Annan Thampi

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Annan Thampi
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Directed by Anwar Rasheed
Written by Benny P. Nayarambalam
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Loganathan Srinivasan
Edited byDon Max
Music byOriginal songs:
Rahul Raj
Background score:
Alex Paul
Production
company
Marikar Films
Distributed byMarikar Release
Release date
  • 17 April 2008 (2008-04-17)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam
Budget₹3.78 crore [1]
Box officeest. ₹7.75 crore [2]

Annan Thampi is a 2008 Indian Malayalam-language action comedy film directed by Anwar Rasheed. The film stars Mammootty in dual role, along with an ensemble cast of Lakshmi Rai, Gopika, Janardhanan, Siddique, Rajan P. Dev, Suraj Venjaramood, Salim Kumar, Harisree Ashokan, Bose Venkat, Urmila Unni, Maniyanpilla Raju, Shivani Bhai, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Joju George, Anil Murali and Jayan Cherthala. The film was a avarge hit at the box office. [3] [4]

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Plot

Annan Thampi is the story of twin brothers, Appu and Achu. Appu is a bully who always finds himself in trouble whereas Achu is a naïve speech impaired. Their father Ravunni, a ballet artist, separates them due to sibling rivalry and Appu is sent to live with relatives in Pollachi. The astrologer Madhava Panicker says that the twins are going to be rivals for life and only way to avoid their fighting is to separate them. He says that Appu, should be sent to Pollachi. But when Appu refuses, Madhavan threatens to beat him. This drives Appu frustruated and he tries to kill the Madhavan by dropping a rock on his head. Madhavan is seriously injured and dies but when Appu gets caught by Madhavan's brother-in-law, he acts as Achu, which leads to him to be arrested for the crime even though he is innocent.

30 years later, Appu grows up to be a lovable gangster who falls for Thenmozhi, while Achu marries Lakshmi. Achu does not have kids. But soon major misunderstandings created by their enemies crop up and the brothers are baying for each other's blood. One day, Thenmozhi gets killed by someone and Achu gets framed and arrested, by a false complaint given by Achu's rival and enemy Bharathan. After getting released, Madhavan's sister reveals to Achu that Madhavan was actually killed by his brother-in-law as he tried to expose his wrongdoing to the police and Thenmozhi was actually killed by Appu's friend Govindan, who was Madhavan's son and while tring to rape her, he killed her by accident. She also revealed Govindan teamed up their enemies and made the problems as he thought Appu and Achu killed Madhavan. Eventually, Appu realises Govindan's true face while hitting Achu, thinking that he killed Thenmozhi. They team afterwards and defeats Govindan. Govindan gets arrested and Appu and Achu goes back to their house. Appu goes back to Pollachi and he gives his son to Achu and Lakshmi to bring him as their son.

Cast

Release

The film was released in 75 screens across Kerala. It was made on a budget of ₹3.78 crore. [1]

Box office

The film was a commercial success. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] The film collected ₹2 crore from 4 days at the Kerala box office. [15] In two weeks the film had a record distributors share of ₹3.12 crore from 75 screens and gross collection of ₹9.36 crore. [16] It grossed Rs. 30 million in 17 days. [17] It grossed ₹12.75 crore from five weeks. [2]

MG's from B & C stations - Rs 4. 22 crore, Overseas and Indian domestic - Rs 45 lakhs, Television Rights - Rs 95 lakhs, Telugu Remake Rights - Rs 35 lakhs × Total from all rights = Rs 5 . 97 crore # Profit in 25 days = Rs 2.19 crore. [1]

Music

Annan Thambi
Soundtrack album by
Rahul Raj
Released15 July 2009
RecordedSound Of Music, Chennai, India
Genre Soundtrack
Length19:16
Label Satyam Audios
Producer Rahul Raj
Rahul Raj chronology
Time
(2009)		Annan Thambi
(2009)		 Malabar Wedding
(2010)

All songs were composed by Rahul Raj.

Song titleSingers
"Chemban Kaale" Jassie Gift
"Ra Chaakanu Pekaali"Afsal, Pradeep Palluruthy, Jyotsna, Smitha Nishant
"Kanmaniye Punyam Nee" Vineeth Sreenivasan
"Kaikkudanna Pakarnnoru" Madhu Balakrishnan

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