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Chandralekha is a film of genre Romance directed by Priyadarshan with Mohanlal
Chandralekha (1997)
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Add to a movie listChandralekha is a 1997 Malayalam film directed by Priyadarshan and produced by Fazil. This brought back after a couple of years the old successful comedy combo of Mohanlal and Sreenivasan, which was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This film is the fourth record grosser film from Priyadarshan-Mohanlal team, after Thalavattam (1986), Chithram (1988), and Kilukkam (1991). The name "Chandralekha" is a combination of the names of the two heroines in the story, 'Chandra' and 'Lekha'.
Synopsis
Appukuttan Nair or 'Appu' (Mohanlal) is a struggling unemployed youth who arrives in Mumbai to meet his sister and brother-in-law (Augustine). His father has been falsely implicated in a bank fraud and wants to sell his ancestral property to pay towards the litigation. For that he needs his sister's approval, but is abused and turned away by his brother-in-law. Disappointed, Appu seeks out his old pal Nooruddin or 'Noor' (Sreenivasan), who is working in a fruit juice vending shop in Mumbai. Noor himself is a hapless uneducated youth working for his uncle Beeran (Mamukkoya), who is a treacherous money lender, with a hope to marry his daughter Maimoona. They plan to open a paint shop but need 1.25 lakh Rupees to rent a shop as prerequisite to get a bank loan. With no other way in sight, they swindle Beeran out of 1.25 lakh Rupees. Appukuttan then tries to get the loan sanctioned but he is rebuffed by a new Bank manager Varghese (Maniyanpilla Raju) who had taken charge by then.Actors
Mohanlal
(Appukuttan Nair)
Sreenivasan
(Nooruddheen)
Sukanya
(Chandra Varma)
Pooja Batra
(Lekha)
Nedumudi Venu
(Udhaya Varma)
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