''Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu'' () is a 1994 Indian

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 2 ...

-language comedy-drama film directed by

Viji Thampi Viji Thampi is an Indian film director, actor and social activist who works in Malayalam films. Thampi is a member of Thiruvananthapuram regional board of the Central Board of Film Certification and the State Advisor of Kerala Kshetra Samraksha ...

and written by

Sasidharan Arattuvazhi Sasidharan Arattuvazhi (25 August 1955 21 January 2001) was an Indian playwright and screenwriter. Within a career spanning more than two decades, he wrote 20 screenplays and 12 plays. Biography Sasi was born at Arattuvazhi in Alappuzha dist ...

from a story by

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, who also produced the film. Starring Urvashi, Manoj K. Jayan,

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 decades ...

, Kalpana, K. P. A. C. Lalitha,

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, Janardhanan,

Ratheesh Ratheesh (1954–2002) was an Indian actor best known for his work in Malayalam cinema. He was a native of Kalavoor in the Alappuzha district of Kerala, India. He performed villainous roles during the 1990s. He had acted in 158 films with direc ...

and Sai Kumar. The story revolves around

paying guest ''Paying Guest'' is a 1957 Bollywood Romance drama film directed by Subodh Mukherjee. The film stars Dev Anand and Nutan along with Shubha Khote. The soundtrack, composed by Sachin Dev Burman, received a degree of popularity and made a lasti ...

s in a female-only homestay who identify themselves as

misandrist Misandry () is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men. Men's rights activists and other masculinist groups have criticized modern laws concerning divorce, domestic violence, the draft, circumcision (known as genital mutilation ...

s. The film was a commercial success at the box office. It was remade in

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as '' Adalla Majaka'' in the next year.

Plot

The story revolves around a paying guest home run by Chinthamani Ammal who is a determined

due to a failed love affair. Only misandrists are allowed as

s. Ponnamma, one of the paying guests, hates men because of her parents being partial to her twin brother Ponnappan. Another guest, Nancy, is a lawyer and is engaged on a post divorce custody battle for the child with her ex-husband Tony Varghese. Vasundhara and Bhagyarekha, the other two guests, pretend to be misandrists to please Chinthamani Ammal. One day a man (

) enters their house resulting in him being assaulted by Chintamani Ammal. A while later, when he wakes up, to everybody’s horror, they find out that the man became mentally retarded. The other lodgers blame Chinthamani Ammal as she was the assaulter. The lodgers as well as Chintamani Ammal try to bring back his memory but in vain. At last they decide to bring back Chinthamani Ammal’s long lost lover to cure him, who called himself as Ikru and behaves in a childish manner. Finally Ikru, whose real name is Sathyaseelan, is cured and Chinthamani and her lover reunite. In between Bhagyarekha falls in love with Sachidanandan, a local man. When goons try to attack her, Sachi comes there and saves her ending up in police station but is freed in the end. Then Bhagyarekha’s flashback is revealed. She used to work in a hotel with her sister. When her sister was about to be

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she tried to fight back resulting in a goon’s assistance’s death. From then on she was hiding from the goons. Many other sequences occur which shows how Sachi and Bhagya try to escape from the goons which forms the rest of the movie. In the end everybody finds their own love and happiness.

Cast

as Bhagyarekha / Sujatha *

Manoj K Jayan Manoj Kadampoothramadom Jayan also known as Manoj K.Jayan is an Indian actor of Malayalam and Tamil films. He has also done a few Telugu and Kannada films and has also acted in a Bollywood film. Manoj has won three Kerala State Film Award for ...

as Sachidanandan *

as Ikru/Sathyaseelan * Kalpana as Ponnamma/Ponnappan * K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Chindamani Ammal *

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as Vasundhara * Janardhanan as Dr. Vishnunarayanan Potti a.k.a. V N Potti *

as Adv. Nancy Joseph * Jagannathan as Vengidi * Sai Kumar as Binoy Viswam *

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as Pappaswami * Sukumari as Ammalu *

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as Muthiyamma *

as Adv.Tony Varghese *

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as Douglas *

as Rajeevan, hotel employee *

Kollam Thulasi Kollam Kanjaveli Kuttilazhikathu Thulasidharan Nair is an actor in Malayalam cinema, who is better known as Kollam Thulasi relating to the name of his birthplace Kollam to his first name as customary in some parts of Kerala. His first appearanc ...

Dileep Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan Pillai, better known by his stage name Dileep, is an Indian actor, producer, and businessman who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry. He has acted in more than 150 films and has won several awards, inc ...

as Kishore *

Idavela Babu Ammanath Babu Chandran (born 11 August 1963), better known by his stage name Edavela Babu, is an Indian actor who appears in Malayalam cinema. He made his acting debut in 1982 with '' Idavela'', from which he got his stage name. Since then, he ...

*Yadu Krishnan *Nandulal

Soundtrack

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0353880, Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu 1994 films 1990s Malayalam-language films Indian comedy-drama films Films directed by Viji Thampi Malayalam films remade in other languages