Prajapathi

Infobox_Film
name = Prajapathi


director = Renjith
writer =
starring = Mammootty, Sandhya,Seema, Thilakan, Nedumudi Venu, Srinivasan, Siddique, Sai Kumar, Bhiman Raghu, TG Ravi, Babu Namboothiri, Manianpilla Raju, Augustine, Abu Salim, Ajith, Kunjan, Bineesh Kodieri, Jayan, Manjulan, Adithi Rao, Seema, Niranjana.
producer = Valiyaveettil Siraj
distributor = S Pictures
released = 2006
runtime =
language = Malayalam
music = Tej Manoj
lyrics = Girish Puthencherry

Prajapathi is a Malayalam movie directed by Renjith. The film has Mammootty in the lead role with Kannada actress Adithi Rao doing the female lead. Sandhya is also in the cast. The music is by Tej Manoj and lyrics are by Girish Puthencherry. The film was shot close to Gopichettipalayam in Tamil Nadu.

Plot

Devar madom Narayanan (Mammootty) is accused to kill is father, for being cruel to his mother, at the age of 13 and serves sentence in a juvenile home. When he returns, he becomes leader of the people of Perumalpuram village. He ensures the village devoid of all wrong doers by absenting them from the village. His enemies are his uncle Kunjambu Nair (Nedumudi Venu) and wife Indrani (Seema). Kunjambu Nair hated Narayanan for killing his brother.Although Kunjambu Nair and his son Giri (Siddique) tried in many ways to kill Narayanan. At one point Giri almost succeeded in killing Devar madom Narayanan. But Narayanan again didn’t react. He was in good terms with Kunjambu Nair’s daughter (Sandhya) and his Murapennu (Aditi Rao). Giri tries to sell his land in Perumalpuram to some outsider whose arrival, Narayanan knew, would destroy the harmony of the village. That is when Narayanan decides to react.

Finally it turns out that Kunjambu Nair was the one who actually killed his father for their wealth. Narayanan helps Ali Raghavan (Sreenivasan), the real son of Kunjambu Nair, to gain his birth right. When Giri finds that he is the step-son of Kunjambu Nair, he kills his step-father. But the family drives him away from home with the help of Narayanan. Rest of the film is about how and if Giri take revenge on Narayanan.

Reception

The movie did not do well in the box office, one of the main reasons of which was a major slump in the film industry at the time.

External links

[http://www.nowrunning.com/trailers/trailer.asp?movieNo=2995&mv=PrajapathiTRAILER]