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| Directed by | Lal Jose |
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| Written by | Ranjan Pramod |
| Produced by | Maha Subair Sudhish |
| Starring | Dileep |
| Cinematography | S. Kumar |
| Edited by | Ranjan Abraham |
| Music by | Vidyasagar
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Budget | Template:INRConvert[1]
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Meesha Madhavan (Template:Literal translation) is a 2002 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film directed by Lal Jose and written by Ranjan Pramod. The film stars Dileep in the title role, while Kavya Madhavan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Indrajith Sukumaran and Jyothirmayi in supporting roles. It was the highest-grossing Malayalam film of that time and ended up being an industrial hit. Meesha Madhavan raised Dileep's stardom to a whole new level and developed a cult following in Malayalam cinema.[2] It was remade in Telugu as Dongodu (2003) starring Ravi Teja and in Kannada as Hori (2010) starring Vinod Prabhakar and in Tamil as Kollaikaran starring Vidharth.[3]
Plot
Template:More plot Madhavan is a clever thief who robs for a living and is well known in the village. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan who trained him to be a thief when Madhavan was a young boy. Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Moustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he will rob his house that night.
His enemy is the local money lender Bhageerathan Pillai who refuses to give back his father's property despite Madhavan paying back the loan with interest years ago. Madhavan falls in love with Bhageerathan Pillai's daughter Rukmini. Despite being childhood friends, in the beginning of the movie Rukmini hates Madhavan as he is a well known thief in the locality.
But later on when she realizes that Madhavan's sisters marriage was cancelled because of her father, she slowly started falling for him and later both fall in love with each other. The sub inspector in the village Eappen Pappachi has an eye on Rukmini.
Eappan steals the idol from the local Temple with the intention of selling it and puts the blame on Madhavan. It becomes Madhavan's responsibility to find the culprits and he does that with his mentor's help and thus uniting with his girl friend, with the blessing of her father, Bhageerathan Pillai.
Cast
- Dileep as Madhavan Nair (Meesa Madhavan)
- Kavya Madhavan as Rukmini
- Indrajith as Eappen Pappachi (S.I. of Police)
- Jagathy Sreekumar as Krishnavilasom Bhageerathan Pillai
- Harisree Ashokan as Sugunan (Madhavan's friend)
- Cochin Haneefa as Thrivikraman
- Mala Aravindan as Mullani Pappan
- Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Constable Achuthan Namboothiri (Prabha's father)
- Jyothirmayi as Prabha
- Karthika Mathew as Malathi (Madhavan's younger sister)
- Sukumari as Sumathi, Madhavan's mother
- James as Pattalam Purushu
- Salim Kumar as Advocate Mukundanunni
- Machan Varghese as Lineman Lonappan
- Manikandan Pattambi as Vazhipaadu announcer
- Ajaykumar as Tea Boy (as Unda Pakru)
- Sanusha as Rukmini Jr.
- Jayesh Pazhanimala as Meesa Madhavan's childhood friend
- Kalabhavan Prachod as Prabha's husband
- Ambika Mohan as Santhamma (Bhageerathan Pillai's wife)
- Gayathri as Sarasu (Pattalam Purushu's wife)
- Meena Ganesh
- Yamuna as Madhavan's sister in law
- Dinesh Prabhakar
- Vijayan Peringode as Warrier
- Kozhikode Narayanan Nair as Advocate
- Lal Jose (Cameo)
Soundtrack
The music album of Meesa Madhavan happens to be one of the most popular works of Vidyasagar. The lyrics were written by Gireesh Puthenchery. A part of the song "Karimizhi Kuruviye" was reused in "Aasai Aasai Ippoluthu" in Dhool.
| Track | Song Title | Singers | Raga(s) |
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| 1 | "Ente Ellamellam" | K. J. Yesudas, Sujatha Mohan, Sreeja Ravi(Dialogues) | Desh |
| 2 | "Karimizhi Kuruviye" | Sujatha Mohan, V. Devanand | Kapi |
| 3 | "Penne Penne" | M. G. Sreekumar, K. S. Chithra, Kalyani Menon. | Valachi |
| 4 | "Chingamaasam" | Shankar Mahadevan, Rimy Tomy | Shanmukhapriya |
| 5 | "Theme Music" | Instrumental | |
| 6 | "Elavathooru" | P. Madhuri | |
| 7 | "Pathiri Chuttu" | Machad Vasanthi | |
| 8 | "Ente Ellam" | K. J. Yesudas | |
| 9 | "Karimizhi Kuruviye" | Sujatha Mohan | Kapi |
| 10 | "Vaaleduthal" | Vidhu Prathap, Anuradha Sriram | Kharaharapriya |
Reception
The film was commercial success at the box office[4] and became the highest-grossing Malayalam film of that time and ended up being an industrial hit.[5][6][7] It had completed 250 days in theatres.[8][9] The film raised Dileep's stardom to a Super Star level.[10][11][12][13][14]
References
- ↑ Magic on the wane. The Hindu(23 August 2002). Retrieved 29 October 2016.
- ↑ Meesha Madhavan | ചേക്കിലെ മാധവന്റെയും പട്ടാളം പുരുഷുവിന്റെയും വീടുകൾ കണ്ടിട്ടുണ്ടോ? വീഡിയോ ഇതാ. News18 Malayalam(2021-01-25). Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ↑ Hori Review | Hori Kannada Movie Review by V.S. Rajapur.
- ↑ Did you know Dileep's real name is Gopalakrishnan?(27 October 2020).
- ↑ Kerala actress assault: Dileep's controversial rise to power in film industry(19 July 2017).
- ↑ Sathyan Anthikad and Lal Jose: Winning the hearts of the Malayalam 'family' audience(4 July 2017).
- ↑ Mollywood's most famous star kids(27 March 2018).
- ↑ Dileep and July 4 connection: Fans trend #GoldenDayOfDileep on Twitter(4 July 2020).
- ↑ 'Meesa Madhavan'(25 October 2002).
- ↑ A filmi shot in the arm(15 February 2003).
- ↑ "I have more enemies than friends": Dileep(21 April 2004).
- ↑ Dileep-Kavya in New Zealand!. Sify(8 January 2006).
- ↑ Malayalam actor Dileep not paying service tax. Sify(21 December 2013).
- ↑ Dileep's lucky date!. Sify(14 June 2006).