Kalyanaraman is a 2002 Malayalam romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...

 directed by Shafi

Shafi (director)

Shafi is an Indian film director who mainly works in Malayalam cinema, known for his comedy films. He has also directed a Tamil film. The director Rafi of the Rafi Mecartin duo is his elder brother. His well known films include Kalyanaraman , Thommanum Makkalum , Mayavi , and Chocolate...

 starring Dileep

Dileep (actor)

Dileep is an Indian film actor, mimicry artist and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema.Dileep started his career as a mimicry artist in the Cochin Kalabhavan troupe. He later started his film career as an assistant director to Kamal with the film Vishnu Lokam...

 and Navya Nair

Navya Nair

Dhanya Nair , better known by her stage name Navya Nair, is an Indian actress who works in Malayalam, Tamil, and Kannada films. She has won the honour of Kalathilakam in the Alappuzha District Schools Youth Festival.- Personal life :...

. The film was remade in Telugu

Telugu language

Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...

 as Kalyanaramudu(2003) starring Venu

Venu

The venu is a bamboo transverse flute used in the Carnatic music of South India. Although it is often called Carnatic flute or simply flute in English, venu is the instrument's ancient Sanskrit name...

, Suman

Suman (actor)

Suman is a South Indian Telugu film actor. He played action hero and romantic hero in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films during the 1980s. After a long while away from cinema, he returned to acting in Tamil films in 2007, starring in S. Shankar's Sivaji: The Boss with Rajinikanth. He has also...

, Prabhudeva and Nikita Thukral

Nikita Thukral

Nikita Thukral is an Indian film actress and model, who has acted in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films. She is best known for her item number "Kodana Kodi" in Saroja.-Early life:...

.

Synopsis

Thekkedathu Ramankutty (Dileep

Dileep (actor)

Dileep is an Indian film actor, mimicry artist and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema.Dileep started his career as a mimicry artist in the Cochin Kalabhavan troupe. He later started his film career as an assistant director to Kamal with the film Vishnu Lokam...

) is a marriage organizer. He meets Gauri (Navya Nair

Navya Nair

Dhanya Nair , better known by her stage name Navya Nair, is an Indian actress who works in Malayalam, Tamil, and Kannada films. She has won the honour of Kalathilakam in the Alappuzha District Schools Youth Festival.- Personal life :...

) while arranging the marriage for her sister Radhika (Jyothirmayi), daughter of a family friend Ambattu Thampi (Lalu Alex

Lalu Alex

- Early life :Lalu Alex was born in a Jacobite Christian family in Piravom near Muvattupuzha, Kerala.-Career:He started his career as a supporting actor in early 1980s. He has started his career in supporting as well as in villanoeus roles in I. V...

). Radhika's fiancee does not turn up for the marriage. Ramankutty suggests that his brother Dr. Sivadas (Bobby Alumoodan) will be ready for the marriage and Dr. Sivadas and Radhika gets married on the same day itself. Ramankutty and Gauri fall in love. But on the day of their engagement, Radhika dies in a kitchen fire accident.

When Thampi visits the astrologer Meppattu Thirumeni (Thilakan

Thilakan

Surendranatha Thilakan , known mononymously as Thilakan, is an Indian actor who works in Malayalam cinema and theatre. He was awarded Padma Shri on 25 January 2009.- Theatre:...

) to see the horoscope match, he tells them that women married into the Thekkedathu family are fated to die young. Thampi, scared for his only remaining daughter's life, asks Ramankutty to back out of the marriage. Saddened and yet wanting to do the right thing, Ramankutty calls off the wedding on the pretense of not being comfortable with Gauri's close relations with her cousin Unni (Kunchako Boban). Devastated by this allegation, Gauri backs out of the marriage, only to find the truth later. She runs out in search of Ramankutty and gets involved in a road accident on the way. She is rushed to the hospital and while still battling for life, she wishes that Ramankutty tie the wedding knot before her operation. Ramankutty ties the knot, fearing the worst. Miraculously, Gauri comes out alive.

The story is told in flashback by an aged Ramankutty who bids farewell to his spellbound teenage audience at the temple, and joins his wife Gauri in lighting the lamp.

Cast

• Dileep
  Dileep (actor)
  Dileep is an Indian film actor, mimicry artist and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema.Dileep started his career as a mimicry artist in the Cochin Kalabhavan troupe. He later started his film career as an assistant director to Kamal with the film Vishnu Lokam...
  
   as Thekkedathu Ramankutty
• Navya Nair
  Navya Nair
  Dhanya Nair , better known by her stage name Navya Nair, is an Indian actress who works in Malayalam, Tamil, and Kannada films. She has won the honour of Kalathilakam in the Alappuzha District Schools Youth Festival.- Personal life :...
  
   as Gauri
• Lal
  Lal (actor)
  Paul Michael , better known by his stage name Lal, is an Indian film director, script writer, actor, producer, and film distributor....
  
   as Thekkedathu Achuthankutty
• Lalu Alex
  Lalu Alex
  - Early life :Lalu Alex was born in a Jacobite Christian family in Piravom near Muvattupuzha, Kerala.-Career:He started his career as a supporting actor in early 1980s. He has started his career in supporting as well as in villanoeus roles in I. V...
  
   as Ambattu Thampi
• Kunchako Boban as Unni
• Jyothirmayi as Radhika
• Boban Alumoodan as Dr. Sivadas
• Innocent as Ponjikkara Kesavan
• Salim Kumar as Pyari
• T.P. Madhavan
• Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri as Thekkedathu Gopalakrishnan
• Thilakan
  Thilakan
  Surendranatha Thilakan , known mononymously as Thilakan, is an Indian actor who works in Malayalam cinema and theatre. He was awarded Padma Shri on 25 January 2009.- Theatre:...
  
   as Meppattu Thirumeni
• Kalaranjini
  Kalaranjini
  Kalaranjini is an Indian actress and classical dancer who started her career in the early 1980s. She is the elder sister of actress Urvashi and actress Kalpana.Filmography=...
  
   as Saraswathy
• Kochu Preman as U. P. P. Menon
• Jose Pellissery
  Jose Pellissery
  Jose Pellissery was an Indian film and theatre actor.-Biography:As an actor in Malayalam cinema, he played supporting roles in about 100 films. His 15-year film career included roles in such movies as Aadhaaram, Akashadoothu, Nadodi, and Ghazal.Pellissery was a partner of the theatre company...
  
  
• Siddique
  Siddique (actor)
  Siddique is a Malayalam film actor, producer, and television compere. He started his film career doing comedy roles and later performed in a variety of roles.-Early career:...
  
   as Doctor
• Narayanankutty
• Subbalakshmi as Karthyani

Trivia

There is a reference to the popular Malayalam sms hero Tintumon in this movie. Ponjikkara, the character played by Innocent claims in a scene that in his previous birth he was Tintumon and died due to diabetes when he was studying in L.K.G at Little Flower Convent Girls High School, Nadathara.

External links

• Kalyanaraman at Oneindia
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