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{{Infobox film
| name = Manthrikumaran
| image =
| caption =
| director = [[Thulasidas]]
| producer = Dr Rajan Dennis, Ravi P Dennis
| writer = [[Suresh Poduval]]
| screenplay =
| starring =
| music = [[Mohan Sithara]]
| cinematography = [[Saloo George]]
| editing = G Murali
| studio = Dennis Brothers
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1998}}
| country = India
| language = [[Malayalam]]
}}
'''''Manthrikumaran''''' is a 1998 Indian [[Malayalam cinema|Malayalam language film]] directed by [[Thulasidas]], starring [[Mukesh (actor)|Mukesh]] and [[Sangita Madhavan Nair|Sangita]] in the lead roles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.malayalachalachithram.com/movie.php?i=3106|title=Manthrikumaran|accessdate=2014-11-07|publisher=www.malayalachalachithram.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.msidb.org/m.php?1423|title=Manthrikumaran|accessdate=2014-11-07|publisher=malayalasangeetham.info}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/malayalam/malayalam-cinema-and-the-multiverse-of-misogyny-7807136/ | title=Malayalam cinema and the multiverse of misogyny | date=9 March 2022 }}</ref>

==Plot==
{{more plot|date=April 2020}}
Achuthankutty wants to become a bank manager and thinks highly of himself. His father Pothuval brings a marriage proposal for him with Aswathi. She is a nurse and for that reason Achuthankutty insults her without seeing her before her father. He gets a job as peon in the same town where Aswathi works. Achuthankutty's superior is Sunderashan. Sunderashan is fed up with his feminist and arrogant wife Chandrika and they fight. Chandrika and Aswathy are friends and they find out about Achuthankutty.

Chandrika tells Aswathy that she should take revenge on Achuthankutty. They trick him into believing that she is an air hostess. Chandrika makes Achuthankutty fall for the trick and he himself introduces to her as a bank manager and marries her. Aswathi has now thrown her life for revenge and Achuthankutty on a fool's paradise. But soon the lies begin to peel off and Achutankutty goes to extreme ends to meet his primary goal, but later he understands what life and married life should be and comes back to Aswathy after an arduous period of despicable games.

==Cast==
* [[Mukesh (actor)|Mukesh]] as Achuthankutty
* [[Sangita Madhavan Nair|Sangita]] as Aswathy
* [[Jagadeesh]] as Ramanan
* [[Jagathy Sreekumar]] as Sundareshan
* [[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] as Adv. Bahuleyan
* [[K. P. A. C. Lalitha|KPAC Lalitha]] as Chandrika Sundareshan
* Chandni Shaju as Sreekutty
* [[Oduvil Unnikrishnan]] as Pothuval
* [[Bobby Kottarakkara]] as Raghu
* [[K. T. S. Padannayil]] as grandfather
* Kaviyoor Renuka as Janaki
* [[M. R. Gopakumar]] as Ravunni
* Poojappura Radhakrishnan as Postman
* [[Sadiq (Indian actor)|Sadiq]] as Raghavan
* [[Madhupal]] as Sarath (Cameo Appearance)
* Anila Sreekumar as Subadra
* [[Rajith Kumar]] as Bank Employee
* Sindhu as Malavika

==Soundtrack==
The soundtrack album was composed by Mohan Sithara and the lyrics were written by [[Bharanikkavu Sivakumar]] & [[S. Ramesan Nair]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Track !! Song title !! Singer(s)
|-

| 1 || ''Thingalppoo Virinjuvo V1'' || Mohan Sithara, [[Biju Narayanan]], [[K. S. Chithra]]

|-

| 2 || ''Thingalppoo Virinjuvo V2'' || Mohan Sithara, K. S. Chithra

|-

| 3 || ''Thingalppoo Virinjuvo V3'' || Mohan Sithara, Biju Narayanan

|-

| 4 || ''Kilukile Vala Kilungave'' || K. S. Chithra

|-

| 5 || ''Pongi Pongi Pokanam'' || [[M. G. Sreekumar]]

|-

| 6 || ''Kala Kala Kalamozhi'' || [[Mano (singer)|Mano]]

|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0273785}}

[[Category:1998 films]]
[[Category:1998 Malayalam-language films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Thulasidas]]
[[Category:Films scored by Mohan Sithara]]

{{1990s-Malayalam-film-stub}}

Manthrikumaran - Revision history

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