Harikrishnans
Harikrishnans Malayalam is a 1998 Malayalam detective comedy film written and directed by Fazil. The film was produced and distributed by Mohanlal under the production company Pranavam Arts International and starring Mammootty, Mohanlal, Juhi Chawla, Innocent, Shamili, Nedumudi Venu and Kunchacko Boban. The film received a tremendous prerelease hype due to the combined screen presence of stars Mohanlal and Mammootty after a gap of several years. Harikrishnans turned out to be a blockbuster at the Kerala boxoffice, it was the highest grossing Malayalam film of 1998.
The Harikrishnans Mammootty and Mohanlal are one of the most famous lawyer duos in India. To avoid confusion one is called as Hari Mammooty and the other as Krishnan Mohanlal. They head the organization called Harikrishnan Associates, which consists of around 300 lawyers. They get engaged in a murder case of Guptan, who was allegedly killed by Gabriel. Gabriel is a friend of Haris sister and Harikrishnans become the defense lawyers upon her request. Harikrishnans begin investigation and come across Meera Juhi Chawla, a friend of Guptan. Both of them fall in love with her. After some trouble over the matter, they rediscover their friendship and get involved in the case again. They discover that Guptan actually died due to poisoning by his relatives who were doctors. At the end Meera decides to go for a random method of choosing her lover as she liked both Harikrishnans equally. Two different climaxes of the film show either of Harikrishnans winning the toss for being Meeras friend the losing person presumably becoming Meeras lover.Harikrishnans had multiple climaxes to appease the fan base of the lead actors Mammootty and Mohanlal. This had also caused some controversy. The scene was when Meera Juhi Chawla chooses one of them to be her friend among both the Harikrishnans. She admires both equally and goes for a selection method which her grandmother taught her, whenever she had to make tough decisions. She sets the method so as to choose her friend the loser of the toss presumably becoming Miras lover. One of the climax shots shows Hari Mammootty winning the toss and the other one Krishnan Mohanlal winning it. The first climax was used in regions of higher fan base to Mohanlal, indistricts and the second was used in otherdistricts in which Mammootty has the upper hand. A third climax was also planned for release in areas with a neutral fan base featuring Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan. Even promotional stills of the third climax were taken, but the plan
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