Peruchazhi
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| Malayalam | പെരുച്ചാഴി |
| Directed by | Arun Vaidyanathan |
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| Music by | Arrora |
| Cinematography | Arvind Krishna |
| Edited by | Vivek Harshan |
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154 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Budget | ₹100 million |
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| Recorded | 2014 | |||
| Genre | Popular music | |||
| Length | 24:23 | |||
| Language | Malayalam | |||
| Label | Think Music India | |||
| Producer | Vijay Babu, Sandra Thomas | |||
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Peruchazhi (English: Bandicota) is a 2014 Indian Malayalam-language political satire comedy film written and directed by Arun Vaidyanathan. The dialogues were co-written by Ajayan Venugopalan, produced by Vijay Babu and Sandra Thomas for Friday Film House. The film features Mohanlal in the lead role, and Baburaj, Aju Varghese, Ragini Nandwani, Mukesh, Vijay Babu, and Sean James Sutton appears in supporting roles. The background score and soundtrack was composed by Arrora, while Arvind Krishna and Vivek Harshan did the cinematography and editing, respectively.
Jagannathan (Mohanlal), an Indian politician is pretty good at solving problems using wit and unorthodox ideas. To get rid of him, fellow politician Francis Kunjappan (Mukesh) offers him a never-did-before task in the United States which could give him enough money to fulfill his dream of a sports academy. Jagannathan ends up being the chief political adviser for a struggling candidate John Kory (Sean James Sutton) in the California governor's election campaign and his use of tactics standard in Indian politics to win the election.
Vaidyanathan got the story idea when he watched a political debate in a television channel in the United States. He originally wrote the screenplay in Tamil and English, it was translated into Malayalam by Ajayan Venugopalan in 2013, the same year the film was announced, he converted it into a Malayali context. Principal photography commenced during mid-April 2014 in Kollam, Kerala. Set almost entirely in the United States, majority of the film was shot in Burbank, California, some parts were shot in Trivandrum and Kochi, at where film wrapped in July 2014.
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