Jamna Pyari is a 2015 Indian

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-language

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film directed by Thomas Sebastian. It was a superhit film.The film stars

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and Gayathri Suresh in the lead roles. Anishlal R S handles the cinematography.The music was composed by

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. The film released on 27 August 2015, received generally positive response from critics.

Plot

The story begins with Vasu (

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), father of Vasoottan (

) rescuing people from a bus which had fallen from a bridge in to a flooded river. During the rescue, Vasu drowns in front of the onlookers including his friend Prakashan (

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), his wife and his child while trying to rescue a kid. Then the story moves over to Vasoottan (

) who is an Auto-Rickshaw driver, who is a very helpful person possessing many good qualities like his father. He helps anyone who is in need. Sabu (

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) is Vasoottan's friend, who was a one time goon and got reformed due to Vasoottan's influence. Vasoottan helps Sabu to marry Vinitha (

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),his love interest. One day a girl named Parvathy ( Gayathri Suresh) hires his auto to go to the

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. After a few days Prakashan's son informs that a girl had come to their studio and had inquired about Vasoottan and also about the accident that took place long back in which Vasoottan had lost his Father. Vasoottan's friend Sabu speculates that it was Parvathy. Later, Vasoottan receives a call from Parvathy and she asks him to come to her house in order to meet her Father. Sabu and Prakashettan make a bet stating that Parvathy loves Vasoottan and had called him in order to fix their marriage. Vasoottan goes to her house and gets to know that they had called him to seek his help to deliver 100 Jamnapyari goats to a foreign firm. Parvathy's Father (Maniyan Pilla Raju) and Mother (Anju Aravind) pleads Vasoottan for his help and he agrees to help them to deliver the Jamna Pyari goats on time (within a period of 12 days). Sridharan (

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) is Parvathy's Father's rival and he tries all ways to get their business to fail with his money and muscle power. At first Vasoottan arranges 10 Jamna Pyaris from local, from where he gets Tony Kurishinkal as new to his team. Then they started giving advertisements in print, audio as well visual and e-medias. They received vide responses for the ads and finally they manages to reach the target. After too many complication, Vasoottan succeed in his target and he and Parvathy gets their love succeed at the end

Cast

as Vasoottan, a

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based Auto rickshaw driver, son of Vasu * Gayathri Suresh as Parvathy (Paaru) *

as Father of Vasoottan (Vasu) * Suraj Venjaramoodu as S.P Sabu *

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as Rameshan (Raam) *

as Sridharan *

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as Tony Kurishinkal (Bro) *

as Prakashettan, Friend of Vasoottan's father Vasu *

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as Veena *

as Vinitha *

Maniyanpilla Raju Sudheer Kumar (born 20 April 1955), better known by his stage name Maniyanpilla Raju (Malayalam:മണിയൻപിള്ള രാജു), is an Indian actor and producer who works in Malayalam film industry.Rajasree Nair as Vimala as Vasoottan's mother * Arjun Nandhakumar as Goutham/Sridharan's son *

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as Parvathy's mother * Gayathri Varsha *

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as cameo appearance * Harikumar as cameo appearance * Sarath Orippuram as a man in the title song.

Box office

The film made at a budget of stood at third position among the five

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release films at the box office. It grossed an amount of in 15 days of release.

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bagged the satellite rights. It collected from Kerala box office.

Soundtrack

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released the songs of ''Jamna Pyari''. The soundtrack was released during an audio launch event held at

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. The film crew chose an

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parking stand as the venue. Actor

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was the special guest for the event who launched the audio by unveiling the CD in the presence of local auto-rickshaw drivers and the public. The film has three songs, which are composed by

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and penned by B. K Harinarayanan. These include "Vasoottan" sung by

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, "Jamnapyari" sung by

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and Maqbool, and "Murugappa" (also penned by Kalai Kumar) sung by

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, Divya S. Menon and

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. The lyrics of the song "Vasoottan" was written in the

dialect.

References

External links

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