Vakkalathu Narayanankutty
Vakkalathu Narayanankutty is a 2001 Malayalam film co-written and directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar with Jayaram, Manya, Mukesh and Jagathy Sreekumar in the lead. It was actor Bobby Kottarakkara's last film. It was during the shooting of this film that Bobby Kottarakkara died, leaving the team to continue the shooting without him.[1] The film had an average performance at the box office.[2][3]
Vakkalathu Narayanankutty | |
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Directed by | T. K. Rajeev Kumar |
Produced by | B. Rakesh |
Written by | Story: T. K. Rajeev Kumar Screenplay: T. K. Rajeev Kumar Jayaprakash Kuloor Dialogues: Jayaprakash Kuloor |
Starring | Jayaram Manya Mukesh Jagathy Sreekumar Bobby Kottarakkara |
Music by | Songs: Mohan Sithara Background score: Sharreth |
Cinematography | Ravi Varman |
Edited by | Sreekar Prasad |
Distributed by | Khathilakam Release |
Release date | March 15, 2001 |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Plot
The film presents the story of Narayanankutty, popularly known as Vakkaalaththu Narayanankutty, an active social worker who can bear anything but breach of justice. When he sees law being broken anywhere, he reacts promptly. He doesn't even care as to who is pitted against him and just goes on fighting. This leads to all sorts of problems in his life and the film follows that.
Cast
- Jayaram as Vakkalathu Narayanankutty
- Manya as Kukku Kurian
- Mukesh as Adv. Mathew Chandy Neruparambil
- K.B. Ganesh Kumar as Raghu
- Jagathy Sreekumar as Easwara Subramoni Iyer
- Bobby Kottarakkara as Captain Bobby
- P. Balachandran as Padmanabhan
- Rajan P. Dev as DGP Kurian Kulapurayil
- Shalu Menon as Niveditha
- Kalabhavan Mani as S.I Chandran
- Kalliyoor Sasi as Prof. Narayanan Potty
- Ponnamma Babu as Kukku's Mother
- P. Sreekumar as Sasidhara Kurup
- Adv. Jayaprakash Kottarakara as Cameo Appearance
- Viji Thampi as Cameo Appearance
References
- Unni R. Nair (5 January 2001). "Vakkalathu Narayanankutty: A fight against injustice". Screen India. Archived from the original on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- Unni R. Nair (4 January 2002). "Let down". Screen India. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
- "2001 - Another disastrous year for filmdom". Kala Keralam. 2001. Retrieved 14 April 2011.