annie just wants to get over with the 9 month pregnancy period, handover the baby and move on with life. The usually rash and immature Rajiv is now a changed man, reading up books on pregnancy, child birth and making sure that Annie stays in an atmosphere that is cheerful, beautiful and is taken care of by nurses, provided with the best diet and so on to ensure the birth of a healthy and happy baby. He is completely taken up by the thought of having a child, the thought of finally having someone he can call his own. But by the time of the child’s birth Annie gets emotionally attached to the life that’s taking shape in her womb and refuses to part with the baby.

Finally Rajiv hands over the child to Annie. In the climax, Rajiv asks the maid Maggie, whether every mother has an attachement to her child like Annie has. Rajiv asks Maggie can you love me like Annie likes her son, which is a highly emotional ending to the movie.

Trivia

Later on Sukumari stated in an interview that, the climax was shot in real emotion and both Mohanlal and Sukumari cried.

Cast

• Mohanlal - Rajiv Menon
• Nedumudi Venu - Scariah
• Sukumaran - Dr. Hameed
• Karamana Janardanan Nair - Manager Pillai
• Murali - Chandradas
• Rekha - Annie
• Sukumari - Maggie
• Kaviyoor Ponnamma - Chandradas's mother
• Jayabharathi - Dr. Zeenath
• K. P. A. C. Lalitha - Mariyamma
• M. S. Thripunithura - Adv. Govindan
• Kollam Thulasi - Advocate
• Jagannathan - Sankaran Nair
• Vineeth Kumar - Jose

Soundtrack

The music was done by Johnson master and lyrics by Poovachal Khader.

Song Title	Singer(s)	Other notes
Chinchilam Thenmozhi	M. G. Sreekumar
Mandaara Cheppundo	M. G. Sreekumar, K. S. Chithra	Raga: Shuddha Dhanyasi

External links

• Dasharatham at the Internet Movie Database
• Dasharatham at OneIndia