''Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram'' ( ml, കരയിലേക്ക്‌ ഒരു കടൽ ദൂരം; en, A Sea Away to the Shore) is a 2010

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film directed by Vinod Mankara, starring Indrajith,

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and

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in the lead roles.

Plot

Anoop Chandran ( Indrajith), is a famous writer and award winner. Prone to seeing future events that turn out to be real, Anoop one day sees his own death in a trance. He decides to write one final novel before death. Anoop has a wife, Meera (

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), who never understands the writer in him. At the same time, Anoop is in love with dancer Gatha (

), with whom he shares a live-in relationship. Anoop always tells Gatha about his lost love Sathyabhama (

), who was his lover in college. Excited about hearing Sathyabhama aka Bhama, Gatha wants to locate Bhama and goes to Anoop's ''tharavadu'' (ancestral house) with him. From there they go to Bhama's birthplace Vattakkulam to find Bhama. That place incidentally was the birthplace of Gatha's parents as well. They returned, unsuccessful in finding Bhama. Gatha went to

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for her dance performances while Anoop returned to Kerala. Three months later, Gatha gets a call from Anoop. Gatha is shocked to hear that actually there was no girl named Bhama. She was an imaginary character created by Anoop for his final novel. Anoop was actually developing Bhama's story through Gatha. Anoop tells Gatha that he sent the novel to her and she has the right to give it a title and publish it. He also tells her that he is about to reach the end of his life, which he realised some time back. In the final scene, we see Anoop heading to some remote destination in the snow-clad mountains, to embrace his death.

Cast

* Indrajith as Anoop Chandran *

as Gadha *

as Sathyabhama *

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as "Devi" (Goddess) *

as Meera * T. P. Madhavan as Kunjettan *

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as Doctor *

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as Anoop's mother * M. Jayachandran as himself *

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as the man near the temple *

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as Anoop's grandmother *

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as Sreedhara Pisharadi *

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as Postman * Ambika Mohan as Janaki *

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as the man in bar *Nisha Sarang as Bhanu

Accolades

* Vinod Mankara won the 2010 Kerala Film Critics Award for the'Best Debutant Director'. * M Jayachandran won the 2010

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Soundtrack

The music director M. Jayachandran makes an appearance in the film as himself, performing the song "''Nee Illa Enkil''".

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, tt1849787, Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram
Karayilekku Oru Kadaldooram MSI

Karayilekk Oru Kadal Dooram M3DB
Indian romantic musical films 2010s Malayalam-language films Films scored by M. Jayachandran 2010 films 2010s romantic musical films