2 Harihar Nagar

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2 Harihar Nagar
Harihar Nagar 2.jpg
Promotional poster
Directed by Lal
Written byLal
Produced byP. N. Venugopal
Starring Mukesh
Siddique
Jagadish
Ashokan
Cinematography Venu
Edited byV. Sajan
Music by Alex Paul
Distributed byLal Releases (India)
PJ Entertainments (Europe)
Release date
  • 1 April 2009 (2009-04-01)
Running time
136 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam
Budget₹4 crore
Box office₹20 crore

2 Harihar Nagar is a 2009 Indian Malayalam-language comedy thriller film written and directed by Lal and produced by P. N. Venugopal starring Mukesh, Siddique, Jagadish and Ashokan. It is the sequel to In Harihar Nagar (1990). The film chronicles the story of four childhood friends Mahadevan (Mukesh), Govindan Kutty (Siddique), Appukuttan (Jagadish) and Thomas Kutty (Ashokan) who revisits their home residence Harihar Nagar after many years to relive their old days. However, problems arise when one of them goes missing.

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The film was a box office success. [1] A sequel, In Ghost House Inn was released in 2010.

Plot

The movie starts with a flashback, in front of a church, in 1980 when the four main characters were children. This scene shows the beginning of their friendship. Thomas Philip alias Thomas Kutty loses money to a scam artist, who responds to his complaints with violence. He is rescued by other three friends Mahadevan, Govindan Kutty and Appukuttan Nair who respond to his calls of distress. They invite Thomas Kutty to join their group who, above all, vow never to cheat on one another. The scene is transitioned by the quote "Thomas Kutty Vittodaa!" (Thomas kutty, run!) once the scam artist brings his friends to return the beating he got.

The movie transitions to the current time: each of them are introduced again, 20 years later. Mahadevan is a personality development trainer in Dubai who is married to Sulochana and they have daughter Meenakshi, but their family life is not successful. Govindan Kutty is a leading builder who's happily married Parvathi and settled in Bangalore. Appukuttan is a dentist, living in Mumbai who often troubles his wife Janaki and twin sons Manu and Vinu.

The prologue show them preparing to travel back to Harihar Nagar to attend Thomas Kutty's wedding. After many years of "enjoying" his bachelor life, Thomas Kutty has decided to settle down and marry an orphan Jessy who belonged to the same church as him. The prologue also highlights that none of them have really changed from their flirtatious ways, despite being married. After arriving at Harihar Nagar, they settle into Govindan Kutty's old house at Harihar Nagar. Disappointed at how life has become sombre after growing up, they decide to revert to their younger selves for the rest of the trip. To jump start their "trip back to youthfulness", Mahadevan suggests that they should create problems in the neighbourhood: according to him, its only with problems that one becomes youthfully energetic.

While staying at Govindan Kutty's house, they are greeted with flowers left at the doorstep with a tag reading "Maya". Immediately thinking that this is their old Maya, they go to meet her in a café. They barely miss her, but Appukuttan throws a rock and breaks her car's rear window. An anonymous woman steps out of the car, who is revealed to be another Maya. They get arrested. Later, Maya comes and gets them out of jail saying that they are her friends and didn't recognise it because she hadn't seen them in a long time. Once out, she says not to bother her any more because of this. Maya lives right across from Govindan Kutty's house. Trying to find the weakness that will draw her attention, that night Appukuttan looks to the window and is frightened by the sight of a ghostly figure with a "burned" face. Thomas Kutty is not staying with the other three on that night, but he arrives the next morning. Mahadevan says a sentimental story to make Maya believe that they're not here for wrong reasons. She later comes and visits them and becomes their friend. A hilarious sequence follows.

It is revealed that Maya is John Honai's daughter Cristina, in cahoots with her evil brother Freddy. Thomas Kutty gets kidnapped days before his wedding and his three friends are suspected. They are followed by the police. Meanwhile, Freddy has Thomas Kutty. The trio gets kidnapped by Freddy's henchmen and they find Thomas Kutty in the place. Freddy demands the box filled with money which their old Maya had given them. The three friends say to Freddy that they will give the box when the original owner comes in front of them. Freddy calls them to a room where a face covered man with his wheelchair by halfly burned face is sitting. Appukkuttan remembers the face that he had seen earlier at Maya's house. Freddy reveals it is the person the foursome knows as Honai. The box is now in a bank with each of the foursome knowing two digits of the password. The four friends escape, but Appukuttan is captured. Maya is found and chided, but she tells her story full of dire circumstances. The correct code for the box sounds faulty.

After a lot of twists and turns they confront Freddy who has a time bomb attached to his pet Lousie, a clinging lizard. During the fight between the 4 friends, Freddy and his henchmen, the bomb comically gets caught over each person, except Mahadevan. The time bomb gets caught on Thomas kutty while Freddy presses the ignition to burst in 30 seconds. Thomas Kutty runs to Freddy in the last few seconds and pushes Freddy into the next room. The bomb explodes killing them both. But later, a twist occurs showing that Thomas Kutty is alive and was betraying them. The three friends realises this and they beats him up in and leaves him at the same church where they started their friendship. THomas Kutty realises his mistake and confess that everything was a plan he made to get the money to pay a debt he had while gambling. He apologises for everything he did and they all reconcile at his wedding and becomes best friends again.

Cast

Sequel

In Ghost House Inn was released in 2010.

Box office

The film was released in 130 screens all over Kerala and had a successful opening, owing to the cult following of its prequel. [2] The film was highly successful which ran over 100 days in theatres, [1] and was one of the highest grossing Malayalam film of the year. The satellite rights of the film was sold for an amount of ₹13 crore. [3]

The film was a commercial success. [4] [5] The film grossed ₹18 crore in 3 days in Kerala box office. It grossed over ₹20 crore at the box office. [6]

Critical reception

The film mostly opened to high positive reviews from the critics.

Sify wrote "2 Harihar Nagar is just what intelligent filmmaking is all about and, no wonder, this delightful comedy is a winner from the word go". [7] Rediff wrote: "The main reason 2 Harihar Nagar works is because the performance of the foursome that Lal is able to extract, giving us a sense of deja vu" and gave it 3 stars out of 5. [8] Indiaglitz wrote: "To Harihar Nagar definitely offers rib tickling comedy and delightful watch from the word goes, with apt mixing up of inexhaustible laughter and few moods of seriousness at intervals". [9]

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