''Ring Master'' is a

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Indian

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-language

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written and directed by Rafi, starring

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in the role of an

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in circus.

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, and

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play the other characters. The film was released on 12 April 2014 to positive response. The film was a commercial success at the box office.

Plot

The movie starts with Prince, who is working as dog trainer in a dog clinic owned by his friend Dr. Muthu, and Peter is filming a documentary of the clinic. His life changes when an affluent rich lady Elizabeth and her female dog Lisa enters his life. Elizabeth appoints Prince as a caretaker for her dogs on the condition that Lisa, one of her pet should never get pregnant. However, Prince fails at the dire moment, when Toby, the guide dog of visually challenged Karthika mates with Lisa. Things get worse, when Lisa delivers four puppies, but unfortunately she dies in labor, along with three of her kids. Prince names the lone puppy 'Diana', whom he raises with utmost care. Despite a rough start, Prince and Karthika gets along and become close friends. Diana becomes famous after she acts in a movie which marks Peter's directional debut, which eventually becomes a superhit. Later on she does a movie with the actress Diana who had betrayed Prince earlier. A heartbroken Prince once remembers all about his sweet past with the then student Diana, whose real name was Sarasamma. It was upon her father's request that Prince came up with the new name for his prospective sweetheart. As Diana grew to be talented and a beautiful woman, Prince strived to the fullest to bring her to the silver screen. As fame, followed by a sense of ungratefulness begins to rack in, Diana publicly disowned Prince, which made him an object of heavy ridicule in front of his people. It was that humiliation which pitted Prince to go all out against his former love interest. Prince, with a huge support of his friends, including Karthika, survives every plot the actress Diana sets against the canine Diana and her master. In the meantime, Elizabeth learns that her dog Lisa was canine Diana's mother, and sues Prince for title of his dog's ownership. At last, Prince wins the case for keeping the canine Diana, on the grounds of his boundless love towards his dog, while the actress Diana learns the lesson that fame is not everything, and even a dog can outfame a human, when the time is right. In the aftermath that follows, Peter gets married, Dr. Muthu opens a hospital in his own name, and most significantly, Karthika undergoes a successful eye surgery and starts a new life with her guardian angel Prince.

Cast

as Prince, a dog trainer at his friend Dr. Muthu's veterinary clinic and owner of the dog Diana *

as Karthika (Karthu), blind lady later becomes the Prince's girlfriend and wife and owner of dog Tobey *

as Sarasamma a.k.a. Diana, Prince's ex-girlfriend and Lady superstar in the film industry *

as Prince's father *

as Dr. Muthu, a veterinary doctor and Prince's friend *

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as Peter, an aspiring filmmaker * Rafi as Director Ravishankar * Abu Salim as Circle Inspector Pramod *

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as Diana's father * Ranjini as Elizabeth *

as Adv. Shravan, Prince's lawyer * Sai Kumar as Varghese Ummen / Elizabeth's husband. *

as Sathyavel/Bachan Kunju * Kalabhavan Haneefa as Narayanan * Anand as Raju, husband of Karthika's eldest sister *

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as Ajay, Production controller *

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as Mini / Karthika's sister, Raju's wife *

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as Sathyavel's wife * Indulekha as Interviewer * Ancy as Lady at the animal hospital *

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as Kishore Kumar * Dinesh Panikker as Interviewer *

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as Petcare Driver * Molly Kannamaly as Paruvamma * Eloor George as George * Basil as Diana's bodyguard *

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as Chacko *

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as Cultural Minister *

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as Stunt Master *

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as Opponent Leader * Janardhanan as Chief Minister *

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as Nandini,Wife of Kishore Kumar * Lakshmipriya as Advocate * Manjusha Sajish as Nurse *

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as Judge *

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as Adv. Anil *

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as Doctor * Augustina Aju as Peter's wife (Cameo) * Vasanthi

Production

In September 2013 it was reported that

's next comedy film would be ''Ring Master'' and that it would be the inaugural venture of Rafi as an independent director after separating from Rafi-Mecartin duo. Dileep was chosen to play the lead role of an animal trainer in the film. He underwent a special training for the same and was trained by animal experts from across the country. Miya was initially cast for one of the lead female role (which was actually done by Keerthy), but she dropped out of the project due to date clashes with her debut Tamil film and was later replaced by Keerthi Suresh. Keerthi essayed the role of a visually challenged girl in the film.

was signed for another lead female role and she stated "My character Diana has negative shades but she is an interesting character".

Box office

''Ring Master'' was a commercial success. In

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, the film earned a distributor's share around 6 – 7

crore A crore (; abbreviated cr) denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system. It is written as 1,00,00,000 with the local 2,2,3 style of digit group separators (one lakh is eq ...

in 50 days run. The film collected 15,159 from UK box office.

References

External links

* {{Rafi Mecartin 2014 films 2010s Malayalam-language films Films scored by Gopi Sundar