''Shibu'' is a 2019 Indian

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-language film directed by duo directors Arjun and Gokul, written by Praneesh, and produced by Kaargo Cinemas. It features an

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led by Karthik,

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, and

Biju Kuttan Biju Kuttan (born 13 May 1976) is an Indian actor and comedian who appears in Malayalam films. As of June 2021, he has acted in more than 70 Malayalam films. Biju Kuttan is born in North Paravur, Ernakulam . He completed most of his schoolin ...

Sachin Warrier Sachin Warrier is an Indian playback singer and composer in the Malayalam film industry from Kerala. He became notable with the song "''Muthuchippi Poloru''" from the film ''Thattathin Marayathu''. He made his debut with the movie ''Malarvaadi A ...

composed the music for the film. It was released on 19 July 2019.

Plot

Shibu (Karthik Ramakrishnan) is a young guy from a small town who is an aspiring film maker. He tries hard to achieve his dreams, but gets rejected by all. Then he hears about a film institute and he manages to convince his family to let him join the institute. There, instead of learning about cinema, he gets confused. He quits the film institute and tries to make a zero budget film casting his brother in law as the hero and chooses supporting actors from random people he meets. But the shoot goes wrong and turns into chaos and an actor is accidentally killed by Shibu. Then he desperately tries to cover up the murder. Meanwhile, he meets with a girl named Kalyani (

) in a match-making meet and how their aspirations brings them together forms the rest of the story.

Production

In 2018, Arjun and Gokul, who debuted with the movie

32aam Adhyayam 23aam Vaakyam ''32aam Adhyayam 23aam Vaakyam'' (English: 32nd Chapter 23rd Verse) is a 2015 Indian Malayalam mystery- thriller film, starring Govind Padmasoorya, Miya, and Lal. It was co-written and co-directed by Arjun Prabhakaran and Gokul Ramakrishnan and ...

is all set to start working on their next project. Titled 'Shibu' The film has music by Sachin Warrier. Sachin wrote about it, "‘Omal Kanmani’ composed by Bijibal sir from the 2015 movie ‘32aam Adhyayam 23aam Vaakyam’ is a song that's close to heart among the ones I’ve sung so far. The directors of the movie, Arjun and Gokul came to me to narrate a story recently, and I had a lot of fun listening to it. I believe it'll turn out to be an interesting film. Super happy to associate with Arjun and Gokul, as a composer in their second film" says Sachin Warrier. Arun Gopi director of

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starer movie

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released first look poster of the film in April 2019. Actor

released trailer of the film in June 2019.

Cast

* Karthik Ramakrishnan as Shibu *

as Kalyani *

as Dr. Thomas *

as Prahladhan * Lukman Lukku as Habeeb *

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as Producer * Unni Rajan P Dev as Antappan *Sneha as Kalyanis friend * Aiswarya Padmakumar as Suhara * Rajesh Sharma as Satheesh Kupleri *Kannan Sagar as Bhuvanan *Badra as Shibu's Mom *Kshama Krishnan as Sheeba *Sharan as Siddique *Sundarpandiyan as Police Officer *

Kochu Preman K. S. Premkumar (1 June 1955 – 3 December 2022), better known by his stage name Kochu Preman, was an Indian actor who worked in Malayalam cinema, Malayalam film industry. He acted in more than 300 films, mainly in supporting comedy roles, an ...

as Eastman Narayanan *Naseer Samkranthi as Kambikaadu *Abhirami as Sandhya *Gopika as Suhara's Friend *Anagha as Kalyani's Friend *Roslyn as Short film actress *Shyni Sara as Kalyani's mother *Janish Jinu as Kuttan *Jaleel as Jaleel *Ajith as Suhail *Rajesh Paravoor as Attender *Pavithran as Police Constable *Rajesh Panavalli as Marriage Broker *Gokul Ramakrishnan as Cameo appearance in the title song

Soundtrack

Lyrics are written by

Manu Manjith Manu Manjith is an Indian lyricist and poet in Malayalam language. He is also a Homoeopath. He began his film career with the Malayalam film ''Ohm Shanthi Oshaana'' in 2014. He is a frequent collaborator of Shaan Rahman since 2014. Filmography ...

and Vinayak Sasikumar, all music is composed by

and Vignesh Baskaran.

Release

The film was released on 19 July 2019 across 80 screens in Kerala.

Critical Reception

The film received mixed reviews, with 2.5 stars out of 5 from Anandh Vishnu of ''

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'', while Deepika Jayaram in ''

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'' gave it 2 stars out of 5, criticising the story and the actors' performances.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shibu movie 2010s Malayalam-language films Films scored by Sachin Warrier Indian romantic comedy-drama films Indian action comedy-drama films 2019 films 2010s action comedy-drama films 2019 romantic comedy-drama films