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Peruchazhi is a film of genre Comedy directed by Arun Vaidyanathan with Mohanlal
Peruchazhi (2014)
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Add to a movie listPeruchazhi (English: Bandicota) is a 2014 Malayalam-language Indian political satire film written and directed by Tamil filmmaker Arun Vaidyanathan. The film originally scripted in Tamil was translated to Malayalam with the dialogue co-written by Ajayan Venugopalan. It features Mohanlal in the lead role, while Mukesh, Ragini Nandwani, Vijay Babu, Baburaj, Aju Varghese feature in supporting roles. The film is produced by Vijay Babu and Sandra Thomas under the banner Friday Film House and distributed by Friday Tickets and Fox Star Studios. The film released on August 29, 2014 in 500 screens worldwide, making it the largest release for a Malayalam film. The background score and music were composed by Arrora. The film used the Auro 11.1 sound format.
The film is about how Jagannathan a young politician from India ends up being the chief political adviser to the California state Governor's election campaign and his use of tactics standard of Indian politics to win the election.
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In California, the Republican party governor candidate John Kory (Sean James Sutton) is striving to raise his dismal ratings. Sunny Kurishingal (Vijay Babu), the chief campaign officer of John Kory, is failing with his campaign strategies and runs out of ideas to ensure Kory's victory. Sunny is forced to consult a third person's advise and calls Francis Kunjappan (Mukesh), a PWD minister and his native friend in Kerala, for hiring any good political consultant for devising campaign strategies. Kunjappan, initially reluctant, later recommends his friend and political competitor Jagannathan (Mohanlal), thus also hoping to get rid of him as he is a political threat to his ministerial position. Jagannathan, a young politician and a sports enthusiastic, is illiterate in English but has an inborn talent to solve the gravest of issues in the most prudent manner. Even Francis had consulted him for solving his toughest problems. But Francis thinks that Jaganathan’s unorthodox ideas will fail miserably in the US. Kunjappan meets Jagannathan and offers him the job and a remuneration of ₹30 crores which is sufficient to raise Jagannathan's dream project, a sports academy in Kerala. Jagannathan takes up the assignment and flies to the US, together with his assistants Pottakuzhi Jabbar (Baburaj) and Vayalar Varkey (Aju Varghese).Actors
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