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Udayabhanu is an assistant director and scriptwriter, who dreams of making it big in the film industry. His attempt is thwarted by his roommate, a junior artiste, Rajappan Thengamoodu who steals his script to become superstar Saroj Kumar
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- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 79GoodWatch 77
IMDb7.9
Running time
2 h 42 min
Longer than 9 in 10 comedies, +62 min on the typical 100
typical 100162Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
2005
January 20, 2005
21 years ago
Genres
ComedyDramaRomanceLanguage
Malayalam
Original language
Made in
- India
16 of 16
MohanlalUdayabhanu
MeenaMadhumathi Udayabhanu
SreenivasanRajappan Thengummoodu / Superstar Saroj Kumar
MukeshBabykuttan
Jagathy SreekumarPachalam Bhasi
Salim KumarRafeeq
Cochin HaneefaSona Sisupalan
JanardhananKrishnamoorthy
BhavanaGayathri
IndransVijayan Varkala
T. P. MadhavanBhaskarettan
AnandDinesh
A K LohithadasDirector Prathapan
Deepika MohanBhaskarettan's wife
SreehariValsan Kondotty
Baiju JohnsonBenz Mathew
Directing · 1
- Rosshan Andrrews Director
Writing · 1
- Sreenivasan Writer
Production · 1
- C. Karunakaran Producer
Camera · 1
- S. Kumar Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Ranjan Abraham Editor
Sound · 3
- Ouseppachan Music
- Deepak Dev Music
- Vineeth Sreenivasan Playback Singer
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