2 Harihar Nagar
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| Directed by | Lal |
| Produced by | P. N. Venugopal |
| Written by | Lal |
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Mukesh Jagadish Siddique Ashokan Lakshmi Rai |
| Music by | Alex Paul |
| Cinematography | Venu |
| Edited by | V. Sajan |
| Distributed by | Lal Releases (India) PJ Entertainments (Europe) |
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136 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Budget | ₹2 crore (US$300,000) |
| Box office | ₹20 crore (US$3.0 million) |
2 Harihar Nagar is a 2009 Malayalam film written and directed by Lal and produced by P. N. Venugopal. It is a sequel to In Harihar Nagar (1990) and prequel to In Ghost House Inn .The films chronicle the story of four very close friends Mahadevan (Mukesh), Govindan Kutty (Siddique), Appukuttan (Jagadish), and Thomas Kutty (Ashokan). The film is a blockbuster in the Kerala box office.
The movie starts with a flashback, in front of a church, in 1980 when the four main characters were children. This scene the beginning of their friendship. Thomas Philip (a.k.a. Thomas Kutty) loses money to a scam artist, who responds to his complaints with violence. He is rescued by the other three who respond to his calls of distress.
They then invite Thomas Kutty to join their group who, above all, vow never to cheat on one another. The scene is transitioned by the quote "Thomas kutty Vittodaa!" (Thomas kutty, time to run!) once the scam artist brings his friends to return the beating he got.
The movie transitions to the current time: Each of them are introduced again, 20 years later. Mahadevan is a Psychologist and an unhappily married father in the Middle East. Govindan Kutty is a Civil Engineer-cum-CEO who's happily married and settled in Kochi. Appukuttan (now Dr. Appukuttan Nair) is a dental specialist, living in Bombay who often fights with his wife and twins.
The prologue show them preparing to travel back to Harihar Nagar to attend Thomas Kutty's wedding; he, after years of "enjoying" his bachelor life, has decided to settle down and marry an orphan who belonged to the same church as him. The prologue also highlights that none of them have really changed from their flirtatious ways, despite being married.
After arriving at Harihar Nagar, they settle into Govindan Kutty's old house at Harihar Nagar. Disappointed at how life has become sombre after growing up, they decide to revert to their younger selves for the rest of the trip. To jump start their "trip back to youthfulness," Mahadevan suggests that they should create problems in the neighborhood: According to him, its only with problems that one becomes youthfully energetic.
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