Meesa Madhavan

Meesha Madhavan (lit. 'Mustache Madhavan') is a 2002 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film directed by Lal Jose and written by Ranjan Pramod. The film stars Dileep in the title role, while Indrajith Sukumaran, Kavya Madhavan, Jagathy Sreekumar and Cochin Haneefa play supporting roles. It was the highest-grossing Malayalam film of the year. Meesha Madhavan raised Dileep's stardom to a whole new level and developed a cult following in Malayalam cinema.^[2] It was remade in Telugu as Dongodu (2003) starring Ravi Teja and in Kannada as Hori (2010) starring Vinod Prabhakar and in Tamil as Kollaikaran starring Vidharth.^[3]

Meesha Madhavan
VCD cover
Directed by	Lal Jose
Written by	Ranjan Pramod
Produced by	Maha Subair Sudhish
Starring	Dileep
Narrated by	Ranjith
Cinematography	S. Kumar
Edited by	Ranjan Abraham
Music by	Vidyasagar
Production company	Moviekshetra
Distributed by	Kalasangham Films Kas Varnachithra
Release date	4 July 2002 (2002-07-04)
Running time	160 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	₹1.45 crore (US$180,000)^[1]

Plot

Madhavan is a clever thief who robs for a living and is well known in the village. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan who trained him to be a thief when Madhavan was a young boy. Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Moustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he will rob his house that night.

His enemy is the local money lender Bhageerathan Pillai who refuses to give back his father's property despite Madhavan paying back the loan with interest years ago. Madhavan falls in love with Bhageerathan Pillai's daughter Rukmini. Despite being childhood friends, in the beginning of the movie Rukmini hates Madhavan as he is a well known thief in the locality.

But later on when she realizes that Madhavan's sisters marriage was cancelled because of her father, she slowly started falling for him and later both fall in love with each other. The sub inspector in the village Eappen Pappachi has an eye on Rukmini.

Eappan steals the idol from the local Temple with the intention of selling it and puts the blame on Madhavan. It becomes Madhavan's responsibility to find the culprits and he does that with his mentor's help and thus uniting with his girl friend, with the blessing of her father, Bhageerathan Pillai.

Cast

• Dileep as Madhavan Nair (Meesa Madhavan)
• Indrajith Sukumaran as Eappen Pappachi (S.I. of Police)
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Krishnavilasom Bhageerathan Pillai
• Kavya Madhavan as Rukmini
• Harisree Ashokan as Sugunan (Madhavan's friend)
• Cochin Haneefa as Thrivikraman
• Mala Aravindan as Mullani Pappan
• Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Constable Achuthan Namboothiri (Prabha's father)
• Jyothirmayi as Prabha
• Karthika Mathew as Malathi (Madhavan's younger sister)
• Sukumari as Sumathi, Madhavan's mother
• James as Pattalam Purushu
• Salim Kumar as Advocate Mukundanunni
• Machan Varghese as Lineman Lonappan
• Manikandan Pattambi as Vazhipaadu announcer
• Ajaykumar as Tea Boy (as Unda Pakru)
• Sanusha as Rukmini Jr.
• Jayesh Pazhanimala as Meesa Madhavan's childhood friend
• Kalabhavan Prachod as Prabha's husband
• Ambika Mohan as Santhamma (Bhageerathan Pillai's wife)
• Gayathri as Sarasu (Pattalam Purushu's wife)
• Meena Ganesh
• Yamuna as Madhavan's sister in law
• Dinesh Prabhakar
• Vijayan Peringode as Warrier
• Kozhikode Narayanan Nair as Advocate
• E Rajendran as Manikandan, Madhavan's elder brother

Soundtrack

Meesha Madhavan
Soundtrack album by Vidyasagar
Released	6 June 2002 (2002-06-06)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Satyam Audios
Producer	Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Randam Bhavam (2001) Meesha Madhavan (2002) Pattalam (2003)

The music album of Meesa Madhavan happens to be one of the most popular works of Vidyasagar. The lyrics were written by Gireesh Puthenchery. A part of the song "Karimizhi Kuruviye" was reused in "Aasai Aasai Ippoluthu" in Dhool.

Track	Song Title	Singers	Raga(s)
1	"Ente Ellamellam"	K. J. Yesudas, Sujatha Mohan, Sreeja Ravi(Dialogues)	Desh
2	"Karimizhi Kuruviye"	Sujatha Mohan, V. Devanand	Kapi
3	"Penne Penne"	M. G. Sreekumar, K. S. Chithra, Kalyani Menon.	Valachi
4	"Chingamaasam"	Shankar Mahadevan, Rimy Tomy	Shanmukhapriya
5	"Theme Music"	Instrumental
6	"Elavathooru"	P. Madhuri
7	"Pathiri Chuttu"	Machad Vasanthi
8	"Ente Ellam"	K. J. Yesudas
9	"Karimizhi Kuruviye"	Sujatha Mohan	Kapi
10	"Vaaleduthal"	Vidhu Prathap, Anuradha Sriram	Kharaharapriya

Reception

The film was commercial success at the box office^[4] and became the highest-grossing Malayalam film of 2002.^[5][6][7] It had completed 250 days in theatres.^{[8][9] [10][11][12][13][14]}

References

1. Sreedhar Pillai (23 August 2002). . The Hindu. Archived from the original on 29 January 2003. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
2. "Meesha Madhavan | ചേക്കിലെ മാധവന്റെയും പട്ടാളം പുരുഷുവിന്റെയും വീടുകൾ കണ്ടിട്ടുണ്ടോ? വീഡിയോ ഇതാ". News18 Malayalam. 25 January 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
3. "Hori Review | Hori Kannada Movie Review by V.S. Rajapur".
4. "Did you know Dileep's real name is Gopalakrishnan?". The Times of India. 27 October 2020.
5. Naveen Nair (19 July 2017). "Kerala actress assault: Dileep's controversial rise to power in film industry". Hindustan Times.
6. "Sathyan Anthikad and Lal Jose: Winning the hearts of the Malayalam 'family' audience". The News Minute. 4 July 2017.
7. "Mollywood's most famous star kids". The Times of India. 27 March 2018.
8. "Dileep and July 4 connection: Fans trend #GoldenDayOfDileep on Twitter". Malayala Manorama. 4 July 2020.
9. . The Hindu. 25 October 2002. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016.
10. . The Hindu. 15 February 2003. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016.
11. . Sify. 21 April 2004. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017.
12. . Sify. 8 January 2006. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018.
13. . Sify. 21 December 2013. Archived from the original on 19 March 2018.
14. . Sify. 14 June 2006. Archived from the original on 18 March 2018.

External links

• Meesa Madhavan at IMDb