Punjabi House

Punjabi House Malayalam is a 1998 Malayalam comedy musical film written and directed by Rafi Mecartin, starring Dileep, Mohini, Lal, Cochin Hanifa, Harisree Asokan, Neena Kurup, and Janardanan. The music was composed by Suresh Peters, making his debut as a film composer. The film was released as a grand Onam release on the day of Thiruvonam.clarification needed

Unni Dileep has many debts and no way to repay them. He decides to commit suicide so that his parents can use the insurance money to repay the debts, but he is saved by a fisherman named Gangadharan Cochin Haneefa and his employee Ramanan Harisree Ashokan. When they notice Unni drowning, Unni pretends to be deaf and mute so that they will not understand the truth.Gangadharan has a debt of his own, to a Punjabi family of money lenders who have settled in Kerala. He asks Unni and Ramanan to work at their home until he can repay it. There Unni meets a Punjabi girl named Pooja Mohini, who is partially deaf and completely mute. They fall in love and decide to get married. Unnis family finds out that he is not dead and they come to see him with his old girlfriend Sujatha Jomol, who allows Unni to marry Pooja. ........

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