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Meleparambil Anveedu
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Wikipedia article
'Meleparambil Anveedu' is a 1993 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy film directed by Rajasenan and scripted by Raghunath Paleri from a story by Gireesh Puthenchery. The film stars Jayaram and Shobana, along with Narendra Prasad, Meena Joseph, Jagathy Sreekumar, Janardanan, Vijayaraghavan, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, and Vinu Chakravarthy. The film was produced and distributed by Mani C. Kappan. This film is considered as the one of the best comedy movies in Malayalam cinema and has a cult status. It was remade in Tamil twice, as 'Valli Vara Pora' (1995) and 'Naiyaandi' (2013). Kappan remade the film in Assamese as 'Borolar Ghor' (2012).
Plot
Harikrishan (Jayaram) is the youngest son of Thiruvikraman Muthallali (Narendra Prasad). His brothers Jayakrishnan and Gopikrishan are uneducated and unmarried. He wants to earn a good living and so sets forth to a Tamil village as manager of a courier company. Hari sees a young Tamil woman named Pavizham (Shobhana) who is the daughter of a landlord Pollachi Gounder (Vinu Chakravarthy); the landlord initially is fond of Harikrishnan, but Pavizham's cousin Marimuthu hates him. Pavizham and Harikrishnan get to know one another. The two fall in love, but her father desires another groom and potentially her cousin Marimuthu and when her father forces her to marry against her will, they elope. But they were caught and presented before naattukoottam (panchayat) presided over by Pavizham's father, since he is considered the "nattamai" of the village. Finally, out of his love for his daughter, Gounder issues a "theerpu" and presents a thaali (wedding knot) for Harikrishnan to tie around Pavizham's neck as a finalization of marriage between the two.
Hari is afraid of whether or not his parents would agree to their marriage, so he keeps Pavizham undercover as a maid in his home. When Hari goes away on business, his parents realize that Pavizham is pregnant and decide to dismiss her from her job. When Hari returns home, he is forced to reveal that Pavizham is his wife. Hari's mother, who likes Pavizham, scolds Hari for keeping his wife as a servant she and her husband express their willingness to accept Pavizham as their daughter-in-law.
Cast
*Jayaram as Harikrishnan Pillai
*Shobana as Pavizham
*Narendra Prasad as Thiruvikraman Pillai
*Meena Joseph as Bhanumathi Pillai
*Jagathy Sreekumar as Jayakrishnan Pillai
*Vijayaraghavan as Gopikrishnan Pillai
*Janardanan as Kannappan
*Paravoor Bharathan as Paramasivan
*Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Kuttan Nair
*Vinu Chakravarthy as Veeramuthu Gounder, Pavizham's father.
*Vijayachandrika as Veeramuthu Gounder's wife, Pavizham's mother
*Rani Larius as prospected bride during pennukanal (Younger Sister)
*Crane Manohar as a lorry driver
*Uzhavoor Vijayan as Agriculture Department Officer
*Ram Lakshman (stunt choreographers) (climax fight scene)
Other crew
* Art: Valsan
* Makeup: Karumam Mohan
* Costumes: Indrans
* Choreography: Madhuri
* Stunts: Malaysia Bhaskar
* Advertisement: Sabu Colonia
* Lab: Prasad Colour Lab
* Stills: Surya Peter
* Effects: Murukesh
* P. R. O.: Abraham Lincoln, Vazhoor Jose
* Production Controller: Gireesh Vaikom
* Outdoor: Sreemovies
* Titles: Ganga Thalaivi
Production
Development
After the success of Jayaram Rajasenan team's 'Ayalathe Adyeham', they planned to do another family entertainer. At this time, lyricist Gireesh Puthenchery told an interesting story to Jayaram about four bachelors with the youngest the one only educated, in a Corleone-like family. Jayaram, who was highly inspired by this probably untold story, decided to produce it himself. The thread was developed by Gireesh and introduced to Rajasenan. It was first developed into a novel and then to a complete film script. Jayaram suggested Goodknight Mohan distribute it. However, Mohan set an unusual demand to Rajasenan, to include some experienced directors to supervise him on script. This was unacceptable to Rajasenan and the project was shelved.At this time, Rajasenan was replaced from the crew of a political film, 'Janam', produced by Mani. C. Kappan. Kappan assured Rajasenan to produce a film for him, obviously as a compensation for his move. The shelved story of 'Meleparambil Aanveedu' was returned by Mohan, for the reasonable amount of 20,000. Calicut-based film writer Raghunath Paleri was selected to write the screenplay.
Gireesh initially told the story to director Shaji Kailas, who turned down since he was interested in action films at that time, but offered to direct it some other time. Later, Kailas invited producer Goodknight Mohan to the film and after Gireesh briefed the story, Mohan immediately gave an advance of 10,000.
Casting
The originally decided cast included obviously Jayaram, along with Shobhana, Meena, Jagathy Sreekumar, Oduvil Unnikrishnan etc. Vijayaraghavan was later signed in to do the mostly serious character in the film. Narendra Prasad, who was typecast for villain roles, was later selected. Innocent was originally cast for the role done by Janardhanan. He rejected the role as he was busy with another film, 'Sakshal Sreeman Chathunni'. Janardhanan, widely known for his villain roles was thus selected to do that comedy role. The others in the cast are Vinu Chakravarthy, Priyanka etc.Filming
The film was initially set in Salem in the script and was to be shot there, too. However, a practical change was made to replace Salem with Pollachi, both in the script as well as the filming location.Box office
The film was a commercial success and ran more than 200 days.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film is composed by Johnson Master and lyrics penned by Girish Puthenchery, I.S. Kundoor and Kavinjar Kaalidasan. It proved popular upon release.
Remakes
'Meleparambil Anveedu' was remade in Tamil twice, as 'Valli Vara Pora' (1995) and 'Naiyaandi' (2013). In August 2012 the producer of 'Meleparambil Anveedu', Mani C. Kappan announced to remake the film in Assamese in a press conference held in Guwahati. Kappan himself produced and directed the film, titled 'Borolar Ghor' (2012) under the banner of Okay Productions.
References
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