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Nakhakshathangal is a film of genre Drama with Monisha Unni

Nakhakshathangal (1986)

Nakhakshathangal
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Nakhakshathangal (Malayalam: നഖക്ഷതങ്ങള്‍) is a 1986 Malayalam film directed by Hariharan, written by M. T. Vasudevan Nair, and starring Monisha, Vineeth and Saleema. The lead actress, Monisha, won the distinguished National Film Award for Best Actress for her role, that made her the first actress to get a National Award for her debut film and the youngest actress to achieve the feat. The film was remade in Tamil as Pookkal Vidum Thoothu.

Synopsis

The story is about Ramu (Vineeth), a 16-year-old boy who is staying with his annoying uncle, who gets angry and often treats Ramu like a slave. On a trip to the pilgrim town of Guruvayoor with his uncle (played by Thilakan), Ramu meet 15-year-old Gowri (Monisha), who has come with her grandmother. Both find love, and after sharing a few tender talks and moments depart without a clue that they will meet again. When back Ramu runs away from his uncle and lands up in the city with his neighbor namboothiri (played by P Jayachandran). As fate would have it, Ramu and Gowri meet again. Good conduct and intelligence of Ramu gets noticed and he is asked by a lawyer to stay in the house, where Gowri is a maid. The lawyer's deaf and dumb daughter Lakshmi (Saleema) gets attracted to Ramu and the lawyer fixes the marriage without asking Ramu. The triangle love story leads to a sad ending.

Actors

Monisha Unni

(Gouri)Vineeth

(Ramu)P. Jayachandran

(Neighbor Namboothiri)Saleema

(Lakshmi)Thilakan

(Uncle)
And :
Kaviyoor Ponnnamma
Kuthiravattam Pappu
K. N. Jagannatha Varma
Bahadoor
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