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Ishtam is a film of genre Comedy directed by Sibi Malayil with Dileep

Ishtam (2001)

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Length 1h50
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy
Rating68% 3.4385053.4385053.4385053.4385053.438505

Ishtam is a 2001 Malayalam film directed by Sibi Malayil starring Dileep and Navya Nair. This was Navya's first movie.

Ishtam was later remade in Hindi as Mere Baap Pehle Aap by Priyadarshan.

Synopsis

Since his mother died twenty four years ago, Pavan (Dileep) lives with his widower father Krishnankutty Menon (Nedumudi Venu) who is struggling with his loneliness. Pavan meets Anjana (Navya Nair), who was his old college mate, who lives with her music teacher Sridevi, who is unmarried. It turns out that Krishnankutty Menon and Sridevi(Jayasudha) were actually sweethearts some years back. Pavan, Anjana, Narayanan(Innocent) and Pavan's brother(Sreenivasan) make a plan to join them after all these years. Pavan and Anjana also fall in love in the interim.

Actors

Dileep

(Pavan K. Menon)Navya Nair (Dhanya Veena)
Nedumudi Venu

(Krishnankutty Menon)Jayasudha Kapoor
Innocent

(Narayanan)
And :
Sreenivasan
Balachandra Menon
Jyothirmayi
Kalpana
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