''Sunday Holiday'' is a 2017 Indian

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film written and directed by

Jis Joy Jis Joy is an Indian dubbing artist, film writer, director, and lyricist who works in the Malayalam film industry. He made his directorial debut with the Malayalam film ''Bicycle Thieves''. Career Jis Joy started his film career as a dubbin ...

. The film features an

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led by Asif Ali,

Sreenivasan Sreenivasan (born 6 April 1956) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, dubbing artist and producer who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. Sreenivasan has starred in over 225 films. Sreenivasan wrote the screenplays of films such as ...

, Lal Jose,

Aparna Balamurali Aparna Balamurali (born 11 September 1995) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Malayalam films along with a few Tamil films. She is known for her roles in ''Maheshinte Prathikaaram'' (2016), '' Sunday Holiday'' (2017) and '' Soorarai P ...

, Asha Sarath, Dharmajan Bolgatty, Siddique,

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, Alphy Panjikkaaran and Alencier Ley Lopez. It was produced by Maqtro Pictures. The music was composed by

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. The film was released on 14 July 2017, and received positive reviews from critics.

Plot

The film is about a cinema tale, narrated by Unni Mukundan to a famous director David Paul. Unni is a college professor but he dreams to become a scriptwriter in films. Unni first gets rejected quite harshly, but then David regrets his actions and calls him back, asking for him to narrate the story. Unni narrates the story of Amal from

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. Amal's love life with Sithara met with an unexpected ending as she accepted a marriage proposal. He decides to go to

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for a job so that he can stay away from his past. He shares a house with V. P. Vipeesh

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Rahul, Vinu and Narayanankutty aka Nakkutty. The movie shows the things that happen in Amal's life during that phase where he meets Anu a medical student and eventually falls in love with her. Anu reciprocates his feelings as she is saved by Amal when a person tries to

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her. They decide to get married leaving Sithara fuming in jealousy. The director loves the story and accepts to make the film. The climax shows that Unni was narrating his own life story.

Cast

* Asif Ali as Amal *

as Anu *

as Unni Mukundan * Lal Jose as David Paul, film director * Siddique as Narayanankutty Varavelil/ Nakkutty * Asha Sarath as Dr. Sreedhanya * Dharmajan Bolgatty as Rahul / V. P. Vipeesh * Alencier as Sudhakaran / Amal's father *Alphy Panjikaran as Amal's sister * Shruthi Ramachandran as Sithara *

as J. K. *

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as Vinu *

Sudheer Karamana Sudheer Karamana (born 24 May 1971) is an Indian actor who appears mainly in Malayalam cinema. He is the son of veteran actor Karamana Janardanan Nair. Personal life He is the eldest son to actor Karamana Janardanan Nair and Jaya, at Karamana ...

as Benny *

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as Benny's mother *Preetha Pradeep as Benny's Wife *

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as Unni's father *

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as Church Visitor *

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as Astrologer *

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as S.I. Shafeeque K. V. * Vinaya Prasad as Narayanankutty's wife * V. K. Sreeraman as Abdul Salam Hajiyar *Ann Benjamin as Haseena, Hajiyar's daughter / Anu's friend *

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as Shilpa *

Shivaji Guruvayoor Shivaji Guruvayoor (born 28 May 1961) is an Indian actor who works in Malayalam cinema. He started his film career with the film ''Arabikkatha''.He is known for his negative roles and character roles. Personal life He is married to Lilly and ...

as Lonappan *Aliyar as Himself, dubbing artist *Athira Patel as Unni's Daughter *Nandana Varma as Unni's Daughter *Vidhya Vijayakumar as Amrita *Fr. Bobby Jose Kattikad as Himself * Nasser Latif as Sithara's uncle *Praveen Parameswar as Ad Film Director *Remya Panickar as Ruby *Jis Joy as a man in bus (cameo appearance)

Soundtrack

Release

''Sunday Holiday'' released in India on 14 July 2017 in 110 theatres across Kerala.

Critical reception

Times Of India reviewer Deepa Soman rated it 3/5 and stated:'Sunday Holiday is a perceptive portrait of a film and that makes it quite unpretentious and feel-good too, which makes it worth your time'.

Box office

The film was declared as a super hit, grossing 20.5 crore from the box office with a budget of 3 crore '' INR''.

References

External links

* * {{facebook, sundayholidaymovie 2010s Malayalam-language films Films set in Kerala Films shot in Thalassery Films directed by Jis Joy