''Love In Singapore'' is a 2009 Indian

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film directed by

Rafi Mecartin Rafi may refer to: Places * Rafi, Iran, a city in Khuzestan Province * Rafi, Abadan, a village in Khuzestan Province * Rafi, Nigeria, a Local Government Area of Niger State Other uses * Rafi (name), a name of Arabic origin * Rafi (political party) ...

, starring

Mammootty Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail (; born 7 September 1951), known mononymously by the hypocorism Mammootty (), is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema, Malayalam films. He has also appeared in Tamil l ...

in lead role. Navneet Kaur made her Malayalam debut through this film.

Plot

Machu, an orphan who became rich by selling scrap. The prime location for the film is in a large hall at a

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factory in

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. Machu starts off rather humbly but soon gets rich. Now his scrap business has branches all over India. Machu, who is uneducated, keeps a low profile and prefers to hang out with his two friends, Shukkoor and Narayanan. His life changes when Andrews Perreira, an Anglo Indian investor cheats Machu into investing all his wealth into Perreira's investment company. Perreira acts as if he tried to commit suicide to give his investment fraud a lively touch. The innocent investors, including Machu, believe this and forgive Perreira, believing it wasn't his fault. The movie takes a wild turn when Machu meets Perreira's daughter, Diana, and wishes to marry her. But Perreira betrays Machu again by interchanging his daughter with his neighbour's daughter, an old friend of Machu's. On the wedding day, all falls apart as Machu and his friends goes to confront Perreira for his crimes, but Perreira with his daughter had already escaped to Singapore. Then the movie goes into utter humour as Machu and his sidekick tries to locate Perreira and Diana in Singapore.

Cast

as Machu * Navneet Kaur as Diana Pereira *

Suraj Venjaramoodu Suraj Vasudevan (born 30 June 1976), professionally credited as Suraj Venjaramoodu, is an Indian actor, comedian, impressionist, and television presenter, who appears in Malayalam films, television and stage plays. He has acted in more than 2 ...

as Peethambaran *

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as Tony *

Bijukuttan Biju Kuttan (born 13 May 1976) is an Indian actor and comedian who appears in Malayalam films. As of June 2021, he has acted in more than 70 Malayalam films. Biju Kuttan is born in North Paravur, Ernakulam . He completed most of his schooling ...

as Narayanan *

Salim Kumar Salim Kumar (born 10 October 1969) is an Indian actor, comedian, director and writer in Malayalam cinema. Mostly known for his comic and comedy roles, Salim Kumar is considered one of the best and most prominent comedians in the history of Mala ...

as Shukkoor *

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as Police officer Rathnam *

Rajan P. Dev Rajan P. Dev (20 May 1951 – 29 July 2009) was an Indian film and stage actor. He was born in Cherthala in the Alappuzha district of the former state Thiru-Kochi (present day Kerala). He had acted in over 500 films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu ...

as Irumbu Mani *

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as Andrews Pereira * Janardhanan *

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as Diana's Aunt * John Kokken as Rahul *

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Production

The film was produced by Rafi, under the banner M.H.M. Productions. Lyrics of Rajeev Alunkal and Santosh Varma have been set to music by

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. The still photographer is Sunil Guruvayur.

Navaneet Kaur Navneet Kaur Rana (also known as Navneet Ravi Rana) is a former Indian actress who mainly acted in Telugu cinema. She is an elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Amravati (Lok Sabha constituency), Amravati in 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an I ...

was chosen as the female lead because the makers wanted a woman "who looks cosmopolitan". Shooting locations included Kochi,

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and Singapore.

Soundtrack

Reception

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wrote that "the script is illogical and consists of many 'laugh a minute' portions that have been put together to make this film. ..''Love in Singapore'' is one of the worst efforts by the director duo Rafi-Mecartin in recent times." Sify wrote, "In one word, avoidable."

References

External links

* {{Rafi Mecartin 2000s Malayalam-language films 2009 comedy-drama films 2009 films Films shot in Singapore Films shot in Karaikudi Films shot in Kochi Indian comedy-drama films Films scored by Suresh Peters Films directed by Rafi–Mecartin