No.20 Madras Mail

No.20 Madras Mail
Poster designed by Gayathri Ashokan
Directed by	Joshiy
Produced by	Tharangini Films
Written by	Dennis Joseph
Story by	Hari Kumar
Starring	Mohanlal M. G. Soman Manianpilla Raju Jagadish Suchitra Murali
Music by	Background Score: S. P. Venkatesh Song: Ouseppachan
Cinematography	Jayanan Vincent Santosh Sivan(second unit)
Edited by	K. Sankunny
Production company	AVM
Distributed by	Tharangini Films
Release date	16 February 1990
Running time	177 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	2 crores
Box office	12 crores

No.20 Madras Mail is a 1990 Malayalam action-comedy film directed by Joshiy, starring Mohanlal in lead role along with Jagadish, Manianpilla Raju, M. G. Soman, and Ashokan in supporting roles, Mammootty also appears in an extended cameo role. The film follows the mystery behind the murder of a young woman in a train journey between Thiruvananthapuram to Madras. Almost half of the film was shot inside the train. This film was remade in Hindi as Teesra Kaun by Partho Ghosh with Mithun Chakraborty.

The train No.20 Madras Mail to Madras starts from Trivandrum Central. R.K. Nair (M.G. Soman), a Kollam-based businessman takes the first class coupe of the train to Madras with his wife Geetha (Jayabharathi) and daughter Devi (Suchitra) from Kollam Junction. Tony Kurushingal (Mohanlal), along with his friends Hitchcock Kanjikuzhi (Manianpilla Raju) and Kumbalam Hari (Jagadish) boards the same coach from Kottayam. Tony is the son of a wealthy businessman, Kurishinkal Kariyachan (Jagannatha Varma), Kanjikuzhi is a detective novelist and Hari is a young politician. The three of them are going to Madras for seeing a cricket test match and to make attempts to make Kanjikuzhi's novel Vaazhikuzhiyile Kolapathakam a movie. All the three are heavily drunken while boarding the train. After entering the train and seeing Devi, Tony and friends make several attempts in getting a seat for Tony in the same coupe of Devi, with the help of TTE officer Nadar (Innocent) but with little success. While doing so Tony gets into heated arguments with RK Nair and Sunil (Ashokan), who has a reserved seat in the same coupe (from Ernakulam) as that of R.K. Nair. Actor Mammootty boards the train from Thrissur and gets into the same coach. Nadar leaves the train at Palakkad after giving company with Tony and gang and the new TTE Chokalingam a.k.a. Choki (Jagathy Sreekumar) enters the train. Tony and his friends visit Mammootty in his coupe and soon become friends with him. Meanwhile, Tony tries to flirt with Devi while she returns from the toilet, which causes Tony to land in trouble with R.K Nair but on Mammootty's intervention the matter is settled.