''Madampi'' () is a 2008 Indian

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-language

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film written and directed by

B. Unnikrishnan Unnikrishnan B (born 14 August 1970) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, distributor and exhibitor who works in the Malayalam film industry. Early life Unnikrishnan. B. was born on 14 August 1970 in Pathanamthitta district in Kerala, I ...

. It stars

Mohanlal Mohanlal Viswanathan (born 21 May 1960), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor, film producer, playback singer, film distributor, and director who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically appeare ...

, Siddique,

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Kavya Madhavan Kavya Madhavan (born 19 September 1984) is a former Indian actress, who appeared predominantly in Malayalam films. She made her debut in 1991 as a child artist in '' Pookkalam Varavayi''. Her debut role as a lead actress was in Lal Jose's '' ...

Mallika Kapoor Mallika Kapoor is an Indian actress, working in the South Indian film industries mainly in Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada. She has also appeared in a few Telugu and Hindi films. Biography Kapoor was raised in a middle-class Punjabi family. Her f ...

, and

K. P. A. C. Lalitha Maheshwari Amma, better known by her stage name K. P. A. C. Lalitha, was an Indian film and stage actress who worked primarily in Malyalam. She started her acting career with K. P. A. C., a theatre collective in Kayamkulam, Kerala. In a caree ...

. The film was released on 4 July 2008. It received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success.

Plot

Gopalakrishna Pillai (

) is a rich money-lender in a village called Elavumthitta in

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. People misunderstand him to be money-minded, without having any emotional bond even towards his mother Devaki Amma (

KPAC Lalitha Maheshwari Amma, better known by her stage name K. P. A. C. Lalitha, was an Indian film and stage actress who worked primarily in Malyalam. She started her acting career with K. P. A. C., a theatre collective in Kayamkulam, Kerala. In a caree ...

) or younger brother Ramakrishna Pillai (

). As the story moves along, we learn more about the hero. He is considered heartless, as he threw out his father Madhava Menon ( Sai Kumar) when he was a teenager, for his father's wayward lifestyle. His mother hates him for doing that and his brother hates him because he does not let his brother pursue his dream of being an actor and never gives him any freedom. His main antagonists are Sreedharan ( Siddique) and his younger brothers.

assumes the role of Jayalakshmi, a bank manager who is seen as a threat to Gopalakrishna Pillai's money lending business. It turns out that Ramakrishna Pillai is in love with a girl (

) from Gopalakrishna Pillai's rival family. Though Gopalakrishnan Pillai arranges the marriage forgetting the rivalry, after marriage he asks his brother to repay him the expenses he incurred for the marriage and prompts the newlyweds to sleep separately. With this he becomes the most hated person of his brother and mother. Frustrated, Ramakrishna Pillai leaves the house and joins his in-laws against Gopalakrishna Pillai by saying that his money-lending business is illegal. Still that doesn't work. Ramakrishna Pillai accuses his brother of processioning the family wealth alone and he gives false information to the Income Tax Department files a suite against him in court. In the climax it is revealed by Gopalakrishna Pillai's advocate (

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 ...

) that Gopalakrishna Pillai has kept his hard-earned wealth in the name of his younger brother and he was always hard on him just to make him responsible. It also is revealed that his father was not thrown out, but committed suicide in

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due to his debts. The story ends happily as the brothers reunite and everyone apologises to Gopalakrishna Pillai.

Cast

as Puthanveetil Gopalakrishna Pillai * Siddique as Kottilakathu Sreedharan *

as Puthanveetil Ramakrishna Pillai *

as Shymala, Parameswaran's daughter and Ramakrishnan's wife *

as Jayalakshmi *

as Puthanveetil Devakiyamma, Gopalakrishna Pillai's and Ramakrishna Pillai's Mother *

as Advocate Mohan Kumar *

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as Karayogam President Divakaran Nair * Vijayakumar as Aravindan, Kottilakathu Parameswaran's Second Son * Kiran Raj as Raghu, Kottilakathu Parameswaran's Youngest Son *

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 Keedam Vasu * V. K. Sreeraman as Kottilakathu Parameswaran Kurup * M. R. Gopakumar as Kottilakathu Raghavan, Parameswaran's younger brother *

Kozhikode Narayanan Nair Kozhikode Narayanan Nair is an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema, who has acted in more than 300 films. He entered the "Malayalam" movie industry (Mollywood) through a drama troupe. His first film was ''Aabhijathyam'' (1970), and he is also reme ...

as Saghavu Kumaran * Sai Kumar as Madhava Menon, father of Gopalakrishna Pillai and Ramakrishna Pillai * Tony Sigimon as Babu, Mohan Kumar's son *

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as Justice Sukumara Kurup (Cameo) * Biju Pappan as S.I Vincent * Deepika Mohan as Nandini, Raghavan's wife * Lakshmipriya as Lathika, Mohan Kumar's wife *

Krishna Praba Krishna Praba is an Indian actress and professional dancer who chiefly appears in Malayalam films. She made her entry into the film industry with the film ''Madampi'' (2008), directed by B. Unnikrishnan. She played the character Mollykutty in ...

as Bhavani * Ashwin Menon as Gopalakrishna Pillai (childhood) * Swathy Sunilkumar as Jayalakshmi (childhood)

Production

Filming was completed on 4 June 2008 in

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. Mohanlal had 47 days of shoot.

Soundtrack

The film has four songs composed by

M. Jayachandran Madhusoodanan Jayachandran is an Indian composer, singer, and musician. He has won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director for a record number of nine times. In 2005, he also won the state award for best male singer. In 2015, he wo ...

. The lyrics are by

Gireesh Puthenchery Girish Puthenchery (1961–2010) was a noted Malayalam Lyricist, Poet, Scriptwriter and Screenwriter. He was always referred to as the aristocratic lyricist of Malayalam who had a distinctive writing style of his own. He also served as the direc ...

and

Anil Panachooran Anil Panachooran (20 November 1969 – 3 January 2021) was an Indian lawyer, poet and lyricist, who worked in the Malayalam film industry. While undergoing treatment for COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, he died on 3 January 2021, f ...

(''Jeevitham Oru). The songs "Amma Mazhakarinu" and "Kalyanakacheri" were chartbusters.

Box office

The film collected 1.37 crore from 61 screens in its first weekend (3 days) from Kerala. The film was made on a budget of 3.5 crores. The film got 1 crore 90 lakhs as distribution share, 1 crore 8 lakhs as satellite and video rights, 9 lakhs as audio rights and 25 lakhs as overseas right. It got a gross collection of 7.5 crores within 30 days. The film collected 100 million in total. The movie ran more than 100 days in major centres. ''Madampi'' became one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of the year.

Awards

;

Kerala State Film Awards The Kerala State Film Awards are the film awards for a motion picture made in Kerala. The awards started in 1969 by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala and since 1998 the awards have been bestowed by Kerala State Cha ...

– Best Music Director (Kalyanakacheri, Amma Mazhakkarinu) *

Shankar Mahadevan Shankar Mahadevan (born 3 March 1967) is an Indian singer and composer who is part of the Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy trio that writes music for Indian films. Personal life and early career Shankar Mahadevan was born in Chembur, Mumbai into a Tami ...

– Best Male Playback Singer (Kalyanakacheri) ;

Filmfare Awards South Filmfare Awards South is the South Indian segment of the annual Filmfare Awards, presented by the Filmfare magazine of The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Indian film industry encompassing ...

* Dr. K. J. Yesudas – Best Male Playback Singer (Amma Mazhakkarinu) *

– Best Lyricist (Amma Mazhakkarinu) ; Asianet Film Award * Best Actor –

;

Vanitha Film Awards The Vanitha Film Awards are presented annually by ''Vanitha'', an Indian magazine from the ''Malayala Manorama'' group in the south Indian state of Kerala. The awards ceremony has been instituted to honour both artistic and technical excellence i ...

*Best Actor – Mohanlal ;AMMA (Dubai) Award * Best Actor – Mohanlal

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 1263795, Madampi 2008 films 2000s Malayalam-language films Films scored by M. Jayachandran Indian family films Films shot in Palakkad Films shot in Ottapalam Films shot at Varikkasseri Mana Films shot in Thrissur Films directed by B. Unnikrishnan