''Pachamarathanalil'' is a 2008 Indian film produced by Revathy Kalamandhir, written and directed by debutant

Leo Thaddeus Leo Thaddeus, (born 15 August 1971) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Malayalam cinema. Career Leo Thaddeus is known for Pachamarathanalil(2008), Payyans(2011), Oru Cinemakkaran(2017), Lonappante Mamodeesa(2019) and P ...

. It stars

Sreenivasan Sreenivasan (born 6 April 1956) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, dubbing artist and producer who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. Sreenivasan has starred in over 225 films. Sreenivasan wrote the screenplays of films such a ...

and

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in the lead roles with

Lalu Alex Lalu Alex is an Indian film actor who works in Malayalam and Tamil films. In a career spanning four decades, Lalu Alex has acted in over 250 films and is known for his character roles, comic roles and antagonistic roles in the Malayalam film in ...

, Lal and

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in other pivotal roles. The film's score and soundtrack is written by composer,

Alphons Joseph Alphons Joseph is an Indian music director and playback singer who works in Malayalam film industry. He debuted with 2003 movie ''Vellithira (2003 film), Vellithira''. Alphons is also noted for singing "Aaromale" from the film ''Vinnaithaandi V ...

Plot

'Pachamarathanalil' tells the story of Sachidanandan alias Sachi. He is a well known cartoonist who is much popular as the creator of Thumpi, a very popular cartoon character in a children's magazine Sachi's wife Anu, a government employee is much obsessed with their 7-year-old daughter Sneha's studies. They lead a happy family life with Sneha, who is the cynosure of all eyes and attracts attention wherever she goes and inspires the creation of the cartoon character Thumpi. The story begins to get hotter when an Advertisement film maker happens to notice Sneha and invites her to cast in his new advertisement film which is to be shot in

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. Sneha seems enjoying and easy going like a professional actress in the entire sets. After some days, the shoot is packed up for a shift to

Pollachi Pollachi is a town and municipality in Coimbatore district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the administrative headquarters of Pollachi taluk. It is situated near the center of the South Indian Peninsula, surrounded by Western Gha ...

. During the trip, Sachi gets shocked to find that Sneha is missing in the bus and he becomes frantic. He could not even imagine what will happen if Anu happens to know the news. The drama at the highways takes a curious turn when CI Venkiti reaches the scene to investigate the case. Suddenly, a twist occurs which turns out that Sneha is not the daughter of Sachi. The film goes on to tell what happened to Sneha and who actually Sneha is. It was later revealed that Ali was the father of Sneha. Ali was unjustly accused and imprisoned for a bomb blast in

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and Sneha's mother died in childbirth and Sachi had found Sneha when Ali was caught by the police. Back in the present, Ali allows Sachi and Anu to look after Sneha since they've cared for her throughout her life as he is led to the back of the police van.

Cast

as Sachidanandan *

as Anu *

as C.I. Venkatachala Iyer * Lal as Mohammed Ali *

as Alfie *

Suraj Venjaramoodu Suraj Vasudevan (born 30 June 1976), professionally credited as Suraj Venjaramoodu, is an Indian actor, comedian, impressionist, and television presenter, who appears in Malayalam films, television and stage plays. He has acted in more than ...

as Jose *

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as Lohi *

Sukumari Sukumari Amma (6 October 1940 – 26 March 2013) was an Indian actress best known for her works in Malayalam and Tamil films. In a career spanning more than five decades, She has appeared in more than 2500 films predominantly in Malayalam, T ...

as Nun *

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Production

Majority of the movie was shot in and around

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and

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References

External links

* *https://www.rediff.com/amp/movies/2008/may/12ssp.htm 2008 films 2000s Malayalam-language films Films scored by Alphons Joseph {{2000s-Malayalam-film-stub