Up & Down: Mukalil Oralundu
Up amp Down Mukalil Oralundu is a 2013 Malayalam psychological thriller film directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar. It is based on the 2011 Hollywood film Elevator. The story unfolds in a lift where nine people get stuck. Indrajith, Prathap Pothen, K. B. Ganesh Kumar, Rejith Menon, Baiju, Nandhu, Remya Nambeesan, Sruthi Menon, and master Devaraman play the nine characters who got trapped inside the lift. Meghana Raj, Vijayakumar, Jaikrishnan, Kochu Preman are the other important cast. The film is produced by V. Balachandran, R. Karunamurthi and Latha Kurien Rajeev under the banner of Blue Mermaid Picture Company. The script is penned by Sunny Joseph and Manuel George and camera is cranked by Jomon Thomas.
The film unfolds after eight people and a child get stuck in the lift.They include the lift operator Indrajith, a police commissioner Ganesh Kumar, the apartments builder and his dancerwife Baiju and Remya Nambeesan, respectively, an alcoholic writer Prathap Pothen, an IT professional and his girlfriend Rejith Menon and Sruti Menon, respectively, an Americanreturnee Nandhu and a young boy Master Devaraman, who intermittently keeps enquiring about his mother Meghana Raj. They are on their way up to the top floor to take part in the building societys anniversary celebrations. Suddenly, the space becomes a sort of an altered reality. It becomes a place where the real becomes unreal where emotions are raw and extra sensitive. It even prompts the very nature of the characters to change and secrets to be revealed.The script and dialogues are written by Sunny Joseph, Manual George and Indugopan. The three had discussed well about each and every scene in the movie. Rajeev Kumar says there was a consensus among the script writers and him as a director. ........
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