Ezhupunna Tharakan

Ezhupunna Tharakan
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Directed by	P. G. Viswambharan
Written by	Kaloor Dennis
Produced by	George P. Joseph
Starring	Mammootty Jagadish Madhu Namrata
Cinematography	Sanjeev Shankar
Edited by	A. Sreekar Prasad
Music by	Vidyasagar
Distributed by	Leo Group Of Companies
Release date	April 1999 (1999 -04)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

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, main protagonist, Ezhupunna Odha's son
• Jagadish as Muhammad Ali, Sunny's friend
• Madhu as Ezhupunna Outha Tharakan
• Namrata Shirodkar as Ashwathy Varma, Sunny's love interest, Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's daughter
• Sangeetha as Aiswarya Gowda
• Captain Raju as Ezhupunna Chacko Tharakan, Ezhupunna Ouda's second younger brother
• K.P.A.C. Sunny as Ezhupunna Mathew Tharakan, Ezhupunna Oudha's first younger brother
• Rajan P. Dev as Kumbanadan Lazar, main rival of Ezhupunna Tharakan family
• Vijayakumar as Ezhupunna Baby Tharakan, Ezhupunna Chacko's son, Lazer's son in law
• Kaviyoor Ponnamma as Kunjannamma, Ouda's wife, Sunny's mother
• Praveena as Rani, Sunny's sister
• Zainuddin as Pushkaran
• Sadiq as Ajayan, Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's nephew, Padmanabhan's son, Aswani's paternal cousin
• Kozhikode Narayanan Nair as Paliyankkara Valiya Thampuran, Aswanis father, main antagonist
• Baiju Ezhupunna as Sathyanathan, Paliyankars Valiya Thampuran's nephew, Ramabhadran's son, Aswani's paternal cousin
• V. K. Sreeraman as Ramabhadran, Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's first younger brother, second main antagonist
• T. P. Madhavan as Justice Mahadevan
• Jagannatha Varma as Father Bernard
• Spadikam George as Padmanabhan, Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's second younger brother, third main antagonist
• Paravur Ramachandran as Rajasekharan, Paliyankara Valiya Thampuran's third younger brother, fourth main antagonist
• Rizabawa as DYSP Gopinathan Varma, antagonist
• 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, Paliyankara Thampuran's younger sister, Aswani's aunt

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

1. "How Mahesh Babu and Namrata Shirodkar Made Their Daughter Sitara's 9th Birthday Special".
2. "HBD Mammootty: Chiranjeevi, Mahesh Babu and Director Mahi V Raghav Wish Mammukka on His Special Day!". 7 September 2020.
3. Veteran Malayalam director P G Viswambharan dead - Sify, Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 17:17
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20000614113548/http://deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep05/enter.htm ^{[bare URL]}

External links

• Ezhupunna Tharakan at IMDb