101 Weddings

101 Weddings
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Directed by	Shafi
Screenplay by	Kalavoor Ravikumar
Story by	Shafi
Produced by	Rafi Bava Hasainar Shaleer
Starring	Kunchacko Boban Jayasurya Biju Menon Samvrutha Sunil Bhama
Cinematography	Alagappan N
Edited by	Mahesh Narayanan
Music by	Deepak Dev
Production company	Film Folks
Distributed by	Murali Films PJ Entertainments Europe
Release date	23 November 2012 (2012-11-23) [1]
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

101 Weddings is a 2012 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy film directed by Shafi and starring Kunchacko Boban, Jayasurya, Biju Menon, Samvrutha Sunil, and Bhama in the lead roles. The film is written by Kalavoor Ravikumar based on a story by the director. The film is produced by Shafi's brother Rafi Mecartin, Hasainar, and Shaleer, with audiography by M. R. Rajakrishnan under the banner of Film Folks and features music composed by Deepak Dev.^[2]

Plot[]

The movie opens up in the childhood pranks of Krishnankutty (Kunchacko Boban), the son of famous Gandhian Munshi Shankara Pillai (Vijayaraghavan) who is repeatedly beaten up by Antappan (Biju Menon), his big schoolmate. Antappan is taking vengeance for the Gandhian deeds of Munshi who has closed down the toddy shop owned by Antappan's father. And when a chance comes up, Krishankutty retaliates by placing the costly golden church arrow in the bag of Antappan, which makes him a thief and lands him in a juvenile home for young criminals.

As they grow up, Krishnankutty becomes a TV producer in the name Krish but is ready to play fowl games and make money by little frauds. But his father Munshi who has now become a much proclaimed Gandhian finds an able girl in Abhirami (Samvrutha Sunil), the only daughter of Abkari contractor Bhasi, to reform his son.

Abhirami and Co who is running the Kasturba Society are on the plans to hold a mass wedding of 101 couples in which she will also find a suitable groom and marry. The mass wedding is arranged in such a way that the interested persons are needed to stay in the picturesque resort-like village for two weeks to get familiar with their probable future partners. Krish is but reluctant to marry another girl with Gandhian principles and brings in Jyothish Kumar a.k.a. Jyothi (Jayasurya), a dance teacher with all female mannerisms, gets him registered as Krishanankutty to make Abhirami move away from this alliance. Antappan and his gang who has now grown up as famous quotation gangs also register for the marriage in the plans to grab the money and 5 gold coins that are given to each couple. And as the day to the marriage comes up, more and more persons enroll into the mass wedding with their own interesting plans.

Cast[]

• Kunchacko Boban as Krishnankutty, son of a strict Gandhian
• Jayasurya as Jyothish Kumar, a classical dance master
• Biju Menon as Antappan, a rowdy
• as Ricky, close friend of Krishnankutty
• Samvrutha Sunil as Abhirami
• Bhama as Rukhiya
• Srindaa as Indira, the mute girl
• Vijayaraghavan as Munshi Shankara Pillai
• Vanitha Krishnachandran as Krishnankutty's Mother
• Salim Kumar as Khader
• Suraj Venjaramoodu as Sundareshan
• Urmila Unni as Vijayamma
• Raveendran as Inspector
• Saju Kodiyan as Kanakambaran
• Yadu Krishnan as Joseph
• Kochu Preman as Lawrence
• Jayakrishnan as Scaria

Production[]

Shooting started on 15 July 2012 at Kochi, the other locations are Thodupuzha, Ottappalam and Hyderabad.^[3]

Soundtrack[]

The soundtrack was composed by Deepak Dev, with lyrics penned by Rafeeq Ahmed. The album consists of four songs. The audio rights of the film were acquired by Manorama Music. The album was launched on 28 October 2012 at Kochi.

Box office[]

The film collected US$3,001 from the UK box office.^[4]

References[]

External links[]

• 101 Weddings at IMDb