Aanaval Mothiram

Aanaval Mothiram
Aanaval Mothiram
	DVD cover
Directed by	G. S. Vijayan
Written by	T. Damodaran
Produced by	Raju Mathew
Starring	Sreenivasan; Suresh Gopi; Jagathi Sreekumar
Cinematography	Sunny Joseph
Edited by
Music by	Johnson
Release date	1991
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Aanaval Mothiram (Malayalam: ആനവാൽ മോതിരം) is a 1991 Malayalam film directed by G. S. Vijayan, written by T. Damodaran, and starring Sreenivasan, Suresh Gopi, Saranya Ponvannan, and Jagathy Sreekumar.

The plot is loosely based on the 1990 film Short Time.

Plot[]

Circle Inspector James Pallithara and Sub Inspector Nandakumar works for Kerala Police and are good friends. While Nandakumar is brave and adventerous James is cowardly and tries to avoid action at any cost. Nandakumar is in love with home ministers daughter. He is also constantly in a fight with a narcotic group headed by Albertino and Guru.

After an attempt to break into the ministers house to meet his lover is caught, Nanda Kumar and James get a punishment transfer into the special squad. Here, they are put in daring operations to catch criminals. James' many cowardly actions makes him the target of ridicule with in the squad. To exempt himself from another risky operation, James injures himself. While in hospital, his blood samples gets swapped with another policeman's thereby mistakenly diagnosed with final stages of Leukemia.

James evaluates his optiins and realises that his wife and son will financially struggle once he is gone.He eyes the insurance payout his family would get if he dies in action and embarks on impossible missions to get himself killed in action. Little does he know that the diagnosis is wrong and he is in fact healthy. The movie comically chronicles his new-found bravado.

Cast[]

Sreenivasan as C.I James Pallithara
Suresh Gopi as S.I Nandakumar (Nandu)
Sara as Sruthi
Saranya Ponvannan as Annie
Jagathi Sreekumar as Chellappan
Karamana Janardanan Nair as Home Minister Ramachandran Nair
Riza Bava as Commissioner Sajith Kumar
Rajan P. Dev as Mathew Kuruvilla
K.P.A.C. Sunny as D.I.G. Michael Kurien
Jagannatha Varma as I. G. Karthikeyan
Kundara Johny as C.I Joseph
Mohan Raj as Guru
Gavin Packard as Alberto Fellaini
Ravi Vallathol as Bank Manager
Vineeth Anil as Biju , James Pallithara's Son
Jagannathan as Annie's father
Mohan Jose as Gang member, Suicide bomber
James as Registrar
Kothuku Nanappan as Coffin seller

Remakes[]

Year	Film	Language	Cast	Director	Box Office
1995	Gambler	Hindi	Govinda, Shilpa Shetty, Aditya Pancholi	Dayal Nihalani	Average
2013	Ragalaipuram	Tamil	Karunas, Sanjana Singh, Kovai Sarala	Mano	Disaster

External links[]

Aanaval Mothiram at IMDb

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