Hariharan Pilla Happy Aanu

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Hariharan Pilla Happy Aanu
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Directed byVishwanathan
Screenplay bySunil Impress
P. S. Kumar
Story bySunil Impress
Produced byJohny Sagariga
Starring Mohanlal
Jyothirmayi
Cinematography Anandakuttan
Edited byL. Bhoominathan
Music by Stephen Devassy
Production
company
Dickle Cinemas
Release date
  • 27 November 2003 (2003-11-27)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Hariharan Pilla Happy Aanu is a 2003 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film directed by Vishwanathan, starring Mohanlal and Jyothirmayi. This was Vishwanathan's directorial debut, and the first film for Stephen Devassy as composer.

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Plot

Hariharan Pillai runs a construction company with his uncle Velappan. He construct a house for the rich money lender Sathyapalan who does not compensate then after completing the house. Sathyapalan's daughter Kavya who initially dislikes Hariharan Pillai. However she eventually fall love for him. Hari also has to take care of his sister Latha who is in love with Nikhil. How Hariharan Pillai sorts out all of this issues and gets Kavya form the rest of the story.

Cast

Production

The bike with unusual wheels that was featured in C.I.D. Moosa (2003) was featured in this film. [1]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by debutante Stephen Devassy, who took a sabbatical after working on this film. [2] [3] Newcomer Rajeev Alunkal wrote all the lyrics. [4] [5] Alunkal recalled in a 2015 interview that it was risky for a newcomer to pen all the lyrics and how the producer of the film, Johnny Sagarika, took that risk. [4]

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Thingal Nilaavil" P. Jayachandran, Sujatha Mohan 5:13
2."Munthirvaave" K. J. Yesudas 4:25
3."Ambaadippoove Nillu Nillu" K. S. Chithra 4:40
4."Thallu Thallu" M. G. Sreekumar 3:40
5."Pularikal Chirakaniyum"Jimmy Kalabhavan4:40
6."Mundhiri Vaave" Unni Menon  

Release and reception

The film released shortly after Mohanlal's box office success Balettan (2003) and Jyothirmayi's Anyar (2003). [6] [7] The film released in November 2003 coinciding with Ramadan. [6] Abhijath of The Hindu opined that "The film begins well, while in the second half, it loses tempo". [6] To prevent piracy, the film was released in 50 centres. [6] Sagarika dropped his shelved project Chakram with Mohanlal and Dileep after the film's failure. [8] Mohanlal went on to play a similar role in Vamanapuram Bus Route (2004), which was almost removed from theatres due to the box office failure of this film. [9] [10] [11]

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