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Sipayi Lahala
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Wikipedia article
'Sipayi Lahala' is an Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film directed by Vinayan and written by Sreenivasan from a story by Vinayan in 1995 . It stars Mukesh, Vani Viswanath, Vijayaraghavan, Nirosha and Sreenivasan.
Plot
Rajendran (Mukesh) is portrayed as a peon in Brittoli company. Its Managing Director Ramanathan (Vijayaraghavan) is a pompous womanizer. Accountant Appukkuttan Menon (Sreenivasan) is his close friend and trusted advisor.
Rajendran, with the help of Appukkuttan pretends to be the manager so that his love interest Radhika's parents allow their wedding. Appukkuttan convinces Ramanathan that he can have Radhika if he lets Rajendran be the manager. Ramanatahan wants to meet Rajendran's wife, and he arranges a reception. Now Appukutan arranges a girl to act as Rajendran's wife for the reception. During the reception, Rajendran is asked to sing while Ramanatahan tries to romance Rajendran's wife and tells Appukutan to take her to his room. After the party, Rajendran and Appukutan return to their home. They tell the pimp to collect the girl from the reception area. The pimp comes out of the reception area with the girl but a van of thugs block the autorickshaw and kidnap the girl.
Next day, the pimp comes back to Appukutan and Rajendran for help to find the girl. Both of them tell they paid the price and their roles are over and the pimp should find the girl himself. Now suddenly the police comes to Brittoli office and takes Appukutan to the police station. Appukutan claims he does not know of the girl's present situation. Appukutan comes back home and tells Rajendran of the police enquiry. Both of them plan to leave the area. Now Rajendran's mother and Radhika, real wife of Rajendran, come to their home. Appukutan tries to run away, but Rajendran locks Appukutan in a room. Appukuttan escapes from the room and disappears.
The missing girl's father, Varma, comes in search of her. Varma demands that Rajendran find the girl within twenty four hours. Rajendran finally gets Appukutan and they both go for shopping with Radhika, who was saddened by Rajendran's behaviour. At the shopping area, Ramanathan sees Radhika, who is now alone with Appukutan after Rajendran hides, seeing Ramanathan coming. Ramanathan asks Appukutan about Radhika, and Appukutan replies vaguely. Appukutan and Rajendran go to Ramanathan's house and say that Cleopatra will release an attack on Brittoli. Hearing this, Ramanathan goes with thugs to Varma's area, but Varma's people beat Ramanathan and his gang.
Varma's wife comes to Rajendran's house and tells Rajendran the girl is not Varma's daughter and that Varma wanted to make money by showing the girl and she will commit suicide if the girl does not come back after "marrying" Rajendran. Rajendran proclaims his innocence and the lady leaves crying. Rajendran phones Varma and scolds him. Rajendran sees Radhika crying. Radhika tells him she went to Varma's house to see the lady and she knows Rajendran is a bad person with many wives. Radhika takes her bag and walks away, Rajendran follows her, but a gang kidnaps Radhika. Rajendran becomes very sad, goes to Ramanatahan's guest house, and finds the girl. Now Rajendran calls Varma to come to the guesthouse.
Varma with his thugs come and fight with Ramanathan, Appukutan and Rajendran. The fight ends and Ramanathan tells that on the reception night itself the girl revealed that she was not his wife and is beaten as punishment. Radhika was kidnapped by Ramanathan. Radhika goes with Appukutan and Rajendran. While walking, Rajendran tells he did all this to marry Radhika. Radhika says it would have been better if he didn't lie. The film ends with Rajendran now back in a peon's dress.
Cast
*Mukesh as Brittoli Rajendran
*Sreenivasan as Appukkuttan Menon
*Vani Viswanath as Radhika
*Vijayaraghavan as Managing Director Ramanathan
*Nirosha as Sajitha
*K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Radhika's Mother
*Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Radhika's Father
*Sadiq as Planter Ravi
*N. F. Varghese as Varma
*Zeenath as Rajendran's Mother
*Kunchan as Narayanan
*Kanakalatha as Thankamma
*Spadikam George as Sub Inspector
*Poornima Indrajith as Office Staff
*Sonia Baiju Kottarakara as Nancy
Soundtrack
The film includes songs composed by S. P. Venkitesh, with lyrics by Gireesh Puthenchery.
References
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