Ezhupunna Tharakan is a 1999 Malayalam film directed by P. G. Viswambharan. It features Mammootty, Jagadish, Madhu and Namrata Shirodkar in the lead roles. This was Shirodkar's first & only Malayalam film.[1][2] The film was a commercial failure.[3]

Ezhupunna Tharakan
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Directed byP. G. Viswambharan
Written byKaloor Dennis
Produced byGeorge P. Joseph
Starring
CinematographySanjeev Shankar
Edited byA. Sreekar Prasad
Music byVidyasagar
Distributed byLeo Group Of Companies
Release date
  • April 1999 (1999 -04)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Cast

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  • Mammootty as Ezhupunna Sunny Tharakan,Main Protagonagist,Ezhupunna odha's son
  • Jagadish as Muhammad Ali,Sunny's Friend
  • Madhu as Ezhupunna Outha Tharakan
  • Namrata Shirodkar as Ashwathy Varma,Sunny'love in interest,Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's daughther
  • Sangeetha as Aiswarya Gowda
  • Captain Raju as Ezhupunna Chacko Tharakan ,Ezhupunna ouda's second younger brother
  • K.P.A.C. Sunny as Ezhupunna Mathew Tharakan,Ezhupunna oudha's first ypunger brother
  • Rajan P. Dev as Kumbanadan Lazar,Main Rival of ezhupunna tharakan family
  • Vijayakumar as Ezhupunna Baby Tharakan,Ezhupunna chacko,s son,Lazer's son in law
  • Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Kunjannamma,Ouda's wife,sunny's mother
  • Praveena as Rani,sunny's sister
  • Zainuddin as Pushkaran
  • Sadiq as Ajayan,Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's Nephew,Padmanabhan's Son, Aswani's Paternal Cousin
  • Kozhikode Narayanan Nair as Paliyankkara valiya Thampuran,Aswanis Father,Main Antagonagist
  • Baiju Ezhupunna as Sathyanathan,Paliyankars Valiya Thampurans Nephew,Ramabhadran's Son, Aswani's Paternal Cousin
  • V. K. Sreeraman as Ramabhadran,Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's First Younger Brother,Second Main Antagonagist
  • T. P. Madhavan as Justice Mahadevan
  • Jagannatha Varma as Father Bernard
  • Spadikam George as Padmanabhan,Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's Second Younger Brother,Third Main Antagonagist
  • Paravur Ramachandran as Rajasekharan, Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's Third Younger Brother,Fourth Main Antagonagist
  • Rizabawa as DYSP Gopinathan Varma,Antagonagist
  • Chandni Shaju as Leena Lazer
  • Manka Mahesh as Mary Chacko
  • Prof. Aliyar as Adv. Vasudevan Nair
  • Vimal Raj in cameo appearance
  • Shammi Thilakan in cameo appearance
  • Bindu Ramakrishnan in cameo appearance
  • Jayabharathi in cameo appearance,Paliyankara Thampuran's Ypunger Sister, Aswani's Aunt

Songs

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The movie has five songs which were composed by Vidyasagar. The lyrics were written by Gireesh Puthenchery.

Song Singers
"Mele Vinnil" Srinivas
"Mele Vinnil" K. S. Chithra
"Minnum Nilave" Sujatha Mohan, K. J. Yesudas
"Thekkan Katte" Biju Narayanan, M. G. Sreekumar, Unni Menon, Radhika Thilak, Sujatha Mohan, C. O. Anto
"Thekku Thekku" K. J. Yesudas
"Enne Maranno Ponne" K. J. Yesudas, Sujatha Mohan

Reception

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A critic from Deccan Herald wrote that the film was "Time-pass stuff".[4]

References

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  1. ^ "How Mahesh Babu and Namrata Shirodkar Made Their Daughter Sitara's 9th Birthday Special".
  2. ^ "HBD Mammootty: Chiranjeevi, Mahesh Babu and Director Mahi V Raghav Wish Mammukka on His Special Day!". 7 September 2020.
  3. ^ Veteran Malayalam director P G Viswambharan dead - Sify, Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 17:17
  4. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20000614113548/http://deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep05/enter.htm [bare URL]
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