Ishtam (2001 Malayalam film)

Ishtam
Ishtam
Directed by	Sibi Malayil
Written by	Kalavoor Ravikumar
Produced by	David Kachappally
Starring	Dileep; Navya Nair; Nedumudi Venu; Jayasudha; Innocent; Sreenivasan
Cinematography	Venugopal
Edited by	L. Bhoominathan
Music by	Mohan Sitara
Release date	5 October 2001;
Running time	158 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Ishtam (transl. Love ) is a 2001 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sibi Malayil and written by Kalavoor Ravikumar. It stars Dileep and Navya Nair (in her acting debut), with Nedumudi Venu, Innocent, Sreenivasan, and Jayasudha appearing in supporting roles. The music was composed by Mohan Sitara. Ishtam was remade in Hindi as Mere Baap Pehle Aap by Priyadarshan.

Plot[]

Pawan, whose mother died twenty four years ago when he was a child, lives with his father Krishnankutty Menon, a rich businessman. His father frequently and hilariously gets in trouble with the police officer Mariamma, mostly due to his best friend, Narayanan. Anjana meets Pavan whom he ragged her and cut her hair for which she left the college. So Anjana plans to take a sweet revenge by making a false call. After all those fun incidents, Anjana meets Pavan and then Pavan regret for his mischief he had done to Anjana and then they both become friends. Anjana lives with an spinster music teacher, Sridevi.At Anjana's friend's marriage, Krishnankutty Menono saw Sridevi and it turns out that Krishnankutty Menon and Sridevi were actually star-crossed lovers when they were young. Pavan, Anjana, Narayanan and Pavan's brother, Vipin plans to reunite them after all these years - and in the process, Pavan and Anjana discover their feelings for each other as well.

Cast[]

Dileep as Pavan K Menon aka Pavi
Navya Nair as Anjana Pillai(Rose), Pavi's childhood friend
Nedumudi Venu as Krishnankutty Menon, father of Pavi and Vipin
Jayasudha as Sreedevi Teacher
Sreenivasan as Vipin K Menon
Innocent as Narayanan, friend of Krishnankutty Menon
Balachandra Menon as Gokul Das (Anjana Pillai's Father)
Suma Jayaram as Girija Menon
Jyothirmayi as Jyothi
Kalpana as Mariamma Thomas
Arun Ghosh as Jyothi's Husband
Deepika Mohan as Jyothi's Mother
Niyas Backer as Babukuttan
Bindhu Krishna

Soundtrack[]

The film's soundtrack contains 8 songs, all composed by Mohan Sitara and Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri and sachidanandan puzhankara

#	Title	Singer(s)	Raga(s)
1	"Chanchala"	K. S. Chitra	Brindabani Sarang
2	"Ishtam Ishtam"		Chorus
3	"Kaliparayum"		Sunil
4	"Kandu Kandu"	Dhanya	Kapi
5	"Kandu Kandu"	Dr. K. J. Yesudas	Kapi
6	"Kanumpol"	Dr. K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chitra	Kalyani
7	"Kanumpol"	Dr. K. J. Yesudas	Kalyani
8	"Vattathil"		Sunil

Box office[]

The film was commercial success.^[1]

References[]

^ Unni R. Nair (4 January 2002). "Let down". Screen India. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007.

External links[]

Ishtam at IMDb

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[1] Unni R. Nair (4 January 2002). "Let down". Screen India. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007.

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