Minnaminnikoottam

Minnaminnikoottam
File:Minnaminnikkottam.jpg
Directed by	Kamal
Produced by	Raghuram
Written by	Kamal
Starring	Meera Jasmine Narain Indrajith Jayasurya Roma Samvrutha Anoop Chandran Radhika
Music by	Bijibal
Cinematography	Manoj Pillai
Distributed by	Mulakupadam release
Release dates	11 July 2008 (2008-07-11)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Minnaminnikootam (2008) is a Malayalam film directed by Kamal. It stars Narain, Meera Jasmine, Indrajith, Jayasurya, Roma, Samvrutha, Anoop Chandran and Radhika in the lead roles. The film's score and soundtrack is composed by Bijibal. The film revolves around a group of youngsters working in an IT park.

Plot

Sidharth (Indrajith) and his wife Mumthas (Samvrutha Sunil) are two highly paid IT professionals who are trying to overcome the crisis of their love marriage. They have many friends; Manikkunju (Jayasurya), Abhilash (Narain), Charulatha (Meera Jasmine), Rose Mary (Roma) and Kalyani (Radhika). They visit Sidharthan’s flat for unwinding after work and consider their home an escape from stressful work. Some unusual things happen which change their lives. altogether.

Abhilash and Charu is a couple who argues and fights and at the end of these simple fights, they come to the home of Sidhu and Momu for chilling out. Charu was living a life that was surrounded only by her father from when she was 5 years old. A wedding meet between the families of Abhi and Charu causes Charu's father to start drinking after 15 years. This causes a major break up between Charu and Abhi. On a trip to Chennai, for Mani's and Rose's marriage and also for Abhi's marriage with his father's friend's daughter, Charu runs away to Bangalore and later moves abroad.

The story returns from flash back when Charu leaves for Bangalore. The flashback had started when Charu read an email from Kalyani informing about her marriage. Charu attends the marriage and there she meets the old members of her "Minnaminnikootam". However, none of them shows any friendship with her. She returns to the airport and Abhi come's and sits beside her. He asks for them to go for a drive and takes her to Sidhu's house where she is emotionally greeted by her friends and receives the message of surprise. Abhi was never going to marry anyone else. He was planning on marrying Charu even if he didn't have her permission.

Cast

• Narain as Abhilash
• Meera Jasmine as Charulatha
• Indrajith as Sidhaarth
• Jayasurya as Manikunju
• Roma as Rosemary
• Samvrutha as Mumtaz a.k.a. Mummu
• Anoop Chandran as Partha Saradhi a.k.a. Paachan
• Radhika as Kalyani
• Saikumar as Charulatha's father
• Janardhanan as Kaliparamban, Charulatha's father's friend
• Mamukkoya as Kunjikannan, Charulatha's father's friend
• T. G. Ravi as Aalikka, Charulatha's father's friend
• Balachandran Chullikkadu as Appukuttan Maash, Charulatha's father's friend
• Ambika Mohan as Abhilash's mother

Soundtrack

The soundtrack features songs composed by Bijibal, with lyrics by Anil Panachooran.

• "We Are in Love" — Karthik, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Sayonara Philip, T. R. Soumya
• "Mizhi Tammil" — Ranjith Govind, Swetha Mohan
• "Mizhi Tammil" — Swetha Mohan
• "Taara Jaalam" — Afsal, Sujatha, Ganesh Sundaram, Cicily, Rakhi R. Nath, Raghuram;
• "Kadalolam" — Manjari
• "Minnaminnikoottam" — K. Jayachandran, Anitha

Reception

The movie did reasonably well particularly among young audience. However, in an interview with Manorama in 2015, director Kamal classified this movie as one of the movies he wished he didnt work on.

External links

• Minnaminnikkoottam at IMDb
• http://www.nowrunning.com/Movie/?movie=5252
• http://www.123.com/movie/2008/regional/may/minnaminnekoottam/preview/index.htm
• http://www.musicindiaonline.com/music/malayalam/s/movie_name.9787
• http://sify.com/movies/imagegallery/galleryDetail.php?hcategory=13733817&hgallery=14687659