Manjupoloru Penkutti

2004 Indian film
  • Amrita Prakash
  • Lalu Alex
  • Suresh Krishna
  • Jayakrishnan
  • Bhanupriya
CinematographyP. SukumarEdited byK. RajagopalMusic byAlphons Joseph
Production
company
Dream Team Productions
Distributed bySwargachitra
Release date
  • 23 July 2004 (2004-07-23)
CountryIndiaLanguageMalayalam

Manjupoloru Penkutti (transl. A girl like snow) is a 2004 Indian Malayalam-language thriller film directed by Kamal and written by Kalavoor Ravikumar. The plot is about a teenage girl who is physically abused numerous times by her stepfather. It stars Amrita Prakash, Lalu Alex, Suresh Krishna, Jayakrishnan, and Bhanupriya. Alphons Joseph composed the music.[1] The film was shot in Kochi and Paris.

Plot

Nidhi is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives with her mother, Arundhathi, her stepfather, Mohan, and her 10-year-old sister, Kani. Later, she meets a neighbour, Manuel, who treats her as his own daughter. She is friends with Sandeep who has a crush on her. Nidhi had been abused by Mohan three years earlier and plans to kill her stepfather.

Cast

  • Amrita Prakash as Nidhi S. Menon
  • Jayakrishnan as Sandeep Panicker
  • Lalu Alex as Manuel
  • Suresh Krishna as Mohan
  • Bhanupriya as Arundhathi
  • Poornima Anand as Shalini
  • Shamna Kasim as Dhanya
  • Vijeesh as Geevarghese
  • Sanusha as Kani S. Menon
  • Meera Krishna as Anitha Panicker
  • Deepika Mohan
  • Nisha Sarang as Nidhi's teacher
  • Bindu Ramakrishnan as Sandeep's grandmother

Music

The film's music was composed by Alphons Joseph.

  1. "Am I Dreaming": Sayanora Philip
  2. "Ithile Nee Enthe Vannilla": Jyotsna, Karthik
  3. "Ithile Nee Enthe Vannilla" (version 2): Jyotsna, Alphonse Joseph
  4. "Kai Niraye Kadam Tharumo": Sujatha Mohan, Ganga
  5. "Kashmera Sandhye": Ganga Shankar Mahadevan
  6. "Kashmera Sandhye" (male): Shankar Mahadevan
  7. "Manju Poloru Penkanavu": P. Jayachandran, George Peter, Vidhu Prathap

Reception

The film was accepted by the critics but failed at the box office.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Back to business"
  2. ^ "New talents make their mark in the tinsel town"

External links

  • Manjupoloru Penkutti at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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