''Kuberan'' is a 2002 Indian

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-language

comedy drama Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, il ...

film directed by

Sundar Das Sundar Das is an Indian film director in Malayalam movies. He directed more than 10 Malayalam films including ''Sallapam'', Kuberan (2002 film), ''Kuberan'' and Sammanam (1997 film), ''Sammanam''. The Malayalam actress Manju Warrier debuted with ...

and produced by

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under the production company

Revathy Kalamandhir Revathy Kalamandhir is an Indian film production company based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. It was founded in 1993 by producer G. Suresh Kumar. The company is run by Suresh Kumar and his wife actress Menaka. They have produced more than 15 ...

. It stars

Dileep Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan, better known by his stage name Dileep, is an Indian actor, producer, comedian and entrepreneur who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry. He has also acted in Tamil, Hindi, and Kannada films. He has ...

Samyuktha Varma Samyuktha Varma (born 28 November 1979) is a former Indian actress who was active in Malayalam films from 1999 to 2002. She made her debut in 1999 as female lead in the movie '' Veendum Chila Veettukaryangal'' for which she won her first Keral ...

, and

Kalabhavan Mani Kunnisseri Veettil Raman Mani (1 January 1971 – 6 March 2016), better known by his stage name Kalabhavan Mani, was an Indian actor and singer. Mani started his career as a Impersonator, mimicry artist with the Kalabhavan comedy troupe. He had ...

, along with a supporting cast of

Uma Shankari Uma Shankari is an Indian actress who appeared in regional Indian language films. Career In 2006, she appeared in Sakthi Chidambaram's '' Kovai Brothers'' opposite Sibiraj, featuring as Sathyaraj's niece and also featured in ''Thodamaley'' a ...

Harisree Ashokan Harisree Ashokan (born 6 April 1964) is an Indian actor and director who is known for his comedy roles in Malayalam films. Ashokan has acted in more than 200 Malayalam films. He started his career as a mimicry artist in the troupe Harisree and ...

Keerthy Suresh Keerthy Suresh (born 17 October 1992) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil cinema, Tamil, Telugu cinema, Telugu and Malayalam Cinema, Malayalam films. Her film accolades include one National Film Award, five South Indian In ...

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 ...

, and

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 ...

. The film was released during

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2002.

Plot

Siddharthan, an actor, is the guardian of three children from his village. He rents a house posing as a rich man and is visited by his old friend, Ramanujan, who creates chaos. The young heiress, Pooja, is the daughter of the owner of a palace, and has a haunted past. Her husband was a sadist, and she ran away to her native village. Her mother finds out where she is and also comes to the village. Pooja does not want to go with her mother. Hence, she acts like a memory-loss patient and says that their neighbour, Siddharthan, is her husband and his adopted children are their children. Thus, her mother allows Pooja to stay in the village. Pooja's husband finds her and comes to get her back. Pooja tells Siddharthan that she does not want to go with her husband. Siddharthan fights Pooja's husband, and in the end, Gouri's father shoots Pooja's husband and goes to prison. Pooja leaves the house and Siddharthan joins his girlfriend, Gauri.

Cast

as Siddharthan *

as Pooja *

as Ramanujan, Siddharthan's Friend *

as Gauri, Siddharthan's Lover *

as S.I. Thimmayya *

as Theyyunni *

as "Arana" Abdu * Janardhanan as Dr. Vasan * Suresh Krishna as Sanjay, Pooja's Husband *

Mohan Sharma Mohan Sharma is an Indian film and television actor, film producer, director and screenwriter, who works in Cinema of South India, South Indian films. He has produced more than 15 films in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada. He became noted th ...

as Goppannan, Gouri's Father * Baburaj as Giri *

Rizabawa Rizabawa (24 September 1966 – 13 September 2021) was an Indian actor who worked predominately in Malayalam films and television. His breakthrough role was as a villain in the 1990 film '' In Harihar Nagar''. Since then, he acted as villain i ...

as Thampuran, Pooja's Father *Manka Mahesh as Pooja's Mother *Bindu Ramakrishnan as Pooja's Grandmother * Master Vignesh as Siddharth's adopted child *

as Siddharth's adopted child *

Geetha Salam Abdul Salam (9 October 1946 – 19 December 2018) was an Indian actor in Malayalam cinema known by his stage name Geetha Salam, known for '' Malabar Wedding'', '' Jalolsavam'' (2004) and '' Mylanchi Monchulla Veedu'' (2014). He lived in Krishna ...

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack contains six songs, all composed by music director

Mohan Sithara Mohan Sithara (born 30 May 1959) is an Indian music composer. He received the Kerala State Film Award for the Best Music Director (2009) for the songs in Priyanandan's ''Soofi Paranja Kadha''. Since 1986 he has been an active musician in the Mal ...

, Background score by

Sharreth Sujith Vasudevan I (born 3 October 1969), professionally credited as Sharreth, is an Indian music director and singer. He predominantly composes film scores and songs for Malayalam films, but has also composed many songs for the Tamil, Telugu an ...

and with lyrics written by

Gireesh Puthenchery Girish Puthenchery was a noted Malayalam lyricist, poet, scriptwriter and screenwriter, esteemed for his pivotal role as a lyricist in Malayalam cinema. He was often hailed as the aristocratic lyricist of Malayalam and was admired for his uniqu ...

Reception

A critic from ''

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'' wrote that "''Kuberan'' is old wine in a new bottle". A critic from ''

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'' praised the performances of the cast, the music and the scriptwriting."Kuberan"
''

''. Retrieved 5 April 2011.

Box office

The film was a commercial success.

Accolades

;

Kerala Film Critics Association Awards The Kerala Film Critics Association Awards are presented annually by the Kerala Film Critics Association to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Malayalam language film industry of India. The awards were instit ...

* Best Make-up Artsit – Jayachandran * Best Costume Design -

Indrans Jayan Indrans Jayan is an Indian film costume designer working predominantly in Malayalam films. He won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design in 57th National Film Awards, 2009 (58th National Film Awards, Kutty Srank) and 58th National Film Aw ...

References

External links

* 2000s Malayalam-language films 2002 comedy-drama films 2002 films Indian comedy-drama films Films shot in Ooty Films scored by Mohan Sithara Films directed by Sundar Das {{2000s-Malayalam-film-stub