''Madaalasa'' is a 1978 Indian

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

-language film, directed by J. Williams and produced by Paul Vengola. The film stars

Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair (16 October 191611 March 1997) was an Indian poet, playwright, script writer, lyricist, orator, film director and actor, though he is best known as an actor in Malayalam cinema. He is the recipient of Padma Shri from t ...

Sreelatha Namboothiri Sreelatha Namboothiri (born Anjilivelil Vasantha) is an Indian actress and playback singer who works in Malayalam cinema and television. She has acted in more than 300 films. ''Khadeeja'' in 1967 was her debut movie. Early life Sreelatha was ...

Prathapachandran Prathapachandran (1941–2004) was an Indian actor, who worked predominantly in Malayalam film, Malayalam film industry, though he acted in a few Tamil and Telugu movies as well. He known for the portrayal of villainous and character roles in o ...

and

Sukumaran Edappal Ponnamkuzhi Veettil Parameswaran Sukumaran Nair (10 June 1948 – 16 June 1997), known mononymously as Sukumaran, was an Indian actor and producer of Malayalam films. Sukumaran became a popular film star in Malayalam cinema during the 1 ...

. The film has musical score by

K. J. Joy KJ Joy is a music director for the Malayalam film industry. He has composed music for 71 films. He began his career as music director in 1974, after many years as recording accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', fr ...

Plot

Pattalam Vasu is a lorry driver and a former service man, a drunkard, but with good principles. He is the guardian to Jaanu, his love interest, and to her sister Sumathi. Vasu loves her and wished to marry, but his conversations are always bitter, cruel and doubtful of her fidelity. Chandru (Mohan) who is studying in city come to his home town for vacation. Jaanu working as a house maid at Chandru's home for her earnings. Chandru is a teen aged youth who is struggling due to his age and got disturbed many times with the good looking Jaanu and her beauty. His lust on her is blaming day by day and make him restless. Meanwhile, Jaanu's younger sister Sumathi met with an accident and lost her eyesights. Jaanu has to depend on Chandru's mother, Kochamma (Sreelatha) for her sister's treatment. Jaanu has to make a big sum of money for her sister's operation. When Kochamma refused for the big sum of money, she has to make the money in an illegal way. She realizes that Chandru has lust on her. She plans to fulfill his lust and offer him a chance and tells him that she will wait for him at the pond side. When she was getting ready to meet Chandru, Vasu comes and make quarrel with her and go by saying that he will kill her, if he finds that she is illegal. Vasu comes home in anger after a while and found Jaanu is not in home. But Jaanu who was waiting for Chandru at the Pond side was killed. Based on the witnesses from all neighbors and Vasu's assistant, and on the allegations from all in that village, both Police and Court convicted Vasu as the accused and put him in jail. There is a comedy track handled by director (Jagathy) is moving in side track. But the Inspector (Prathap Chandran) who is learning this case believes that Vasu is not the killer of Jaanu. Also, he shows mercy on the killed Jaanu and adopts Jaanu's sister Sumathi as his daughter. His investigation starts here and finds the true killer of Jaanu and the reasons behind Jaanu's murder are the rest of the story.

Cast

Y. Vijaya Yenigandla Vijaya (born 8 February 1957) is an Indian actress and classical dancer. She has appeared in more than 1000 films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada languages. Early life and education Y. Vijaya was born on 8 February 1957 in Ku ...

as Jaanu *

as Kochamma, Chandru's mother *

as Inspector of Police *

as Pattalam Vasu *

Meena Meena () is a sub-group of Bhils. They speak Meena language. They started adopting the Brahmin worship system. Its name is also transliterated as ''Meenanda'' or ''Mina''. Historians claim that they belong to the Matsya tribe. They got the sta ...

* Mohan as Chandru *

Jagathy Sreekumar Sreekumar P. K. (born 5 January 1951), better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar or simply Jagathy, is an Indian actor, director and playback singer, who has appeared in over 1500 Malayalam films in a career spanning almost four decad ...

as Nandagopal, Cinema Director

Soundtrack

The music was composed by KJ Joy and the lyrics were written by

Yusufali Kechery Yusufali Kechery (Yūsaphali Kēccēri; യൂസഫലി കേച്ചേരി 16 May 1934 – 21 March 2015) was a poet, film lyricist, film producer and director from Kerala, India. He wrote during the modern era of Malayalam poetry and ...

References

External links

* 1978 films 1970s Malayalam-language films Films scored by K. J. Joy {{1970s-Malayalam-film-stub