Mookilla Rajyathu


Mookilla Rajyathu is a Malayalam movie released in 1991 directed by the duo AshokanThaha featuring Mukesh, Siddique, Thilakan and Jagathy in the lead roles. This comedy flick revolves around four patients who escape a mental asylum, their antics and the mischief they get up to while trying to start life in a normal society, which, as the title appears to insinuate, often fares worse in terms of sanity. The movie is inspired by the comedy The Dream Team.

Driven by a desire to see Amitabh Bachchan the four of them manage to escape from the mental hospital that night by outsmarting the cell warden Ameen Mala Aravindan. They reach Ernakulam city in a bus, but are disappointed to learn that Amitabh Bachchan had gone back after the film shooting which took place a month ago, and they had in fact seen an old newspaper report. They decide not to return to the mental hospital but start living in the city by finding suitable employments. The film portrays their many eccentric pranks after their arrival in the city even though ironically they display normal and even intelligent behavior too much of the time. The ostracization and stigmatization faced by mental patients in the society too is brought to fore in a couple of emotional scenes. The protagonist Benny meets his former college mate and lover Leena Vinaya Prasad too there imparting glamour to the plot. Paravoor Bharathan plays as father of Leena, who is unwilling to give his daughter in marriage to Benny, and even unsuccessfully hires a goon Bheem Singh Krishnan Kutty Nair to get rid of him.The story enters a new phase with the arrival of two shady characters Vasu Kuthiravattom Pappu and Abdullah Rajan P Dev under the pseudo names Sundaran Pillai and Gireesh Puri, in the disguise of a TV serial producer and director respectively. Their intention is to rob a bank near to the home rented by the four, by making a tunnel under their home. For that they hire the four supposedly for their TV serial and send them to learn various skills like martial arts, rock climbing, tree climbing, break dance etc. to keep them away from the house during the day time while the excavation is going on under the supervision of another gang member Bruno Kunchan. But the Police officer played by Jagadish is tracking their activities. In the end their vicious scheme is busted up by the police officer, assisted by our four heroes who wake up to the reality at last, and the bank robbers end up in

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