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{{Short description|2001 film by Sibi Malayil}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Ishtam
| image = Ishtam.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| director = [[Sibi Malayil]]
| producer = David Kachappally
| writer = [[Kalavoor Ravikumar]]
| narrator =
| starring = [[Dileep]] [[Navya Nair]] [[Nedumudi Venu]] [[Jayasudha]] [[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] [[Sreenivasan]]
| music = [[Mohan Sitara]]
| cinematography = [[Venugopal Madathil|Venugopal]]
| editing = [[L. Bhoominathan]]
| studio =
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2001|10|05}}
| runtime = 158 minutes
| country = India
| language = [[Malayalam]]
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''Ishtam''''' ({{Translation|Love }}) is a 2001 Indian [[Malayalam]]-language [[Romance film|romantic]] [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[Sibi Malayil]] and written by [[Kalavoor Ravikumar]]. It stars [[Dileep]] and [[Navya Nair]] (in her acting debut), with [[Nedumudi Venu]], [[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]], [[Sreenivasan]], and [[Jayasudha]] appearing in supporting roles. The music was composed by [[Mohan Sitara]]. ''Ishtam'' was remade in [[Hindi]] as ''[[Mere Baap Pehle Aap]]'' by [[Priyadarshan]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nowrunning.com/movie/16/malayalam/ishtam/2/review.htm|title = Ishtam Review | Ishtam Malayalam Movie Review by K. T. Thomas|date = March 2002}}</ref>

==Plot==
{{More plot|date=February 2020}}
Pawan, whose mother died twenty four years ago when he was a child, lives with his father Krishnankutty Menon, a rich businessman. His father frequently and hilariously gets in trouble with the police officer Mariamma, mostly due to his best friend, Narayanan. Anjana meets Pavan whom he ragged her and cut her hair for which she left the college. So Anjana plans to take a sweet revenge by making a false call. After all those fun incidents, Anjana meets Pavan and then Pavan regret for his mischief he had done to Anjana and then they both become friends. Anjana lives with an spinster music teacher, Sridevi.At Anjana's friend's marriage, Krishnankutty Menono saw Sridevi and it turns out that Krishnankutty Menon and Sridevi were actually star-crossed lovers when they were young. Pavan, Anjana, Narayanan and Pavan's brother, Vipin plans to reunite them after all these years - and in the process, Pavan and Anjana discover their feelings for each other as well.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
*[[Dileep (actor)|Dileep]] as Pavan K Menon aka Pavi
*[[Navya Nair]] as Anjana Pillai(''Rose''), Pavi's childhood friend
*[[Nedumudi Venu]] as Krishnankutty Menon, father of Pavi and Vipin
*[[Jayasudha]] as Sreedevi Teacher
*[[Sreenivasan]] as Vipin K Menon
*[[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] as Narayanan, friend of Krishnankutty Menon
*[[Balachandra Menon]] as Gokul Das (Anjana Pillai's Father)
*Suma Jayaram as Girija Menon
*[[Jyothirmayi]] as Jyothi
*[[Kalpana (Malayalam actress)|Kalpana]] as Mariamma Thomas
*Arun Ghosh as Jyothi's Husband
*Deepika Mohan as Jyothi's Mother
*Niyas Backer as Babukuttan
*Bindhu Krishna
{{colend}}

== Soundtrack ==
The film's soundtrack contains 8 songs, all composed by [[Mohan Sitara]] and [[Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri]] and sachidanandan puzhankara

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! # !! Title !! Singer(s) !! Raga(s)
|-
| 1
| "Chanchala"
| [[K. S. Chitra]] ||
[[Brindabani Sarang]]
|-
| 2
| "Ishtam Ishtam" ||
| Chorus
|-
| 3
| "Kaliparayum" ||
| Sunil
|-
| 4
| "Kandu Kandu"
| Dhanya || [[Kapi (raga)|Kapi]]
|-
| 5
| "Kandu Kandu"
| [[Dr. K. J. Yesudas]] ||
Kapi
|-
| 6
| "Kanumpol"
| Dr. K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chitra || [[Kalyani (raga)|Kalyani]]
|-
| 7
| "Kanumpol"
| Dr. K. J. Yesudas || Kalyani
|-
| 8
| "Vattathil" ||
| Sunil
|}

==Box office==
The film was commercial success.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.screenindia.com/20020104/rmala.html |author=Unni R. Nair |title=Let down |magazine=[[Screen India]] |date=4 January 2002 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071229023821/http://www.screenindia.com/20020104/rmala.html |archivedate=29 December 2007 }}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0322788|Ishtam}}

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[[Category:2000s Malayalam-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:2001 romantic comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:2001 films]]
[[Category:Malayalam films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Films directed by Sibi Malayil]]
[[Category:Films scored by Mohan Sithara]]
[[Category:2001 comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Indian romantic comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Films shot in Thrissur]]

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Ishtam 2001 Malayalam film - Revision history

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