Kanamarayathu

Kanamarayathu
Promotional Poster designed by P. N. Menon
Directed by	I. V. Sasi
Written by	P. Padmarajan
Starring	Mammootty Rahman Lalu Alex Shobhana Seema
Music by	Shyam
Cinematography	Jayanan Vincent
Release date	27 July 1984 (1984-07-27)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Kanamarayathu is a 1984 Malayalam film written by Padmarajan and directed by I. V. Sasi. It stars Mammootty, Rahman, Lalu Alex, Shobhana and Seema. This film won 1984 Kerala State Film Awards for the Best Story (Padmarajan), Best Music Director (Shyam) and Best Female Singer (S. Janaki). The story was an adaptation of the 1912 novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster.

Sherly (Shobhana) is an orphan who is sponsored by an old man. On his death, the sponsorship is continued by his son Roy (Mammootty), who is a rich businessman. But Sherly does not know about him. She comes to College in the city where Roy's sister Mercy(Sabitha Anand) is her classmate and she meets Roy still not knowing he is her sponsor. On the other hand, Alex (Lalu Alex) introduces his brother Baby (Rahman) to Roy, and on Roy's advice Baby starts working in his firm.

At Mercy's birthday party, Baby meets Sherly and falls in love with her, but her mind has already gone for Roy, still without knowing that he is her sponsor, and she rejects Baby. Later Sherly finds that Roy has no feelings for her, although he is secretly in love with her but does not wish to reveal it because of the age gap between them and also because Baby confuses her by lying to her that Roy and Elsie (Seema) were in love for a long time and couldn't marry because of Roy's father. Sherly is extremely frustrated at this and in a fit of rage goes to Elsie and lies to her that she is pregnant with Roy's baby. Elsie is shocked at this and goes to his office and scolds him for his irresponsibility but Roy tells her that it was not him.