''Manasariyathe'' () is a 1984 Indian

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directed by

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and written by Velliman Vijayan. It stars

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and

Nedumudi Venu Kesavan Venugopal (22 May 1948 – 11 October 2021), better known by his stage name Nedumudi Venu, was an Indian actor and screenwriter from Kerala, who predominantly worked in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more than 500 films, primarily in Ma ...

. The film's songs were composed by

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, while the background score was provided by

Pukazhenthi T. K. Velappan Nair (27 September 1929 – 27 February 2005), popularly known as Pukazhenthi, was an Indian music director of Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu films. Biography Pukazhenthi was born on 27 September 1929, in Thiruvananthapuram, to Kesh ...

Plot

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frequently troubles a happy family. This leads the husband to threaten the guy publicly. The next day the guy turns up in the family house as a corpse. How the family deals with the corpse and who was responsible for the death is the rest of the movie.

Cast

as Mammootty *

as Venu *

as Sindhu * Bhagyasri *

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as Ambilykuttan *

Sankaradi Chandrashekaran Menon, better known by his screen name Sankaradi (14 July 1924 – 8 October 2001), was an Indian actor. He was a veteran Malayalam comedian and character artist, who had over 700 Malayalam films to his credit. He dominated the ...

as Sankaran *

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 ...

as Minimol * Philomina * Sathar as Mohan

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

and the lyrics were written by

Poovachal Khader Poovachal Khader (25 December 1948 – 22 June 2021) was a Malayalam lyricist from Kerala who worked mainly in Malayalam film industry. His first movie as a lyricist was ''Kaattuvithachavan'' (1973) but his first released movie was ''Chuzhi'' ( ...

Release

References

External links

* * https://web.archive.org/web/20110115070333/http://www.mallumovies.org/movie/manasariyathe * http://www.bharatmovies.com/malayalam/info/manasariyathe.htm 1980s Malayalam-language films 1984 films 1980s horror thriller films Indian horror thriller films Films scored by Raghu Kumar 1984 horror films {{1980s-horror-film-stub