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Directed by | Sibi Malayil |
Produced by | Mohanlal |
Written by | A. K. Lohithadas |
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Mohanlal Nedumudi Venu Gauthami Sreenivasan Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair Mamukkoya |
Music by | Raveendran |
Cinematography | Anandakuttan |
Edited by | L. Bhoominathan |
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Distributed by | Seven Arts Films |
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150 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
His Highness Abdullah is a 1990 Indian Malayalam musical thriller drama film written by A. K. Lohithadas and directed by Sibi Malayil. It stars Mohanlal, Nedumudi Venu, Gauthami, Sreenivasan, Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair, and Mamukkoya. It was produced by Mohanlal under the banner of Pranavam Arts. The music was composed by Raveendran.
The story follows Abdullah (Mohanlal), a low-life qawwali singer in Bombay, who is hired by members of a wealthy royal family to assassinate their family head, Maharaja Udayavarma (Nedumudi Venu). Abdullah enters the royal palace under the disguise of a Brahmin classical singer, Ananthan Namboothiri, and tries to use this cover to assassinate the king.
His Highness Abdullah was the highest-grossing Malayalam film of the year. Nedumudi Venu won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Maharaja Udayavarma. Raveendran won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director, and M. G. Sreekumar won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the song Naadaroopini. The concept of the film was later used in the 2009 Tamil movie Aadhavan, 2015 Kannada comedy Raja Rajendra and the 2016 Bengali movie Shikari.