Janapriyan

Janapriyan
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Directed by	Boban Samuel
Produced by	Mammen John Reena M John
Written by	Krishna Poojapura
Starring	Jayasurya Manoj K. Jayan Bhama Sarayu Lalu Alex
Music by	Rinil Gowtham
Cinematography	Pradeep Nair
Edited by	V. T. Sreejith
Production company	Spot Light Visions
Distributed by	Kalasangam Release
Release date	20 May 2011 (2011-05-20)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Janapriyan (Malayalam: ജനപ്രിയൻ, English: The Popular One) is a 2011 Malayalam romantic comedy film directed by Boban Samuel, starring Jayasurya and Bhama in the lead roles. The film was released on 20 May 2011, with highly positive reviews from audiences.

The film starts off with Vaishakan (Manoj K Jayan) a man aspiring to be a film director, telling his dreadful story to a film producer named Achayan (Jagathy Sreekumar). He gets told from Achayan that Vaishakan's story is not worthy of being a film produced by him.

Then he goes to his full-time job as an office worker in a subdivision of a revenue district, where he gets informed by the head (Lalu Alex) of the complaints of him not submitting files said by the collector. Vasishakan gets told that he will receive a memo by the head, in which he insists to get laid off so he can get more time focusing on his direction and films. Also, that he is only in the office because of his father who told him to take up his job in the office and died. There on everyone refuses to hear his film script, they taunt him for not being able for his lack of sincerity in his office job and his failure in getting towards his ambition as a director. People even protest in front of the office, for him to be laid off. To make a fair decision, the head announces to him and the impacted people, that he shall take a five-year leave without allowance for better employment within the country. After this, it shows the jovial life Priyadarshan (Jayasurya), a village simpleton, whose daily work consists of doing all the work around the rubber farm, fruits and vegetables farm and giving the load of fruits and vegetables to local stores. He also teaches in a nearby high school, tuitions two elementary school-goers and supplies his family's basic needs. After coming home from his works, Priyadarshan is disappointed in hearing from his mother that there are problems marrying his younger sister, due to his father committing suicide because he couldn't pay back his loans and tells his mother that he will pay off all those loans. He then receives the employment letter on being temporarily appointed at the Taluk Office replacing Vaishakan on a leave vacancy and is overjoyed. Priyadarshan does his good deeds from the start like cleaning the office, which is rather dirty and shows the whole office that he is nothing but an optimistic merry man, who does all of his work sincerely. Priyadarshan merges into the city landscape in no time, and its busy inhabitants find his ways amusing. He then meets his humorous room mate in his lodge Kannappan (Salim Kumar). Priyadarsan talks a lot that too in a peculiar slang, is highly idealistic and falls in love with Meera (Bhama), who lives in a house next to his room in a lodge where he is staying in the city. He loves her as he thinks that Meera is the maid there, but actually she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman. At the office one day Vaishakan comes in saying he wants to cancel his dreams of being a director and resume his job there. Priyadarshan becomes upset and goes to see Vaishakan and helps him get a producer.Priyadarshan is recommended by Meera, who is in love with him and his innocence. He makes changes in Vaishakan's script by making it heart touching about a father and son who live in a poor household. Vaishakan quickly befriends Priyadarshan because with his help he got Achayan to sign the film to produce it. There on Priyadarshan and Meera fall deeply in love and meet quite often. One evening Meera's father (Devan) come home buying Revathy (Sarayu) his friends daughter and Meera some dresses and she comes across a Saree. Meera's father informs her that his friend's son and family is coming over to see Meera for a proposal. Meera gets worried and refuses to get married, then Revathy tells Meera's father about Priyadarshan, in which he is not happy about. There becomes a conflict between Priyadarshan and Meera's father.