Oru Muthassi Gadha | |
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Directed by | Jude Anthany Joseph |
Produced by | Dr. A. V. Anoop Mukesh R. Mehtha |
Written by | Jude Anthany Joseph |
Story by | Nivin Pauly |
Starring | Rajini Chandy Bhagyalakshmi Suraj Venjaramoodu Lena Aparna Balamurali Rajeev Pillai |
Music by | Shaan Rahman |
Cinematography | Vinod Ellamppilly |
Edited by | Lijo Paul |
Production
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AVA Productions
E4 Entertainment |
Release date
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Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Oru Muthassi Gadha | |
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Soundtrack album by Shaan Rahman | |
Released | 4 September 2016 |
Genre | Film soundtrack |
Length | 10:05 |
Language | Malayalam |
Label | Muzik 247 |
Producer | Shaan Rahman |
Oru Muthassi Gadha (English: A Granny's Mace) is a 2016 Indian Malayalam film written and directed by Jude Anthany Joseph from a story by Nivin Pauly. It stars Rajini Chandy and Bhagyalakshmi in the lead roles of two grandmothers, with supporting characters played by Suraj Venjaramoodu, Lena, Vineeth Sreenivasan , Rajeev Pillai, and Renji Panicker. Oru Muthassi Gadha released on 14 September 2016 during the occasion of Kerala's state festival, Onam.
It narrates the story of a wealthy grandmother, Susamma who helps to change her daughter Jeena's Mother in law Leelamma's repressed behavior by fulfilling her bucket list. Later they together start a make a wish group for elderly and abandoned people.
Sibi (Suraj Venjaramoodu) lives, with his wife Jeena (Lena), daughter Alice (Aparna Balamurali), son Alan (Nohad Shajahan) and his aged Mother, Leelamma (Rajini Chandy), in Kochi. Leelamma, is ill-tempered and meddles with everyone and harasses activities of hired helps. Due to her harassment, nobody agrees to work for them until Babu, a Bengali worker agrees to work for them. Leelamma surprisingly gets along well with Babu and the family gets some respite for a while. On his Boss's (Vijayaraghavan) suggestion he decides to go for a family trip.
However, on the day before the trip Leelamma due to an altercation with Sebi, backs out of the trip. Sebi and his family decide to continue with the planned trip and call up Sebi's Mother-in-law, Susamma (Bhagyalakshmi) to keep her company. Susamma is sociable and modern in outlook, she is well versed with technology and open to new age fun. After some initial well-meaning tiffs Leelamma and Susamma bond with each other. The two along with Babu decide to celebrate Leelamma's birthday and complete her bucket wish list. On one night after a celebratory round of drinks, Leelamma starts narrating her love story from her college days involving her then classmate Zachariah (Vineeth Sreenivasan). She, however, passes out before she can finish her story. The next day, she wakes up to an eager Susamma waiting for the ending. Leelamma continues to say she broke-up with him and regrets that she could not meet him.