Manikyakkallu

Manikyakkallu
Manikyakkallu promotional poster
Directed by	M. Mohanan
Written by	M. Mohanan
Produced by	A. S. Gireesh Lal
Starring	Prithviraj Sukumaran Samvrutha Sunil Nedumudi Venu Jagathy Sreekumar Jagadish
Cinematography	P. Sukumar
Edited by	Ranjan Abraham
Music by	M. Jayachandran
Release date	5 May 2011 (2011-05-05)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	₹2 crore (US$230,000)
Box office	₹11.25 crore (US$1.3 million)

Manikyakkallu is a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by M. Mohanan and starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, Samvrutha Sunil, and Nedumudi Venu in the lead roles. It is about a young teacher who arrives at a village school and tries to make a definite change in students' attitudes. The movie is loosely based on the life story ^[1] of the students and teachers of the Government Brennen Higher Secondary School, Thalassery. ^[2]

Cast

• Prithviraj Sukumaran as Vinayachandran Master ^[3]
• Samvrutha Sunil as Chandni Teacher
• Nedumudi Venu as Venu Mash, head master
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Karunakaran Karikalkuzhi
• Salim Kumar as Kunjuraman/Thampuraan
• Devan as Ramachandran Master, Vinayachandran's father
• Indrans as Sudhakaran
• Sai Kumar as District Education Officer
• Kottayam Nazeer as Pavanan Parimanam (Pavanan Master)
• Jagadish as Vasudevan Cheruvancherry a.k.a. V.D.C
• Manikandan Pattambi as Gopalan
• Anoop Chandran as Ahammed Master
• Sasi Kalinga as Sashi
• P. Sreekumar as Education Minister
• Anil Murali as Sreekkuttan Master a.k.a. S.K
• Manuraj as Satheeshan
• Narayanankutty as Eldhose
• Navneeth Madhavan as Manu
• K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Vilasini, Chandini's mother
• Bindu Panicker as Raakhi, Kurup's wife
• Shaalin Zoya as Mubeena
• Ambika Mohan as Savithri teacher
• Joby as Kunjachan
• Kochu Preman as Varghese
• Muthumanni as Sundari Teacher
• K. T. C. Abdulla as Mathi Mammad
• Kalabhavan Haneef as Radhakrishnan
• Balu Varghese as Basheer
• Anil Panachooran as Uthaman
• Suresh Krishna- extended Cameo Appearance
• Aju Varghese - Cameo Appearance
• Subeesh Sudhi - Cameo Appearance
• Kulappulli Leela- Cameo Appearance
• M. Jayachandran- Cameo Appearance
• Vishnu Unnikrishnan- Cameo Appearance

• Dhanapriya - Dhanya, Vinayachandran's student

Soundtrack

All lyrics are written by Anil Panachooran except where noted; all music is composed by M. Jayachandran

No.	Title	Lyrics	Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Chembarathi"		Shreya Ghoshal, Ravisankar
2.	"Melemanathe"	Ramesh Kavil	V. Devanand
3.	"Olakkuda"		Madhu Balakrishnan
4.	"Naadaayal"		Sherdin

References

1. "Success Story of Govt. Brennan School, Thalassery". The Hindu.
2. "Review: Manikyakkallu is mediocre fare".
3. "മാണിക്യകല്ല് ചിത്രീകരണം തുടങ്ങി" (in Malayalam). Malayalamcinemanews.com. Archived from the original on 8 May 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2011.

External links

• Production notes - The Hindu
• Article - IndiaGlitz
• Article - OneIndia
• Article - The Hindu
• Article - Thalassery Education