Happy Husbands (2010 film)

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Happy Husbands
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Movie poster
Directed by Saji Surendran
Screenplay byKrishna Poojappura
Story bySakthi Chidambaram
Based on Charlie Chaplin by Sakthi Chidambaram
Produced byMilan Jaleel
Starring
CinematographyAnil Nair
Edited by Manoj
Music by M. Jayachandran
Distributed byAnantha Vision
Release date
  • 14 January 2010 (2010-01-14)
Running time
162 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam
Budget₹6 crore
Box office₹12 crore

Happy Husbands is a 2010 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film directed by Saji Surendran and written by Krishna Poojappura. It is the remake of 2002 Tamil film Charlie Chaplin . [1] The film stars Jayaram, Jayasurya and Indrajith Sukumaran in title roles with Samvrutha Sunil, Bhavana, Rima Kallingal, Vandana Menon, and Suraj Venjaramoodu in supporting roles. The film completed a 150-day theatrical run.

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Plot summary

Mukundan Menon (Jayaram) runs a newspaper called Kerala Today. He is a normal husband who loves his wife Krishnendu (Bhavana) a lot, but she is too possessive about him. She thinks he is not very expressive about his feelings, and is always worried that he might one day fall for some other beautiful girl.

John Mathai (Jayasurya) is a photographer in Mukundan's publication. He was neither interested in girls nor keen to get married until he met Sereena (Vandana Menon).

Rahul (Indrajith Sukumaran) is just the opposite. He is extremely romantic and never comes home without some cute gifts for his wife, Shreya (Samvrutha Sunil). But she doesn't know that, behind her back, her darling husband is dying to flirt with every woman that he sees.

It is into the lives of these three couples that a bar singer, Diana (Rima Kallingal), arrives and things take some interesting turns. Diana is seeking to take revenge on Mukundan since it was on his article in Kerala Today that the Maharashtra court took as a petition and then banned the bar girls in Maharashtra, thus ruining Diana's profession.

Diana forcibly comes to Mukundan Menon's house one day with her evil intentions and that catches the eye of Krishnendu. To escape from trouble, Mukundan Menon says that she is John's wife. Later, when John, Mukundan and Rahul are talking about John's marriage proposal to Serena's father, Diana comes there by accident. Rahul says that she is Mukundan's wife and she is mentally imbalanced. So now Krishnendu and Shreya think Diana is John's wife, and Serneena believes that Diana is Mukundan's wife. At one time, all these people come together in Malaysia for a vacation. This leads to a lot of confusion among the wives and others and finally the wives realise the truth and thus leave their husbands. The husbands try many attempts to win their wives back but all their attempts go in vain. Finally, Diana makes them understand their husbands' love for them and that it was the fear of losing their wives that made them lie. The wives forgive their husbands.

Cast

Music

The soundtrack for this film was composed by M. Jayachandran.

  1. "Etho Poonilakalam" - Rashmi Vijayan
  2. "Happy Husbands" - Indrajith, Anand Narayan, Achu Rajamani
  3. "Take It Easy" - Achu Rajamani

Reception

Upon release, the film became a commercial success. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] It collected more than ₹2.5 crore distributor's share from Kerala in 75 days run. [7] The film completed a 150-day run in a theatre in Thiruvananthapuram. [8]

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