Pattam Pole

Pattam Pole
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Directed by	Alagappan N
Produced by	Karunakaran Kanhangad
Written by	Girish Kumar
Starring	Dulquer Salmaan Malavika Mohanan Archana Kavi Anoop Menon Shradha Gokul Jayaprakash Lalu Alex
Music by	M. Jayachandran
Cinematography	S. Selva kumar
Edited by	Raja Mohammed
Production company	Carlton Films
Distributed by	Carlton Films Kalasangham Khas
Release date	11 October 2013 (2013-10-11)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Pattam Pole (English: Like a Kite) is a 2013 Malayalam romantic film directed by cinematographer Alagappan N, who makes his directorial debut. The film tracks the relationship between a Brahmin youth, Karthik (Dulquer Salmaan) and a Christian girl Riya (Malavika Mohanan). Archana Kavi, Anoop Menon, Lalu Alex, Jayaprakash, Seetha, Leema Babu, Shraddha Gokul, Nandhu and Ilavarasu play supporting roles.

Karthi- a Tamil Hindu Brahmin boy (Dulquer Salmaan) and Riya- a Christian girl (Malavika Mohanan) elope one early morning to Ooty, fearing that the elders in the family will not accept their inter-religious relationship. They return to their respective homes after a couple of days after having a fight. They convince their family members that they hate each other and vow never to see each other again. But their fathers plan to reunite them thinking that they have broken due to immaturedness and ego problems. Riya's father is a friend of Karthi's father. Riya's family [without Riya] visit Karthi's home and invite them to Riya's marriage.

Meanwhile both Riya and Karthi join in the same company to work. Due to losses in the company caused by Riya, she is expelled from her job. Soon after Karthi meet Riya and they express love for each other and decide to elope in a houseboat. However they are caught by their fathers .Karthi's father hands them a marriage invitation which reads " RIYA and KARTHIK". The movie ends as they both thank and hug their fathers. The film ends as they walk through their home happily.

The film marks the directorial debut of veteran cinematographer Alagappan. The story has been nurtured by Alagappan for two and a half years. His story and idea found many takers and veteran producer Carlton Karunakaran readily agreed to produce the film. But Alagappan wanted to finish all his projects for other filmmakers before he donned the director's cap. In the meantime, he tightened his script and penned the dialogues in Tamil while Gireesh Kumar who wrote the scripts took care of the parts in Malayalam.