Vellithira (2003 film)

Vellithira (transl. Silver Screen) is a 2003 Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Bhadran.[1] It stars Prithviraj Sukumaran and Navya Nair. The story is about a young man who is working hard to raise his sister. The music was composed by debutant Alphons Joseph. The songs were charbusters at that time, particularly the song "Pachamanga Pachamanga".[2]

Vellithira
Soundtrack cover
Directed byBhadran
Written byBhadran
Produced byLatha Mohan
Starring
CinematographyS. Kumar
Edited byRanjan Abraham
Music byAlphons Joseph
Production
company
Shlok Films
Distributed byShlok Release
Release date
  • 27 June 2003 (2003-06-27)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Plot edit

A teenage girl named Thatha is living with her blacksmith brother Vakkathi Vasu and his wife and children. Style Raj is a guy who moves from place to place with a movie projector and shows movie to public on the run for a living. He meets Thatha and falls in love. Vasu discovers that Raj is actually the murderer of the landlord who killed his father. In the end Raj is sent to jail.

Cast edit

Soundtrack edit

The film's soundtrack contains 13 songs, all composed by Alphons Joseph. Lyrics were by Shibu Chakravarthy, Kaithapram. Film marked the debut of Alphons as a film composer. The audio launch for this film's soundtrack was done by A. R. Rahman.

# Title Singer(s)
1 "Hridayasakhee" Hariharan
2 "Hridayasakhee" (D) Hariharan, K. S. Chitra
3 "Kanmaniye" M. G. Sreekumar
4 "Karinkallil Kadanjedutha" Sujatha Mohan, Vidhu Prathap, Chorus
5 "Kudamullakkadavil" Sujatha Mohan
6 "Pacha Maanga" Shankar Mahadevan, K. S. Chitra
7 "Madhuramoru Swapname Nee" M. G. Sreekumar
8 "Nee Enthuparanjalum" Sujatha Mohan
9 "Nee Manimukilaadakal" P. Jayachandran, K. S. Chitra
10 "Oru Vaakku" G. Venugopal, Prameela
11 "Ottuvacha" Biju Narayanan, Anwar Sadath, Bindu
12 "Prakrithee Nanohari" (Bonus Track) M. G. Radhakrishnan
13 "Velichathin Vellithooval" Alphonse Joseph

Awards edit

  • Kaveri Film Critics Award - Best Singer - Sujatha Mohan (also for Kasthooriman)[3]

References edit

  1. ^ "Vellithira". Sify. Archived from the original on 30 January 2022.
  2. ^ Anand, Shilpa Nair (4 December 2015). "His blue room of music". The Hindu.
  3. ^ "Film critics' awards announced". The Hindu. February 2004.

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