''Ayalathe Adheham'' () is a 1992 Indian

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-language family

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film directed by Rajasenan and written by Sasidharan Arattuvazhi. It stars

Jayaram Jayaram Subramaniam, (born 10 December 1965), is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema, in addition to Tamil cinema, Tamil, Telugu cinema, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Sanskrit, and Bhojpuri language films. He is also a chenda ...

, Gautami, Siddique, Vaishnavi,

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, and

Thilakan Palappurathu Keshavan Surendranatha Thilakan (15 July 1935 – 24 September 2012) was an Indian film and stage actor who appeared in over 200 Malayalam films. Thilakan was known for his elaborate method acting, realistic and spontaneous appeara ...

. The music for songs was composed by Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath, while the lyrics were written by Mohan Sithara.

Plot

The story is about a college lecturer Premachandran, who faces troubles when his wife Sulochana develops an inferiority complex about their family life, after seeing their happily married neighbours Rajeevan and Radhika. Rajeevan is a medical representative and working for a pharmaceutical company. Rajeevan's personality, confidence and his charisma impresses Sulochana and she wishes her husband was like Rajeevan. Sulochana keeps on comparing Rajeevan with her husband to such an extent that it makes Premachandran irritated. Premachandran tries to mend his behaviour and tries his best to express his love for Sulochana but fails in his attempts. Rajeevan is revealed to be a fraudster who has an extra marital relationship with one of their neighbours and everything adorable about his family life was a cover-up. Sulochana realizes her husband's sincere love towards her.

Cast

as Premachandran / Preman, Malayalam College Lecturer * Gautami as Sulochana, Premachandran's Wife * Siddique as Rajeevan, medical representative * Vaishnavi as Radhika, Rajeevan's Wife *

as Premachandran's Mother *

as Sivan Pillai, Bank Manager *

Jagathy Sreekumar Sreekumar Achary (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 deca ...

as Chandykkunju / Chandy, Video Shop Owner and Residence Association Secretary * Krishna Prasad as Sudheendran, Sulochana's Brother *

Santhakumari Santha Kumari (born Vellaala Subbamma; 17 May 1920 – 16 January 2006) was an Indian musical artist and actress. She was married to the Telugu film director and producer P. Pullayya. Early years Vellaala Subbamma was born in Proddatur tow ...

as Rajeevan's Mother * Babu Namboothiri as David Gomez, Premachandran's Colleague * Ramyasree as Gomathy, Sivan Pillai's Wife * Maniyanpilla Raju as Achuthan Singh *

Indrans K. Surendran (born 16 March 1956), better known by his stage name Indrans, is an Indian actor and former costume designer, who appears in Malayalam films. He started his film career as a costume designer and actor in 1981 and got a breakthrough ...

as Abu, Chandikkunju's Assistant *

Alummoodan Dominic Alummoodu, known by his stage name Alummoodan (15 March 1933 3 May 1992) was an Indian actor who worked in Malayalam films. He acted in more than 100 films and mainly did comedy roles. Background Alummoodan was born as Dominic to Rosa ...

as Rajeevan's Father * Mamukkoya as Kuttappan *

Mala Aravindan Mala Aravindan (15 January 1939 – 28 January 2015) was an Indian actor. He was best known for his work as a comedian and character artist in Malayalam films. He has acted in over 500 films. Early life Aravindan was born at Vadavucode in th ...

as Selvam *

Jose Pellissery Jose Pellissery (1950 – 5 December 2004) was an Indian film and theatre actor. Biography As an actor in Malayalam cinema, he played supporting roles in about 100 films. His 15-year film career included roles in such movies as '' Aadhaaram' ...

as Joseph * Kumarakom Reghunath as SI Firoz * Vishnuprakash as Dr. Perera * Thesni Khan

Box office

The film was commercial success. It was well received by family audiences.

References

External links

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''Ayalathe Adheham''
at the Malayalam Movie Database 1990s Malayalam-language films Films scored by Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath Indian comedy-drama films Films directed by Rajasenan 1992 comedy-drama films 1992 films {{1990s-Malayalam-film-stub