''Iblis'' (; ) is a 2018 Indian
Malayalam
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-language
fantasy comedy
Fantasy comedy or comic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that is primarily humorous in intent and tone. Typically set in imaginary worlds, fantasy comedy often involves puns on and parodies of other works of fantasy.
Literature
The subgenre rose ...
film directed by Rohith V. S. with
Asif Ali and
Madonna Sebastian starring. The film was produced by Ichais Productions. The film was released on 3 August 2018.
Synopsis
The film is set in the 1980s and contains themes of fantasy and magical realism and also the film tells about life, death and life after death.
Plot
Vaisakhan lives in an unknown land, playing music at the homes where someone has died. He is a carefree youth, who is madly in love with Fida. His concepts of death and afterlife have heavily been influenced by his "muthassan" or grandpa, Sreedharan.
This muthassan is a weird character who enjoys his life, travelling like a nomad. He is a funny character who even plans to make Vaisakhan and Fida fall in love.
Cast
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Asif Ali as Vaishakan
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Madonna Sebastian as Fida, love interest of Vaishakan
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Lal
Lal ( fa, لعل, hi, लाल, bn, লাল, ur, لال, ps, Lāl) is an Indo-Iranian surname and given name, which means "darling", "precious", or "beloved", from the Sanskrit ''lala'' ("cajoling").''Dictionary of American Family Names''F ...
as Shreedharan
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Siddique as Jabbar
*Rugmini Amma as Beevi
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Saiju Kurup
Saiju Kurup (born 12 March 1979) is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema and occasionally in Tamil cinema. He is credited as Anirudh in Tamil movies. He debuted in ''Mayookham'' (2005) by Hariharan. As of June 2021, he h ...
as Sukumaran
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Sreenath Bhasi as
Attar merchant/Subair
*Adhish Praveen as Musthafa
*Shivakumar Nair as Josettan
*Nazeer as Kelu
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Gokulan as Vareed
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Babu Annur as Sulaiman, Fida's father
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Aju Varghese
Aju Kurian Varghese (born 11 January 1985) better known as Aju Varghese is an Indian actor and producer who appears in Malayalam cinema. He made his debut in 2010 in ''Malarvadi Arts Club'', directed by his college classmate Vineeth Sreenivas ...
as King (cameo appearance)
Production
''Iblis'' is the second directorial of Rohith V. S. with Asif Ali after his debut film ''
Adventures of Omanakuttan
''Adventures of Omanakkuttan'' is a 2017 Indian Malayalam comedy film directed by debutant Rohith V. S.. The story was conceived by Sameer Abdul and he wrote the screenplay along with the director. It stars Asif Ali, Bhavana, Aju Varghese and Sa ...
'' (2017). The film is set in the 1980s, Rohith describes the film a "musical adventure-comedy", planned on the lines of ''
Jagga Jasoos
''Jagga Jasoos'' () is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language musical adventure comedy film written and directed by Anurag Basu, and produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur, Basu and Ranbir Kapoor. It stars Kapoor and Katrina Kaif, and tells the story of a teena ...
''. Rohith discussed the project with Asif during the filming of ''Adventures of Omanakuttan'' and also retained its co-writer Sameer Abdul and cinematographer Akhil George for ''Iblis''. Asif too contributed to the script.
It was produced by the company Ichais Productions, in their debut. ''Iblis'' has music composed by
Dawn Vincent. A
pooja function for the film was held in early March 2018.
Release
The film was released on 3 August 2018.
References
External links
*{{IMDb title, 7601594
2010s Malayalam-language films
Indian fantasy comedy films
2010s fantasy comedy films
2018 comedy films