Director: Sathyan Anthikad; Writer: Sathyan Anthikad; Cinematographer: Bipin Mohan; Cast: Mohanlal, Srinivasan, Seema, Mammootty, Karthika, Thilakan
Duration: 02:11:42; Aspect Ratio: 1.825:1; Hue: 21.548; Saturation: 0.069; Lightness: 0.439; Volume: 0.355; Cuts per Minute: 9.847
Summary: Mohanlal comedy and one of Andhikkad’s
biggest hits. The simpleton Sethu (Mohanlal)
finds employment as a security guard, hired by
a street neighbourhood. The first part of the
film is a straightforward sit-com as his friend
Madhavan (Srinivasan) masquerades as a thief
to raise Sethu’s stock with his employers; the
plan misfires and Madhavan gets a sound
thrashing. Things take a more serious turn as
Sethu’s former girlfriend Maya (Karthika)
moves into one of the houses on the street with
her police chief father (Thilakan). The lovers
had parted when Sethu tried to seduce Maya,
following misguided advice that the best way
to get her father to agree to their marriage was
to get her pregnant first. Sethu makes an
enemy of the entire neighbourhood when he
uses violence to rescue Maya from the
unwanted attentions of one of the street
denizens. He is protected by the schoolteacher
Nirmala (Seema), leading to allegations of an
illicit sexual relationship between them.
However, her husband (Mammootty) arrives
from the Gulf, and sorts everything out. The
plot somewhat gratuitously reveals Maya at the
end to be a widow, whose husband died a
week after their wedding. It does so mainly to
allow the film to end on a tragic note, as Sethu
too leaves for the Gulf unable to make concrete
promises to his reconciled girl. The film is
dominated by Mohanlal’s energetic
performance and the comic dialogue
(interspersing Hindi with Malayalam). Sequels
with the same characters were Nadodikattu
(1987) and Pattana Praveshanam (1988), both
by Andhikkad.
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