''Millennium Stars'' is a 2000 Indian

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

-language drama film directed by

Jayaraj Jayarajan Rajasekharan Nair, professionally credited as Jayaraj (born 31 May 1960), is an Indian filmmaker, who predominantly works in the Malayalam cinema, Malayalam film industry. He has won many awards, including Crystal Bear at the Berli ...

. It stars

Suresh Gopi Suresh Gopi (born 26 June 1958) is an Indian actor, playback singer, television presenter and politician who is currently serving as the Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Minister of Tourism since June 2024. He was ele ...

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 ...

Biju Menon Biju Menon (born 9 September 1967) is an Indian actor who predominantly appears in Malayalam films, and also has a few Tamil, Telugu and Kannada film credits. He made his debut in the 1994 Malayalam film ''Puthran''. In a career spanning over ...

and Abhirami in the lead roles. The soundtrack of the film was composed by

Vidyasagar Vidyasagar or Vidya Sagar may refer to: People *Acharya Vidyasagar (born 1946), prominent Digambar Jain Acharya (1946-) *Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891), Bengali scholar *Vidyasagar (composer) (born 1963), South Indian music director * C ...

. The movie was also the first Malayalam movie to be released in this millennium.

won the Asianet Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for this film. Later dubbed into Tamil and released as ''Sivasankar''.

Plot

When they were children, Shiva and Shankar went to

Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 ...

in search of a living. Circumstances put them in jail, where they meet a bully named Karunan. They escape from jail. Several years later, Shankar and Shiva dream of becoming singers. Karunan is still active as a criminal. Through their hard work, the Shiva-Shankar duo become successful singers and start being called "Millennium Stars". Then the villain enters and tries to separate the two. Karunan convinces them not to separate.

Cast

Soundtrack

The film's music was composed by

, with Malayalam lyrics 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 ...

, Hindi lyrics by Tahir Faraz and English lyrics by Recardo Barrantes. Though the film failed at the box-office, the soundtrack is considered as one of Vidyasagar's career bests.

Box office

This film was released with huge expectations but was a box office failure as the producer lost .

References

External links

* 2000s Malayalam-language films 2000 films Films scored by Vidyasagar (composer) Indian musical films Films shot in Mumbai 2000 musical films {{musical-film-stub