Godfather (1991 film)

Godfather
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Directed by	Siddique-Lal
Produced by	Appachan
Written by	Siddique-Lal
Starring	N. N. Pillai Thilakan Mukesh Kanaka Jagadish Innocent Philomina Siddique K. P. A. C. Lalitha Sankaradi Bheeman Raghu
Music by	S. Balakrishnan
Cinematography	Venu
Edited by	K.R. Gaurishankar T.R. Shekhar
Production company	Swargachithra
Distributed by	Swargachithra Release
Release date	15 November 1991 (1991-11-15)
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Godfather is a 1991 Indian Malayalam comedy-Drama film written and directed by Siddique-Lal and produced by Swargachitra Appachan. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of N. N. Pillai, Thilakan, Mukesh, Kanaka, Jagadish, Innocent, Philomina, Siddique, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Sankaradi, and Bheeman Raghu.

It won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Popular Film. The film was remade into Telugu as Peddarikam (1992) directed A. M. Rathnam starring Jagapati Babu and Sukanya. In 2004, Priyadarshan remade the film in Hindi as Hulchul. It was also remade in Kannada as Pandavaru with Jaggesh and Ramkumar. It was also remade in Marathi in 1993 as Ghayaal.

Anjooran (N. N. Pillai), and his four sons Balaraman (Thilakan), Swaminathan (Innocent), Premachandran (Bheeman Raghu) and Ramabhadran (Mukesh) are in severe enmity with the Anappara family. Anjooran's bitter hatred toward Anappara Achamma (Philomina) stems from events in the past, when the men of Anappara abducted Balaraman's fiancée and forced her to marry the eldest son of Achamma. The resulting series of events saw Anjooran's wife being killed, and him being sent to jail for avenging her by murdering Achamma's husband. Consequently, he develops a hatred toward all women, and their entry into his home is prohibited from then on.