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Mukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu is a film of genre Comedy directed by Priyadarshan with Mohanlal
Mukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu (1988)
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Add to a movie listMukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu (English: Mukundan, Sumithra is Calling) (1988) is a Malayalam film directed by Priyadarshan, starring Mohanlal, Sreenivasan, and Ranjini.It is a remake of the 1983 Hindi film Katha (English: Story) (Hindi: कथा ) is a film by Sai Paranjpye featuring Naseeruddin Shah, Farooq Shaikh and Deepti Naval in the main roles. The film is about the daily lives of people living in a Mumbai chawl.[2]
Synopsis
Mukundan K. Kartha (Mohanlal) is a simple man, with a decent job, whose old college classmate and friend Viswanath (Sreenivasan) comes to meet him. He lives in a small residential colony in Chennai, where there's a water shortage and the people struggle to make ends meet. The damsel of the colony, Sumithra (Ranjini) likes Mukundan. Viswanath is a fraud and con-man and he makes Mukundan and the people of his colony believe that he is an influential person and classmate of the Public Works Department minister. He makes the people believe that, due to his influence, water pipes arrived at the colony.Actors
Mohanlal
(Mukundan K. Kartha)
Sreenivasan
(Viswanath)
Ranjini
(Sumithra)
Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair
(Menon)
K. P. A. C. Lalitha
(Sumithra's mother)
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