Odaruthammava Aalariyam

Odaruthammava Aalariyam
Directed by	Priyadarshan
Written by	Sreenivasan
Starring	Shankar, Nedumudi Venu Sreenivasan, sreenath, Mukesh, Jagadish, Lizy
Cinematography	S. Kumar
Editing by	N. Gopalakrishnan
Release date(s)	1984
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Odaruthammava Aalariyam is a Malayalam comedy film released in 1984. This film directed by Priyadarshan is about three college students and their efforts to woo a girl. Shankar, Nedumudi Venu, Sreenivasan, Sreenath, Mukesh, Jagadish, Lizy, Menaka, Sukumari and Kuthiravattom Pappu appeared in main roles. The script was written by Sreenivasan. This film was a big hit at box office.

Plot

Gopan (Mukesh), Kora (Jagadish) and Bhakthavalsan (Sreenivasan) are three college students who share same house along with Prem (Shankar), another classmate. While the trio are more interested in loafing their time by flirting with girls, Prem is more serious in his attitude towards life. On a usual encounter, the trio meets Major Nair (Nedumudi Venu), a retired man in his fifties, who but loves romancing young girls. After a series of ego clashes, Major Nair bets with them, if anyone among them could woo his daughter Minu (Lizy), which to him is impossible. Accepting the bet the trio makes all efforts to make her fell in love with them. At the mean time, Minu is seriously in love with Prem. While at the same time, Nair had also made a similar challenge to Govind (Sreenath), another street romeo, who is but married to a beautiful innocent girl (Menaka). Boban one day enters Nair's home as a servant by and enjoys easy access to Minu's room. Kora arrives at Nair's house as a disciple of his brother-in-law, a wrestler (Poojappura Ravi). Bhakthavalsan claims himself to be a Hindi scholar and gets appointed as Minu's Hindi tution master. Govind at the meantime arrives in front of Minu as a blind man, for whom she feels sympathetic and brings home. Major Nair is shocked to find all four at his home, but is unable to open up the secrets as part of the gentleman's bet. But Nair succeeds in chasing everyone out of his house. The trio is shocked to find Minu to be in love with Prem and now put all energy to break them apart. The rest of the story is how Prem unites with Minu and Major's failure in his bet.

Cast

• Shankar .... Prem
• Nedumudi Venu .... Major Nair
• Sreenivasan.... Bhakthavalsan
• Mukesh.... Gopan
• sreenath.... Govind
• Jagadish....Kora
• Lizy.... Minu
• Sukumari.... Major Nair's Wife
• Thikkurissy as Sukumaran Nair
• Menaka .... Govind's Wife
• Pappu as Pachu Pillai
• Poojappura Ravi .... Wrestler Lambodaran Pillai

Trivia

• This was Priyadarshan's second film in his career.
• Sreenivasan made his debut as a script writer.
• Lizy appeared for the first time in a Priyadarshan film. Later she acted in almost all his films till their marriage in 1990.
• Odaruthammava Aalariyam was a huge hit at box office.

External links

• Oodarathuammava Aalariyam at the Internet Movie Database