Naran (film)

This article is about the film. For the location in Pakistan, see Naran Valley. For other uses, see Naran (disambiguation).

Naran
100 days poster
Directed by	Joshi
Produced by	Antony Perumbavoor
Written by	Ranjan Pramod
Starring	Mohanlal Innocent Madhu Siddique Jagathy Sreekumar Devayani Bhavana Salim Kumar
Music by	Songs: Deepak Dev Background Score: Ouseppachan
Cinematography	Shaji
Editing by	Ranjan Abraham
Studio	Aashirvad Cinemas
Distributed by	Central Pictures
Release date(s)	3 September 2005 (Kerala}, as an Onam release.
Running time	165 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	3 crores
Box office	18.56 crores

Naran (Malayalam: നരന്‍, English: The Man) is a 2005 Malayalam film written by Ranjan Pramod and directed by Joshi. The film tells the story of Mullankolli Velayudhan (Mohanlal), a homeless ruffian with a good heart. Mohanlal creates a brand new assembly of speaking frames, where words become irrelevant the face speaks. The actor uses his eyes and body language to express it all- anger, dismay, rage, anguish, affection, gratitude and love. Mohanlal the actor and superstar makes Naran a gripping story of grief and heroism due to his powerful performance.

It was one of the Onam releases in 2005 and one of the highly appreciated Mohanlal movies.

Plot

Mullankolli is an interior rustic village, near a river. Velayudhan (Mohanlal) is an orphan who came floating on a reef during floods and he was brought up by Valiya Nambiar (Madhu) a do-gooder and a feudal landlord of the area.

Velayudhan grows up into a riff-raff, drunkard and a local rowdy with a good heart. He hates injustice and has set his own rules for the villagers who are scared of him including local moneylender and politician 'member' Kurup (Jagathy). Gopinathan Nambiar (Siddique) son-in-law of Valliya Nambiar who wants to lord over the village in his own way.

When Velayudhan plants a stick like lord Murugan's Vel, it means that it has his stamp of authority. The only man who he listens to is Valiya Nambiar and to a certain extent Kelappan (Innocent) who looked after him as a child. The villagers including Kurup and Gopinathan regularly bring goondas from outside the village to eliminate Velayudhan but they fail. There are three women in his life- a prostitute Kunnummel Shantha (Sona Nair) old flame Janaki(Devayani) and Kelappan's daughter Leela (Bhavana). But things turn bleak for Velayudhan due to the machinations of Gopinathan which leads to the climax.

Cast

• Mohanlal ... Mullankolli Velayudhan
• Madhu ... Valiya Nambiar
• Siddique ... Gopinathan Nambiar
• Innocent ... Kelappan
• Jagathy Sreekumar ... Member Kuruppu
• Bhavana ... Leela
• Saikumar ... Police Inspector
• Salim Kumar ... Idimutt Rajappan
• Bheeman Raghu ... Keeri Raghavan
• Devayani ... Janaki
• Vijeesh ... Gopikuttan
• Sona Nair ... Kunnummel Shantha
• Baby Niranjana ... Janaki's Daughter

Soundtrack

Naran
Soundtrack album by Deepak Dev
Released	2005
Genre	Soundtrack
Label	Manorama Music
Producer	Aashirvad Cinemas
Deepak Dev chronology
Naa Oopiri (Telugu) 'Naran' Ben Johnson

The songs of this movie has composed by Deepak Dev and lyrics were penned by Kaithapram. The song Velmuruka is on the top of musical charts for months and still the main selection to sing in stage performances.

Song	Singers
Thumbikinnaram	Dr. K. J. Yesudas, Gayatri
Velmuruka	M. G. Sreekumar
Naran	K. S. Chithra, Vineeth Sreenivasan
Minnedi Minnedi	K. S. Chithra
Ponnaaryan	Dr. K. J. Yesudas
Thumbikinnaram [Unplugged]	Dr. K. J. Yesudas, Gayatri
Velmuruka [Remix]	M. G. Sreekumar

External links

• Naran at the Internet Movie Database