Kakkakuyil


Kakkakuyil is a 2001 Malayalam comedy film produced, written, and directed by Priyadarshan starring Mohanlal and Mukesh in the lead roles. The film received mixed reviews upon release but became a super hit at the boxoffice completing 100 days of theatrical run. Kakkakuyil was later remade as London 2005 Indian film in Tamil with Prashanth and Thappuchesi Pappukoodu in Telugu with Mohan Babu by different directors.The story of the film is adapted majorly from the 1988 English film A Fish Called Wanda and the comedy sequences involving the blind couple from the Gujarati play Aaflatoon by Mihir Bhuta which itself was adapted from Harsh Shivsharans original Marathi play GharGhar. These sequences went to be used in the 2006 Hindi movie Golmaal.

Meanwhile, to find a safe cover Sivaraman and Govindan Kutty plan to impersonate Kunjunni, the grandson of a rich but elderly couple, Thampuran Nedumudi Venu and his wife Sethu Kaviyoor Ponnamma. They havent seen their grandchild since his childhood. At the confusion of the moment Sivaraman and Govindankutty end up disguising with the body of Govindan Kutty and the voice of Sivaraman to make up for Kunjunni in front of the blind couple. Pothuval, who knows Govindan Kutty before, makes several attempts to make the old man learn the truth, but all of them fail knowingly or unknowingly much to the luck of the Sivaraman and Govindankutty. While successfully carrying on, they are interrupted by Radhika Menon who disguises herself as the lover of Kunjunni. She calls on all the relatives of the couple by mocking them. The relatives arrive in the absence of Sivaraman. Finding noway out Govindan Kutty pretends to have fainted unconscious and he gets admitted to the hospital. Sivaraman comes to his rescue and says that he is Dr. Gopalakrishnan, a friend of Kunjunni from America.After many successful escapades during their drama, Govindankutty tries to steal the Lord Krishna statue for which he plays a cruel trick by placing a wooden stool in the staircase to injure the old woman which keeps all others out of the house for sometime. Sivaraman engages in a fight with Govindankutty when he tries to leave with the statue he had stolen. The old man accuses his relatives for the accident and asks all his relatives to leave immediately. Sivaraman and Govindankutty gets desperate as the date for the visa payment was nearing. Radhika gives them the money for the visa and asks them to leave the house. She also reveals that she is Kunjunnis actual lover and tells them that Kunjunni has died in America in an accident and she had come to inform this. Sivaraman and Govindankutty accept the money and leave the house. Upon leaving, they come to know that the visa agency was a fake one. H

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