Pranchiyettan & the Saint
Pranchiyettan amp the Saint is a 2010 Malayalam satirical comedy film written, directed, and produced by Ranjith. The film centres on the fictitious conversation between the Thrissur based rice merchant C.E. Francis aka Pranchiyettan Mammootty and St. Francis of Assisi Jesse Fox Allen. Priyamani, Innocent, Siddique, Kushboo, Jagathy Sreekumar, Ganapathy, Sasi Kalinga, Tini Tom and Biju Menon play the other important roles.
The story starts with Francis talking to Saint Francis of Assisi about his own life. It starts with a short flashback about a quarrel between Francis and Jose Siddique over their lady love Omana Kushboo when they were in school. Francis had a romance going with Omana but he had to give her up because of Joses tricks. Now Jose and Omana are apparently happily married and are leading doctors in the city.The story progresses with several anecdotes about Francis attempts to get a good name for himself. He fights a local club election for the place of the clubs President but is defeated by Jose. He then arranges a felicitation for the Oscar awardwinner Gafoor Chekutty a spoof of Resul Pookutty, but has to be satisfied with only a back row seat as he had to give up his seat on the dais for a Padmashree recipient. Inspired by the recognition and respect given to a Padmashree recipient, he decides to somehow grab such an award as that may help in changing his name from Ari Pranchi to Padmashree Pranchi. He bribes a politician named Ajay Nambiar Balachandran Chullikkadu with 15million to get the award, but the corrupt politician dupes him. ........
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