''Pandippada'' () is a 2005 Indian

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bilingual

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written and directed by Rafi Mecartin. The film 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 ...

in the lead role while

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Prakash Raj Prakash Raj (born Prakash Rai; 26 March 1965) is an Indian actor, film director, producer, television presenter, and politician. Known for his works in Telugu language, Telugu, Tamil language, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English language, Engl ...

, Rajan P. Dev,

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 ...

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, and

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play supporting roles. The film was produced by

and Anoop under the company Graand Production. The film was commercially successful at box office, it was one of the highest-grossing film in 2005 and developed a

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following. The film released on 4 July 2005. The story revolves around Bhuvana Chandran (Dileep), a struggling entrepreneur in a lot of debt, who gets involved in a land conflict between two powerful men related by marriage in Tamil Nadu, Pandi Durai (Prakash Raj) and Karuppayya Swami (Rajan P. Dev). Meanwhile, he lands himself as a close confidante of Durai and falls in a love triangle inspired from ''

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''.

Plot

Pandi Durai and his brother-in-law Karuppayya Swami are two rival landlords, illiterate yet equally feared by the villagers for their brutalities. Bhuvanachandran is an unsuccessful entrepreneur who gets a piece of land in the same village. He has a lot of debts, and in order to clear them, he has to sell the land. However, Pandi and Karuppayya have not let any owner of the land sell it, Bhuvan being the latest owner to land into trouble. Bhuvan, not knowing the situation stemming from the feud, comes to this village to check the possibilities of selling the land. Then he sees help from his best friend Bhasi, who lived there. Bhasi takes him to Pandi, whom he works as a member, and Bhuvan joins Pandi's group. Later, Karuppayya's beautiful, literate, well-mannered daughter Meena falls in love with Bhuvan. However, Pandi also wants to marry Meena, and this makes Pandi and Bhuvan enemies. Pandi tries to kill Bhuvan, but the latter escapes. Karuppayya finds Bhuvan to be a better suitor than Pandi and fixes the marriage of Meena and Bhuvan. Pandi also fixes his marriage with Meena on the same date. In the chaos that follows, Bhuvan confronts Pandi in a duel and finally gives a gun to Pandi and asks him to shoot Bhuvan if he cannot see him as a brother. Pandi realizes his mistakes, forgives them both, and nods approval for their marriage.

Cast

as Bhuvanachandran (Bhuvan) *

as Pandi Durai, Karuppayya's brother-in-law * Harisree Asokan as Bhasi, Bhuvan's best friend *

as Umakanthan, Bhuvan's best friend *

as Meena, Karuppayya's daughter and Bhuvan's love interest *

as Ummachan * Rajan P. Dev as Karuppayya Swami (Kuruppayya), Meena's father and Pandi Durai's brother-law * Ambika as Mallika, Karuppayya's wife and Pandi Durai's sister *

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as Pandi Durai's and Mallika's Mother *

as Veeramani * Sabu Varghese as Kaali, Pandi Durai's henchman *

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as Chandran, Bhuvanachandran's father *

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as Omana, Bhuvanachandran's mother * Subbalakshmi as Meena's grandmother *

Kalabhavan Haneef Kalabhavan Haneef (1959 or 1960 – 9 November 2023) was an Indian actor and Impressionist (entertainment), impressionist in Malayalam cinema. He made his debut with the film ''Cheppukilukkana Changathi'' (1991). Career Haneef started imper ...

as Chimbu * Neena Kurup as Suma, Bhuvanachandran's sister * Kollam Ajith as Murugan, Karuppayya Swami's henchman *

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as Raghavan *

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as Broker *

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as Gounder *

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as Police Officer * Nandu Poduval as Tattoo Artist *

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as Peacock Man in the function (uncredited role)

Reception

The film was commercially successful in the box office and ran more than 100 days in theaters.

Soundtrack

The music was composed by

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, with lyrics written by Chittoor Gopi, R. K. Damodaran, I. S. Kundoor, Nadirsha and Santhosh Varma.

References

External links

* {{Rafi Mecartin 2000s Malayalam-language films 2005 romantic comedy films 2005 films Malayalam films remade in other languages Films scored by Suresh Peters Films produced by Dileep Films shot in Tamil Nadu Indian romantic comedy films Films directed by Rafi–Mecartin