Oru Indian Pranayakadha

Oru Indian Pranayakadha (English: An Indian Love Story) is a 2013 Malayalam romantic comedy film written by Ikbal Kuttipuram and directed by Sathyan Anthikad. Starring Fahadh Faasil and Amala Paul in the lead roles. The film was a sleeper hit despite competition from Drishyam.

Oru Indian Pranayakadha
Poster
Directed bySathyan Anthikad
Produced byRajesh Thiruvallom
Babu Mannarkadu
Renju
James
Written byDr. Iqbal Kuttippuram
StarringFahadh Faasil
Amala Paul
Music byVidyasagar
CinematographyPradeep Nair
Edited byK. Rajagopal
Production
company
Central Pictures
Distributed byCentral Pictures
Release date
  • 20 December 2013 (2013-12-20)[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Plot

Oru Indian Pranayakadha is a love story which shows the relationship between a trickish person named Aymanam Sidharthan (Fahadh Faasil) and a disciplined Canadian citizen of Malayali origin named Irene Gardner (Amala Paul). In the beginning, the story shows the political life of Sidharthan. He is the local youth wing leader political outfit. Protege of the district president of the party, Uthup Vallikkadan (Innocent), Sidharthan hopes to make it big in politics . However, his dreams are shattered when the party High command decides to nominate the daughter of one of the party's senior leader's daughter named Vimala Ramanathan (Muthumani). This leads the young politician in despair. During this time the girl Irene Gardner visits Kerala to shoot a documentary. She is in search of an assistant to help her in shoot the film and approaches Uthup. Uthup requests Sidharthan to meet her and assist her. Sidharthan unwillingly went but when Irene promises INR 2000 per day for the assistant, so Siddharthan, who has financial issues, agrees to help her.

During this time Irene then is called by the police for a passport verification. Sidharthan begins to doubt her motives for coming to India. Irene reveals the secret that she has actually come in search for her birth parents. She is an adopted child her parents revealed that. so she decided to find out her birth parents. Sidharthan agrees to help her; they start their investigation. They come to know that a railway porter who know more about her past . They meet him but he refused to reveal, but at last he revealed that she is her parents’ illegitimate daughter. Irene decides to meet her parents without letting them know that she is their daughter. Meanwhile, Sidharthan breaks up with his girlfriend Divya (Shafna) who is going to marry an IAS officer.

Later, Irene finds out her birth mother is an ayurvedic doctor named Dr. Thulasi (Lakshmi Gopalaswamy) and lives at her mother's hospital as a patient for some time. Meanwhile, Sidharthan begins to fall in love with Irene, but neither is aware of this at present. They then discover her birth father's identity. His name is Azad (Prakash Bare) and they go to Rajasthan to meet him. They approach her father is by telling that they're couple from Kerala .During their stay, they participate in Irene's half-sister's wedding and then return to Kerala. Irene then decides to go back to Canada, which Sidharthan does not agree with, as they have realized they are in love with each other. On airport Sidharthan gifts her a laminated photos of her parents and Irene also gifts him a book .

Two years later, Sidharthan is shown as a successful politician and he also completed his LLB. Irene comes back to India and both of them reunite.

Cast

Production

For this film, Fahadh Faasil worked with Sathyan Anthikad for the first time. Unlike his previous movies, Sathyan Anthikad announced the title of the movie at the beginning of filming. The film was shot in and around Kottayam in Kerala[2] and some portions in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.[3]

Soundtrack
Oru Indian Pranayakadha
Soundtrack album by
Vidyasagar
Released13 December 2013
RecordedVarshaa Vallaki Studios
GenreFeature Film Soundtrack
Length18:01
LanguageMalayalam
LabelMuzik 247
ProducerVidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Jannal Oram
(2013)		 Oru Indian Pranayakadha
(2013)		 Bhaiyya Bhaiyya
(2014)

Vidyasagar composed the music; he associatedwith director Sathyan Anthikad for the first time, replacing maestro Ilaiyaraaja who had composed the music score for 10 of the last 12 movies directed by Sathyan. The film had four songs.[4]

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Saajan"Shweta Mohan, M. M. Manasi, Harish & Chorus 
2."Omana Poove"Najim Arshad, Abhirami Ajay 
3."Valudekkanum"G. Sriram 
4."Shyamameghame"K. S. Chithra 

Reception

Oru Indian Pranyakatha is said to have grossed around ₹3.3 crore in 10 days[5] of its release from Kerala box office.

Awards

Kerala State Film Award 2013

  • Kerala State Film Award for Best Editor - K. Rajagopal
Asianet Film Awards 2013
South Indian International Movie Awards 2013
Vanitha Film Awards
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References
  1. Parvathy Nambidi (19 December 2013). "A love story with a difference". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  2. Vijay George (10 October 2013). "On location: The politics of romance". The Hindu. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  3. Radhika, C Pillai (16 December 2013). "Fahadh Faasil and Amala Paul in Bollywood ?". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  4. "ഒരു ഇന്ത്യൻ പ്രണയകഥ (2013)". malayalasangeetham.info. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  5. "Kerala Box-Office – December/Christmas". Sify. 31 December 2013.
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