Chronic Bachelor
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| Directed by | Siddique |
| Produced by | Fazil |
| Written by | Siddique |
| Starring |
Mammootty Mukesh Rambha Bhavana Indraja Innocent |
| Music by | Deepak Dev |
| Distributed by | PJ Entertainments |
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Release date
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14 April 2003 |
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Running time
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165 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Chronic Bachelor is a 2003 Malayalam romantic comedy drama film about the life of Sathyaprathapan (known as SP), a bachelor as mentioned in the title. The film was written and directed by Siddique. It features Mammootty, Mukesh, Rambha, Bhavana, Indraja, Innocent and others. Jyothika was signed as the lead actress but later was replaced by Rambha. The movie was produced by Malayalam director Fazil. The film was a commercial success.
It was later remade in Tamil as Engal Anna starring Vijaykanth, Prabhu Deva, Namitha and Vadivelu and in Telugu as Kushi Kushiga with Jagapati Babu.
The film opens with a flashback showing the family feud between families of Sathyaprathapan (Mammootty) and Bhavani (Indraja). Sathyaprathapan's sister and Bhavani's cousin are in love. The murder of Bhavani's cousin Vishnu, is wrongly accused on Balagangadharan (Lalu Alex), father of Sathyaprathapan. Sathyaprathapan's sister commits suicide and Sathyaprathapan turns against his father. He starts to help Bhavani's family and mortgages his own house to finance her factory. A love develops between Sathyaprathapan and Bhavani. But Bhavani's greedy father wants to destroy Sathyaprathapan's family and tries to take their home. That is when Parameshwara Maman (Sathyaprathapan's uncle) shows up, Sathyaprathapan's mom requests Maman to prove Balagangadharan's innocence. Parameshwara Mama and Sathyaprathapan finds Kuruvilla who witnessed the murder being committed by Bhavani's father goons. Meanwhile we see that Sathyaprathapan's mom faints and dies in the hospital. While in the hospital, his mom tells how Balagangadharan had a different wife and he should ask them forgiveness. He storms into Bhavani's house and accuses her dad, also trying to make her understand the truth but she doesn't believe him and stands by her father. Then Sathyaprathapan says he doesn't love her any more and vows that he will never trust a woman by remaining a chronic bachelor forever.
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