''Anchil Oral Arjunan'' is a 2007 Indian Malayalam-language

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directed by

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and starring

Jayaram Jayaram Subramaniam, (born 10 December 1965) known mononymously as Jayaram, is an Indian actor who predominantly appears in Malayalam cinema, Malayalam,Tamil cinema, Tamil films, along with a few Telugu cinema, Telugu films. He is also a chend ...

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, Samvrutha,

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, Siddique and

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. The film was a box office failure.

Plot

Sudheendran "Sudhi" works as a class tutor and theatrical actor and Kovilakam Sreedharan is his benefactor. Sudhi falls in love with Pavithra. When Sudhi reconnects with his childhood friend Sathi, Pavithra gets mad at Sudhi. More problems ensue after his cousins Vijayan and Vinayan want to take his family house. How Sudhi solves his problems forms the rest of the plot.

Cast

as Sudheendran a.k.a. Sudhi *

as Pavithra * Samvrutha as Sathi *

as Paul *

as Kovilakam Sreedharan *

as Vinayan * Siddique as Vijayan *

as Padmanabhan * Kalpana as Shantha *

Kaviyoor Ponnamma Kaviyoor Ponnamma is an Indian actress who appears in Malayalam films and television. She began her career performing in theatre dramas before foraying into cinema. She has also acted in TV serials and commercials and has playback singing cre ...

as Sudheendran's mother *

K. P. A. C. Lalitha Maheshwari Amma, better known by her stage name K. P. A. C. Lalitha, was an Indian film and stage actress who worked primarily in Malyalam. She started her acting career with K. P. A. C., a theatre collective in Kayamkulam, Kerala. In a caree ...

as Vijayan's mother

Release and reception

The film was ready for release in January 2007. A critic from ''

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'' opined that "More bad news for Jayaram fans. His films are getting from bad to worse. They have the same hackneyed storyline, scenes and look the same with nothing new in it. And to put it mildly, Jayaram should stop getting saddled with such asinine and dumb roles". C. Parashuram from ''Webindia 123'' wrote that ""Anchil Oraal Arjunan" is strictly for hardcore Jayaram fans". A critic from ''Indiaglitz'' called the film absorbing and not entertaining. Unni Nair of ''Nowrunning'' gave a mixed review and wrote that "But the subject chosen doesn't seem to have anything new and is like old wine in a new bottle.".

References

External links

* {{IMDb title Indian family films