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film directed by Kaladharan and produced by Balagopalan Thampi. The film starred Sreenivasan, Rekha, Sukumari,

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, Vijayaraghavan, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Jagadish and Kumbalathu Padmakumar. The film's musical scored by Johnson.

Plot

Peethambaran is an educated man who is involved in the problems of his village. He does not look after his family. He is both partially fooled by the villagers and his friends for their own good. While doing charity, he meets Indu. Later, he contests in local elections by compulsion of his friends, in which he loses. He also loses his property deeds to a friend who cheated. Meanwhile, Indu's family proposes a boy from their family to Peethambaran's sister. They also proposed to marry Indu to Peethambaran as they belong to an aristocratic family, though now in poor financial conditions. He gets married. In the end, he tries to change for Indu and denies helping his friend Jacob, whose sister was cheated, to avenge an act of Peethambaran and friends to shut down a ration shop. However, Indu, as a working woman, wants him not to sacrifice his identify while not keeping her waiting forever for him.

Cast

* Sreenivasan as Peethambaran * Rekha as Indu * Jagadish as Jacob *

as Uthaman Pillai *

as Freddy *

as Peethambaran's mother * Nedumudi Venu as Kumaran * Sukumari as Jacob's Mother * Sankaradi as Achuthan Nair *James as Devan * Krishnankutty Nair as Ganeshan, Indu's Father *Kumbalathu Padmakumar as Postman * Beena Antony as Sandhya * Bobby Kottarakkara as Dhamu aka Madantha * Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Avarachan * Kothuku Nanappan as Harindran, Peethambaran's uncle * Poojappura Ravi as Police Sub Inspector Sathyan * Vijayaraghavan as Sugunan * T. P. Madhavan *Adinad Sasi as Shanthappan * Sandra Thomas *Sabnam

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Johnson and the lyrics were written by Bichu Thirumala.

References

External links

* 1991 films 1990s Malayalam-language films Films directed by Kaladharan {{1990s-Malayalam-film-stub