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{{Infobox film
| name           = Mannadiar Penninu Chenkotta Checkan
| image          = 
| caption        = 
| director       = {{ubl|[[Anil (director)|P. Anil]]|[[Babu Narayanan]]}}
| producer       = 
| writer         = {{ubl|A. K. Sajan|A. K .Santhosh}}
| screenplay     = {{ubl|A. K. Sajan|A. K. Santhosh}}
| starring       = {{ubl|[[Mukesh (actor)|Mukesh]]|[[Kanaka (actress)|Kanaka]]|[[Jagathy Sreekumar]]|[[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]]}}
| music          = [[Raveendran]]
| cinematography = [[Vipin Mohan]]
| editing        = P. C. Mohanan
| studio         = Rajsagar Films
| distributor    = Rajsagar Films
| released       = {{Film date|1997|01|17|df=yes}}
| country        = India
| language       = Malayalam
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}

'''''Mannadiar Penninu Chenkotta Checkan''''' is a [[List of Malayalam films of 1997|1997]] Indian [[Malayalam cinema|Malayalam]]-language film, directed by [[Anil (director)|P. Anil]] and [[Babu Narayanan]]. The film stars [[Mukesh (actor)|Mukesh]], [[Kanaka (actress)|Kanaka]], [[Jagathy Sreekumar]] and [[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] in the lead roles. The film has musical score by [[Raveendran]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.malayalachalachithram.com/movie.php?i=3053|title=Mannaadiyaar Penninu Chenkotta Chekkan|accessdate=2014-10-27|publisher=www.malayalachalachithram.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://malayalasangeetham.info/m.php?4225|title=Mannaadiyaar Penninu Chenkotta Chekkan|accessdate=2014-10-27|publisher=malayalasangeetham.info}}</ref>

==Plot==
Aarcha is the young matriarch of Mannadiar family. She hates men and her 4 brothers are her body guards. She has made them divorce their wives for personal whim's. Because of pampered life she considered everyone whom she hates as lesser beings than her. In such a depraved egoistic life she played with Sethuraman's during her college. Through an unexpected turn of events Sethuraman gets into her family as their family lawyer and attempts to change the power dynamics and marry Aarcha, because he once loved her open-heartedly.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
*[[Mukesh (actor)|Mukesh]] as Adv. Chenkotta Sethuraman
*[[Kanaka (actress)|Kanaka]] as Aarcha / Sundari Sethuraman
*[[Jagathy Sreekumar]] as Eswaran Vakkeel
*[[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] as Gajendra Mannadiar
*[[Cochin Haneefa]] as Veerendra Mannadiar
*[[Subair]] as Narendra Mannadiar
*[[Baiju Santhosh|Baiju]] as Rajendra Mannadiar
*[[Kalabhavan Mani]] as Madhavan
*[[Augustine (actor)|Augustine]] Velayudhan, S.I. Ayyappan's nephew
*[[C. I. Paul]] as S.I. Ayyappan
*[[Salim Kumar]] as Marmmaadi
*[[Kalpana (Malayalam actress)|Kalpana]] as Chamba
*[[KPAC Lalitha]] as Pushpavalli
*[[Zeenath]] as Leelamani
*[[Bindu Panicker]] as Thilothoma
* [[Anusha (actress)|Anusha]] as Sethuraman's sister
*[[Harishree Ashokan]] as Aromal
*[[Bobby Kottarakkara]] as Komalan
*[[Meghanathan]] as Natesan
*Salu Koottanad
*[[Kottayam Nazeer]] 
*[[T. P. Madhavan]] as Vakeel
*[[Adoor Bhavani]] as Vayattatti
*[[Meena Ganesh]] as Vayattati's daughter
{{colend}}

==Soundtrack==
The music was composed by [[Raveendran]] and the lyrics were written by [[P. K. Gopi]].

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! No. !! Song !! Singers !! Lyrics !! Length (m:ss)
|-
| 1 || "Ankam Jayiche" || Mano || [[P. K. Gopi]] || 
|-
| 2 || "Nercha Kunkuma" || [[G. Venugopal]], Chorus, [[Krishnachandran]] || P. K. Gopi || 
|-
| 3 || "Poli Poliye" (Perumathudi Kotti Varunne) || [[Pradip Somasundaran]] ||P. K. Gopi || 
|}

==Reception==
A critic from ''[[Deccan Herald]]'' wrote that "Yet another shrew to be tamed, yet another slapstick comedy. That sums up Anil Babus film".<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 April 1999 |title=Reviews |url=http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/art.nsf/(docid)/384572F6661CE28265256941003DC8D3 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322152101/http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/art.nsf/(docid)/384572F6661CE28265256941003DC8D3 |archive-date=22 March 2012 |access-date=12 January 2022 |website=[[Deccan Herald]]}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0273782|Mannadiar Penninu Chenkotta Checkan}}

[[Category:1997 films]]
[[Category:Indian comedy films]]
[[Category:1997 Malayalam-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Babu Narayanan]]

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