Director: Dennis Joseph; Writer: Shibu Chakravorthy; Producer: Joy Thomas; Cinematographer: Jayanan Vincent; Editor: K. Shankunny; Cast: Mammootty, Soman, Pratapchandran, Suresh Gopi, Kuriatchan, Sandheep, Anoop, Kareem, Mohanlal
Duration: 01:57:07; Aspect Ratio: 1.788:1; Hue: 41.575; Saturation: 0.119; Lightness: 0.341; Volume: 0.277; Cuts per Minute: 17.946; Words per Minute: 46.514
Summary: Children’s adventure story adapting the ‘kids
on vacation’ plot still associated amongst
Indian children with Enid Blyton and Margaret
Bhatty. Four school children trail a gang of
museum thieves. On the way, they take part in
bicycle chases, befriend a runaway delinquent
and have a lavish lunch paid for by Malayalam
superstar Mohanlal, in a brief guest
appearance. In the end the kids overwhelm the
gangsters’ hideout and fight it out with cricket
balls and a little help from their beloved Manu
Uncle (Mammootty), a scientist and secret
agent. Suresh Gopi, as the bungling police
chief, dominates the climax.
Around the time Mani Ratnam's Roja (1992) used images of 'working on the computer' as a way of projecting its hero Rishi's (Arvind Swamy) cosmopolitan modernity (as Tejaswini Niranjana argued in her 1994 essay "Integrating Whose Nation: Tourists and Terrorists in Roja"), the computer had started figuring in Malayalam cinema too. What if we try to identify early figurations of the computer in Malayalam cinema?
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