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Little John is a film of genre Drama directed by Srinivasa Rao Singeetham with Bentley Mitchum

Little John (2001)

Little John
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Length 2h6
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Fantasy,    Action
Rating51% 2.572642.572642.572642.572642.57264

Little John is a 2001 trilingual fantasy film directed and co-written by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao. Bentley Mitchum and Jyothika play the lead roles with Anupam Kher, Prakash Raj and Nassar playing supporting roles. The film released in Tamil, Hindi and English with Pravin Mani composing the music for the project. The film opened to above average reviews and did moderate business at the box office.

Synopsis

The film opens with an historical story in which the goddess Parvathi while performing dance with her husband Lord Shiva drops her nose stud named "Mookuththi" on the Earth and because of which a temple was raised named "Mookuththi Amman temple" in Tamil Nadu. The nose stud has many powers in it and so an evil powered soul named "Kaalabhairav"(Prakash Raj) waits one thousand years patiently to capture it.

Actors

Bentley Mitchum

(John McKenzie)Jyothika

(Vani Vishwanath)Anupam Kher

(Swamiji)Nassar
Prakash Raj

(Kala Bhairav)
And :
Mohan Raman
Mayilsamy
Aanjjan Srivastav
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