Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (2010 film)

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Directed byVayalar Madhavan Kutty
Written byVayalar Madhavan
Produced byK. P. Varghese
Starring
Cinematography S. Saravanan
Edited by A. Sreekar Prasad
Music by Ilaiyaraaja
Release date
  • 12 February 2010 (2010-02-12) [1]
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is a 2010 fantasy Malayalam film written and directed by Vayalar Madhavan Kutty. [2] The lead pair in the film are Tinnu Anand and Divya Dutta.

Plot

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star has the story revolving around a eunuch, played by Tinnu Anand and her search of a boy, who she believes to be the successor to her dynasty.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star movie is based on the life of a child in a royal family headed by a matriarch who lives in the palace with her two daughters (Swetha and Pooja ). Swetha is married and has a son named Chintu while Pooja is an IPS Officer. Chintu is found to have a non curable physical deformity and it is proclaimed that he will grow as a eunuch in future. This news was a great shock to the family and they are forced to go after the spiritual remedies to rescue the child from growing into a eunuch. From the advise of the spiritual practitioners, the family of Chintu learns that he was born as a eunuch because of the curse of the Kuladevata and they were asked to perform poojas in the Haveli by a eunuch priest to ward off the evil. For performing the rites, they approach the head of the eunuchs named "Kakathiya" who is supposed to be 200 years old and deeply believes in powers and his ongoing research to transform eunuchs into powerful human beings. His belief was so high that one day he would become successful in his research works, transforming eunuchs to super human beings to rule the world.

Kakathiya sends his beloved disciple and priest Chela and his aide to the Haveli to perform the rites. At the palace, a new relationship sprouts between Chela and Chintu which threatens Swetha. Even after taking many security measures the relationship kept on growing between Chela and Chintu. A series of murders occurs and Pooja, the IPS officer is assigned to investigate and she founds that all those who were murdered were young virgins, which leads into strange rituals and practices.

Cast

Soundtrack

Malayalam version

  1. "Magic Journey" (version 1) - Jyotsna Radhakrishnan, Afsal, Manjari, Asha Menon, Vijay Yesudas
  2. "Hey You" - Vidhu Prathap
  3. "Maanathe Thaamare" - MG Sreekumar, [[Jyotsna Radhakrishnan Gireesh Puthenchery]]
  4. "Magic Journey" (version 2) - Manjari, Asha Menon, Bhavatharani
  5. "Ethetho Janmathil (Female)" - KS Chithra
  6. "Ethetho Janmathil (Male)" - KJ Yesudas
  7. "Twinkle Twinkle" - Bhavatharani, Chandrahassan
  8. "Chilanka Chilanka" - Afsal, Manjari, Asha Menon, Vijay Yesudas

Tamil version

Release

The film was completed in 2005 and was scheduled to be released in 2006, but was postponed. The film was then scheduled to be released on 12 February 2010, [2] but was not due to legal issues. [3]

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