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Lalitham Sundaram
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Wikipedia article
'Lalitham Sundaram' is a Malayalam-language comedy-drama film directed by Madhu Warrier in his directorial debut. The film stars Biju Menon, Manju Warrier, Saiju Kurup, Deepti Sati and Anu Mohan. Manju Warrier co-produced the film with Kochumon under the banner Manju Warrier Productions.
Synopsis
Sunny (Biju Menon), Annie (Manju Warrier), and their younger brother Jerry (Anu Mohan) are disconnected from their family due to their busy schedule. The siblings reunite for their mother's (Zarina Wahab) death anniversary and decide to fulfill her last wish. This reunion leads to a series of hilarious incidents that eventually help them repair their dysfunctional familial bonds.
Cast
*Biju Menon as Sunny Mary Das
*Manju Warrier as Annie Mary Das
*Anu Mohan as Jerry Mary Das Kunjan
*Raghunath Paleri as Das
*Saiju Kurup as Sandeep, Annie's husband
*Deepti Sati as Simy, Jerry's girlfriend
*Sudheesh as Rajesh, Sunny's friend
*Remya Nambeesan as Sophia, Sunny's wife
*Zarina Wahab as Mary Das
*Madhu Warrier as Doctor
*Nandhu as Music Director Harikumar
*Vinod Thomas as Xavier
*Anjana Appukuttan as Lisy
*Thennal Abhilash as Rukmini Rukku, Annie's daughter
*Ashwin Warrier as Paul, Annie's son
*Ambika Mohan as Sister Maria
*Asha Aravind as Priya
Production
Pre-production
The film was announced by Mammootty and Mohanlal in their respective social media accounts in January 2020. The puja of the film was on February 18, 2020.P Sukumar does the cinematography for the film along with Gautham Sankar and Lijo Paul handles the editing. Bineesh Chandran is the Art director of the movie and Sakhi Elsa is the costume designer. The National Film Award winning, choreographer, Kala Master is the dance choreographer of the movie.
Filming
The principal photography of the film began in February 2020 at Peermade and Vandiperiyar The film was planned to be shot on a single schedule, but the shooting came to a sudden hault due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in March, 2020. The crew had completed about half of the shooting before the lockdown. After about nine month's lockdown, the shooting was resumed in December 2020. As there was a long gap between the two schedules the director says that all the actors had to begin from the scratch again. The second schedule was shot in Peermade and Ernakulam. The filming was wrapped up in January 2021.Music
Bijibal is the music director for this film and, B.K.Harinarayanan is the lyricist.
Release
'Lalitham Sundaram' was released on 18 March 2022. The film was initially planned to be released in July 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, It was slated for multiple times including for April 2021, August 2021, September 2021, January 2022, but they failed to release it, due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On 26 February 2022, It was announced that the film would be skipping its theatrical release and takes to direct-to-digital release on Disney+ Hotstar.
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