''Ithiri Poove Chuvannapoove'' is a 1984 Indian

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-language film, directed by

Bharathan Bharathan Parameshwara Menon Palissery (14 November 1946 – 30 July 1998) Known mononymously Bharathan was an Indian people, Indian film maker, artist, and art director. Bharathan is noted for being the founder of a new school of film ma ...

, with story written by

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and produced by

P. V. Gangadharan Parayarukandi Vettath Gangadharan (1943 – 13 October 2023) was an Indian film producer and businessman from Kerala. He produced 22 Malayalam films under his production company Grihalakshmi Productions. As a producer, he won two National Film ...

. The film stars

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Mammootty Muhammad Kutty Panaparambil Ismail (born 7 September 1951), known mononymously by the hypocorism Mammootty (), is an Indian actor and film producer who works predominantly in Malayalam-language films. He has also appeared in Tamil, Telugu, ...

, Rahman, K R Vijaya, Suresh and

Shobana Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai (born 21 March 1970); known mononymously as Shobana, is an Indian actress and Bharatanatyam dancer, who works predominantly in Malayalam films, in addition to Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English and Kannada films. She is ...

. The film has musical score by Ravindran.

Plot

Balagopalan is Unni's elder brother. Unni is a youth with friends from college. Theirs is a happy family. Balagopalan is a cop and Unni, from influences, becomes a

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. The story follows the dynamics of this relationship and also that of Unni's with his girlfriend.

Cast

as Unni's Father *

as Balagopalan * Rahman as Unni or Unnikrishnan *

K. R. Vijaya Deivanayaki, better known by her stage name K. R. Vijaya, is an Indian actress who has featured in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada films. She started her career in 1963 and has been acting for more than six decades in South Indian cinema. ...

as Meenakshi * Bhagyasri * Suresh as Ravi *

as Subhadra *

Nedumudi Venu Kesavan Venugopal (22 May 1948 – 11 October 2021), better known by his stage name Nedumudi Venu, was an Indian actor and screenwriter from Kerala, who predominantly worked in Malayalam cinema. He acted in more than 500 films, primarily in M ...

as Potty Mannam *

Lalithasree Lalithasree is an Indian actress best known for her work in Malayalam cinema. She has acted in more than 450 films. She acts mainly in supporting roles. She is known for her comedy roles with Jagathy Sreekumar. Personal life Lalithasree was ...

as Ammukutty

Songs

Lyrics by Kavalam Narayana Panikkar. * "Omanathinkal Kidavo" -

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* "Ponpularoli Poovithariya" -

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Lathika Biography Lathika is an Indian playback singer.Her voice held sway over the music charts in the late 1980s-early 1990s in the Malayalam film industry. She has lent her voice mainly for Malayalam and Tamil film songs for over 300 films. Some ...

* "Oru Theruvunaadaka Gaanam" - K. P. Brahmanandan,

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References

External links

* 1984 films 1980s Malayalam-language films {{1980s-Malayalam-film-stub