Mr. Brahmachari

Mr. Brahmachari
Directed by	Thulasidas
Produced by	M. Mani
Written by	Mahesh Mithra.
Narrated by	J Pallassery
Starring	Mohanlal and Meena Durairaj
Music by	Mohan Sithara
Release date(s)	3 March 2003
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Mr. Brahmachari (2003) is an Indian film in malayalam language by Thulasidas starring Mohanlal and Meena Durairaj.^[1]

Cast

Actor	Role
Mohanlal[2]	Ananthan Thampi/ Thambi Aliyan
Meena Durairaj[2]	Ganga
Nedumudi Venu	Ananthan Thampi's father, Sekharan Thampi
Jagathi Sreekumar	V. V. T.
Kaviyoor Ponnamma	Ananthan Thampi's Mother, Subhadramma
Devan	Raghavan
Jagadish	Rajappan
Mohanraj	Masthan Majeebhai
Bindu Panikkar	Nirmala
Prem Kumar	Varadappan
Vijay Kumar	Aravindan
K. R. Vijaya	Vasumathi

Plot

Ananthan Thampy (Mohanlal) is a middle aged man who has decided never to marry in his life. He thinks he will lose all his youthfulness and manly looks by marriage. His main hobby is body building and physique maintaining. Ananthan Thampy prefers to be a chronic bachelor and hence the title Mr. Brahmachari. Ananthan Thampi is known among his friends as Thampi annan. The two ever-loyal assistants Rajappan and Varadappan support him and his ideals, though secretly in their hearts, they plan to marry their sweethearts.

His father Shekharan Thampy (Nedumudi Venu) and mother Subhadramma (Kaviyoor Ponnamma) are eagerly waiting for the day when their son would re-think and change his stand one day. Ananthan Thampy's sister Nirmala (Bindu Panicker) and her husband Venugopalan Thampi (Jagathy), popularly called VVT, are happy about thampy's decision, since they have an eye on the huge properties of Thampi.^[3]

The beautiful Ganga(Meena) and family comes to stay in neighborhood of Thampi. Shekharan Thampy rents out a house owned by him to an elderly lady-teacher Vasumathi, who reaches there on transfer. She has four daughters. Eldest one, Sindhu is already married while the other three, namely, Ganga, Yamuna and Kaveri, live with their mother. The local workers doesn't allow Ganga's family to unload their furnitures and other stuff from the lorry. On the demand of Thampy's sister, he had to even carry all the furniture of Meena's family all by himself to keep the pride of his sister.

One day a guy, Aravindan (VijayKumar) comes and pleads with Thampi for a job in his cable company. Thampi mistakes Aravindan to be Ganga's lover and promises him to help him marry her.

Confusions arises and Thampy had to marry Ganga.

Soundtrack

Song	Playback	Lyrics	duration
Bajare Bajare	K. S. Chitra	Girish Puthenchery
Ekanthamayi	Sunil	Girish Puthenchery
Kaanana Kuyile	M. G. Sreekumar, Radhika Thilak	Girish Puthenchery
Ninekandal Nilavil	Sujatha	Girish Puthenchery
Thidambadutha Vambanaya	M. G. Sreekumar, Sujatha	Girish Puthenchery

Reception

even though the film collected close to 8 crores and became one of the highest grossers of the year, it was rated as a pathetic film by critics and general audience.The film become a Mega hit

References

1. ^ "Superstars running scared?". The Hindu. 25 November 2002. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/11/25/stories/2002112500090203.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "On the comeback trail". The Hindu. 17 March 2003. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/03/17/stories/2003031700980203.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-20. 
3. ^ "Mr Brahmachari : Mohanlal plays a bachelor". The Indian Express - Screen Weekly. 4 April 2003. http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=2871. Retrieved 2009-07-21. 

External links

• Mr. Brahmachari at the Internet Movie Database