Spanish Masala

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Spanish Masala
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Lal Jose
Written by Benny P. Nayarambalam
Produced byNoushad
Starring
Cinematography Loganathan Srinivasan
Edited by Ranjan Abraham
Music by Vidyasagar
Production
company
Big Screen Productions
Distributed byPlaza Group Release
Release date
  • 20 January 2012 (2012-01-20)
[1]
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam
Box office₹4.60 crore (US$550,000) [2]

Spanish Masala is a 2012 Indian romantic comedy film directed by Lal Jose. The film stars Dileep, Daniela Zacherl, Kunchacko Boban, Biju Menon, Javier Sandoval and Nelson Sooranad. With Nivin Pauly and Archana Kavi In Cameo appearance.In the film, Charlie, an impressionist works at an Indian restaurant in Spain, he becomes close to his employer's blind daughter by imitating her lost boyfriend's voice and tries to reunite them. Spanish Masala was released on 20 January 2012 to positive reviews from critics but the film was not commercial successful at box office. [3] It has since developed a cult status.

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Plot

The story is set in Spain, and revolves around Charlie, an illegal immigrant stranded in Madrid. To make things worse, he is conversant only in Malayalam. He gets a job as a cook in an Indian restaurant, as he has some experience in running a roadside eatery in his homeland, run by an expatriate, Majid. In the restaurant he is assigned with the task of serving up various types of dosa and, he comes up with a local variant named Spanish Masala. This turns out to be his passport to employment in the home of an ex-diplomat, who had earlier served in India.

There he meets the diplomat's daughter Camilla, who is visually impaired. She becomes a big time fan of Charlie's Spanish Masala. She is not on talking terms with her father, who is believed to have killed her Indian lover, Rahul, the son of her Malayali nanny, from whom she has learnt to speak Malayalam. Later Camilla starts to get closer to Charlie. Since he can imitate impersonate voices, one servant Pappan leads him to imitate Rahul's voice and keep Rahul's memory alive.

After some days, she recovers and her eyesight returns, but now her father is no more. A strange incident occurs when Rahul arrives for his funeral. One day, as per Menon's instruction, Charlie cleans Señor's (Camilla's dad) room. He finds a CD which Señor had seen before he died, and from that he finds out that Rahul was sent to Portugal to avoid the relationship between Camilla and Rahul, by paying him money by Señor. Again Rahul is spared by Charlie.

As it goes, one day Menon enters a bar where he sees Rahul and another girl dancing together. He went to interrogate about it by following him, when he saw Rahul sitting with some goons and the girl. Later he researched it, when he discovered it wasn't a good life for Rahul in Portugal. He sold the factory which Señor offered him and he had taken a loan from some goons for gambling and could not repay them. Camilla heard about it and she felt sorrow that she was keeping a crooked lover in her mind. Later Camilla and Menon return to Kerala, India to fix marriage between Charlie and Camilla.

Cast

Production

Most of the film was shot in Madrid, with one song shot in Vienna, and the remainder scenes in Cochin and Alappuzha districts of Kerala. [4] [ better source needed ] The film portrays several Spanish arts, festivals and sports such as bullfighting, flamenco dance and La Tomatina which was the real la tomatina festival shot for the first time in Indian cinema. [5] Daniela Zacherl, the female lead, is an Austrian model. [6] [7] She replaced Amy Jackson who had to drop out due to conflicts with Ekk Deewana Tha . [8]

Music

Spanish Masala
Soundtrack album by
Vidyasagar
Released13 December 2011 (2011-12-13)
Recorded Varsha Vallaki Studios
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length24:26
Label Satyam Audios
Producer Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Thambi Vettothi Sundaram
(2011)		Spanish Masala
(2011)		 Ordinary
(2012)

The audio launch was done on 14 December at IMA Hall in Kochi. Song composer was Vidyasagar, the lyrics are penned by R. Venugopal. The soundtrack was rated 6/10 by Music Aloud. [9]

No.SongSingers
1"Akkare Ninnoru" Vineeth Sreenivasan, Sujatha Mohan
2"Aareyuthiyaavo" Karthik, Shreya Ghoshal
3"Hayyo Hayyo" Yazin Nizar, Franco
4"Irulil Oru" Udit Narayan, Vidyasagar
5"Irulil Oru" Karthik, Udit Narayan
5"Omana"Nikita Balasubramanian

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