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Directed by | Ali Akbar |
Screenplay by | Ali Akbar |
Story by | Ali Akbar |
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Cinematography | Raju V. Krishna |
Edited by | Ali Akbar |
Music by | Hari Venu Gopal |
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Running time | 151 min |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Senior Mandrake is a 2010 Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film directed by Ali Akbar. [1] It is a sequel to the 1997 film Junior Mandrake . Jagathy Sreekumar, Jagadish and Kalpana plays the lead roles. [2] [3] [4] The film bombed at the box office.
Kuttan has become enviably rich, and has disposed of the ill-fated statue, but soon it finds its way back to the money lender's doorstep. Without any further delay, the world starts crumbling around him, and he frantically scurries around to hand it over to some unfortunate soul.
The film received highly negative reviews criticizing direction, art direction, location, camera, lighting, background, effects, graphics, editing and very poor level of making. Rediff.com rated the film 1 out of 5 stars and wrote "Avoid Senior Mandrake" [5]
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