Senior Mandrake

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Senior Mandrake
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Directed by Ali Akbar
Screenplay by Ali Akbar
Story by Ali Akbar
Produced by
  • Mummy Century
  • Shameer Thukalil
Starring
CinematographyRaju V. Krishna
Edited by Ali Akbar
Music byHari Venu Gopal
Release date
29 January 2010 (2010-01-29)
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.

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Plot

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.

Cast

Reception

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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