Ezhupunna Tharakan is a 1999 Malayalam film directed by P. G. Viswambharan. It features Mammootty, Jagadish, Madhu and Namrata Shirodkar in the lead roles. This was Shirodkar's first & only Malayalam film.[1][2] The film was a commercial failure.[3]
Cast
- Mammootty as Ezhupunna Sunny Tharakan
- Jagadish as Muhammad Ali, Sunny's friend
- Madhu as Ezhupunna Outha Tharakan
- Namrata Shirodkar as Ashwathy Varma
- Sangeetha as Aiswarya Gowda
- Captain Raju as Ezhupunna Chacko Tharakan
- K.P.A.C. Sunny as Ezhupunna Mathew Tharakan
- Rajan P. Dev as Kumbanadan Lazar
- Vijayakumar as Ezhupunna Baby Tharakan
- Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Kunjannamma
- Praveena as Rani, Sunny's sister
- Zainuddin as Pushkaran
- Sadiq as Ajayan
- Kozhikode Narayanan Nair as Paliyankkara Valiya Thampuran
- Baiju Ezhupunna as Sathyanathan, Paliyankars Valiya Thampuran's nephew
- V. K. Sreeraman as Ramabhadran
- T. P. Madhavan as Justice Mahadevan
- Jagannatha Varma as Father Bernard
- Spadikam George as Padmanabhan
- Paravur Ramachandran as Rajasekharan
- Rizabawa as DYSP Gopinathan Varma
- Chandni Shaju as Leena Lazer
- Manka Mahesh as Mary Chacko
- Professor Aliyar as Advocate Vasudevan Nair
- Vimal Raj in cameo appearance
- Shammi Thilakan in cameo appearance
- Bindu Ramakrishnan in cameo appearance
- Jayabharathi in cameo appearance
Songs
The movie has five songs which were composed by Vidyasagar. The lyrics were written by Gireesh Puthenchery.
| Song | Singers |
|---|---|
| "Mele Vinnil" | Srinivas |
| "Mele Vinnil" | K. S. Chithra |
| "Minnum Nilave" | Sujatha Mohan, K. J. Yesudas |
| "Thekkan Katte" | Biju Narayanan, M. G. Sreekumar, Unni Menon, Radhika Thilak, Sujatha Mohan, C. O. Anto |
| "Thekku Thekku" | K. J. Yesudas |
| "Enne Maranno Ponne" | K. J. Yesudas, Sujatha Mohan |
Reception
A critic from Deccan Herald wrote that the film was "Time-pass stuff".[4]
References
- ^ "How Mahesh Babu and Namrata Shirodkar Made Their Daughter Sitara's 9th Birthday Special".
- ^ "HBD Mammootty: Chiranjeevi, Mahesh Babu and Director Mahi V Raghav Wish Mammukka on His Special Day!". 7 September 2020.
- ^ Veteran Malayalam director P G Viswambharan dead - Sify, Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 17:17
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20000614113548/http://deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep05/enter.htm [bare URL]