Amar Akbar Anthony (2015 film)

Amar Akbar Anthony
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അമർ അക്ബർ അന്തോണി
Directed by	Nadirshah
Produced by	Dr. Zachariah Thomas Alwin Antony
Screenplay by	Bibin George Vishnu Unnikrishnan
Starring	Prithviraj Jayasurya Indrajith Namitha Pramod
Music by	Songs: Nadirshah Background score: Bijibal
Cinematography	Sujith Vaassudev
Edited by	John Kutty
Production company	United Global Media Entertainment Ananya Films (in association with)
Distributed by	Thameens Release
Release date	16 October 2015 (2015-10-16)
Running time	144 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	₹6.70 crore (US$1.0 million)
Box office	est. ₹52 crore (US$7.7 million)

Amar Akbar Anthony is a 2015 Indian Malayalam-language musical comedy film directed by Nadirshah. It stars Prithviraj, Jayasurya, and Indrajith in lead roles, while Namitha Pramod appears in the female lead. The screenplay was written by Bibin George and Vishnu Unnikrishnan. Sony Music released the film's soundtrack label. The song tracks were composed by Nadirshah himself, while the background score was by Bijibal.

Amar Akbar Anthony marked the directorial debut of Nadirshah. The film was completed in 65 days with a production cost of ₹6.70 crore (US$1.0 million).Sony Music India released the trailer on 5 October 2015. The film released on 16 October 2015. The film was remade in Kannada as John Jani Janardhan.

Faizal (Asif Ali), born and bred Kochi bike-stunt artist, gets injured during one of his bike stunts and gets hospitalised. He is admitted in the general ward, and there he meets other patients and begins to chat to know each other. His ward mates queries how he fell. Faizal explains the reason by narrating a story about his three best friends Amar (Prithviraj), Akbar (Jayasurya) and Anthony (Indrajith). Amar, Akbar and Anthony lives in a slum area in Fort Kochi, three of them are from poor families.

Amar is children's mini-kart driver in a shopping mall and is a lecher with a number of unsuccessful loves. Other than him he has four members in his family. His father Narayanan (Sasi Kalinga) is a security officer of a roadside ATM counter, his mother (K. P. A. C. Lalitha) is an expanding colony marriage broker and Resmiya (Srinda Ashab), an orphan women who lives together in their house with her daughter Fathima/Pathumma (Baby Meenakshi) after her husband flees away with her gold ornaments, for the marriage was arranged by Amar's mother.