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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 Baby and produced by A.Sheriff. The film stars
Jayan Krishnan Nair (25 July 1939 – 16 November 1980), better known by his stage name Jayan, was an Indian actor, naval officer, stunt performer and cultural icon of the 1970s and 1980s. He starred in over 150 Malayalam films. During his film caree ...
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Jayabharathi Jayabharathi is an Indian actress. She is a two-time recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for best actress. Jayabharathi's first leading role was given by director P. Bhaskaran for his movie Kattukurangu in 1969. Later she became one of ...
, Vidhubhala, Seema,
Prem Nazir Prem Nazir (born Abdul Khader; 7 April 1926 – 16 January 1989) was an Indian actor known as one of Malayalam cinema's definitive leading man, leading men of his generation. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential actors in the histo ...
and Bhavani. The film has musical score by A.T Ummer.


Cast

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Jayan Krishnan Nair (25 July 1939 – 16 November 1980), better known by his stage name Jayan, was an Indian actor, naval officer, stunt performer and cultural icon of the 1970s and 1980s. He starred in over 150 Malayalam films. During his film caree ...
as James *
Jayabharathi Jayabharathi is an Indian actress. She is a two-time recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for best actress. Jayabharathi's first leading role was given by director P. Bhaskaran for his movie Kattukurangu in 1969. Later she became one of ...
as Stella *
Prem Nazir Prem Nazir (born Abdul Khader; 7 April 1926 – 16 January 1989) was an Indian actor known as one of Malayalam cinema's definitive leading man, leading men of his generation. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential actors in the histo ...
as Dr.Rajan * Bhavani as Maya * Ravikumar as Ravi * Seema as Daniya Kuruvila * Vidhubhala as Ramani * Jose Prakash as Joseph Kuruvila * Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Marykutty * Kamalhassan (Guest Appearance) as Dr.Vinodh * Shankharadi as Avarachan *Meena as Mariamma *Baby Sunathy as Young Daniya *Jagathy Sreekumar as Watcher in Shimla


Soundtrack

The music was composed by A.T Ummer with lyrics by Sreekumaran Thampi.


Plot

Dr. Joseph Kuruvila is a kind-hearted man, who he and his wife adopted his sister's son, James, after the death of his parents. After several years, his daughter, Daniya Kuruvila, who is very affectionately and deeply in love with James, and tries to get close to him, but James considers her as a sister. On the other hand, James has a friend, Dr. Rajan, who is in love with Daniya but she does not know. Ramesh is also secretly loved by the servant of his house. Ramani also shows another story of the other friend of James, Ravi and his lover Maya, who is a Journalist. When James is posted as the new MD of Kuruvilas' company, he falls in love with his new beautiful Stenographer, Stella. At first she refuses his proposal because she is very poor and has to look after her family consisting of her father, her step-mother who is very cruel and rude to her, and also her step-sisters who are young. She had to look after the entire family as she is the only income-earning person in their family. James feels pity over her after hearing the story and decides to marry her, so he visits her house and her step-mother is very that he is rich. Daniya came to know about this and becomes very angry and tells her father that she wants to marry James, but Kuruvila decided James to get married to Stella. Distraught and devasted with anger, Daniya decides to seek revenge by acting that she is happy in front of everyone and secretly visits black magic women, Hidumbi, who gives her a necklace to give to Stella, which does not allow James and Stella to get intimate. Daniya gives the necklace to Stella as a gift which she wears. James and Stella get married but on the first night she refuses to consummate their marriage, when James came close to her she tells him that she has a headache and sleeps. One day everyone finds that Joseph Kuruvila is in a coma and none of them knows the reason. After so many months, whenever James and Stella came close, Daniya comes there and calls James. After so many months after their marriage everyone in the family thinks that why Stella is not getting pregnant. And James' aunt tells to him and Stella to visit the Temple in Shimla which is very wondered and everyone's wish will be satisfied. James and Stella unwillingly visits the temple by the orders of their family. When they visit Shimla, Daniya plans to kill Stella by over-freezing her with ice. And when one day they go for a walk, Daniya with the help of the black magician traps Stella when she falls from a bridge and gets frozen in an ice cage. The necklace which was given Daniya had broken. James tries to rescue her and destroys the cage and takes Stella to a cottage and tells the Watcher of the cottage to call the doctor by giving him money, when he went to the doctor's clinic it was closed and he goes away with the money. With no help, James decides to save Stella anyway from dying and when he remembers Rajans thoughts that the two body temperature will reduce the cold of one body and heats up another body by sexual relationship. James decides to do that and have sexual contact with Stella which rescues her from being dead. After the necklace had broke, Stella too falls in love with James. Daniya becomes over angered. They came back from the temple happily. After some months, Stella gets pregnant which is brought happiness to the whole family. Maya has a doubt over Daniya and secretly observes her and recorded her behaviours. One day, Daniya plans to kill Stella and the child by putting abortion pills and poison in an orange juice for Stella which was given by the servant who is her partner. Stella has a miscarriage and everyone rushes her to the hospital and the doctor says that the child is lost and that Stella was also poisoned and is at the deathbed. Rajan calls his friend, the best poison specialist, Dr. Vinodh and he reaches in time and saves Stella. Vinodh tells to James that someone had mixed poison in the drink, everyone suspects the servant and Daniya dismisses the servant. But Maya and Ravi says that they suspects Daniya, but everyone doesn't believe. One day, Joseph Kuruvila speaks and tells to everyone that Daniya is a mental patient who had suffered from psychic disorder at her school times and killed many people, and she had paralyzed him by giving him over dose of pills. James, Rajan and other search for Stella but Daniya had taken her away to kill her. James finds them and rescues Stella, and Rajan takes Daniya for treatment and she tells her whole story to him, when the day comes when Daniya's treatment is over, everyone came to visit her but she is not there, they get a letter that is written by Daniya that she is going to end her life. Everyone rushes fast and finds Daniya at a top of a mountain when she tries to jump, James rescues her but she tells that she has done so many sins and killed many people and now she has realised all her mistakes, she is not own to live in the world and by asking everyone forgiveness she ends her life. Rajan married poor Ramani by realising her real love for him. Stella and James lives happily. Maya and Ravi get married.


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* 1977 films 1970s Malayalam-language films Films directed by J. Sasikumar {{1970s-Malayalam-film-stub