Vietnam Colony

Vietnam Colony
Directed by	Siddique-Lal
Produced by	Swargachitra Appachan Joy
Written by	Siddique-Lal
Starring	Mohanlal Innocent Kanaka
Music by	S. Balakrishnan
Cinematography	Venu
Edited by	T. R. Shekhar
Production company	Swargachitra President Movies
Distributed by	Swargachitra Release
Release date	25 December 1992
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Vietnam Colony is a 1992 Indian Malayalam comedy-drama film written and directed by Siddique-Lal. It stars Mohanlal, Innocent, Kanaka, and K. P. A. C. Lalitha, the film achieved considerable success following its theatrical release. A Tamil remake of the film, starring Prabhu was released in 1994 with the same title.

G. Krishnamoorthy (Mohanlal), hailing from an orthodox Tamil Brahmin community, gets a job with Calcutta Constructions as a supervisor. Calcutta Company has been working to restructure their land by vacating an illegal colony lying adjacent to its premise. Popularly known as Vietnam Colony, it is inhabited mainly by day laborers. The company has been in efforts to demolish the colony for long time, but failed to do so. The colony is now under the rule a few hardcore criminals to whom the residents have to pay specific amount every week. Now, Krishnamoorthy is appointed by company to evacuate the colony, by dealing with these criminals. He is assisted by K. K. Joseph (Innocent).

Both arrive at the colony under the disguise of professional writers planning to write a story on the life of the colony residents. Upon arrival, both enter the house of Pattalam Madhavi Amma (K. P. A. C. Lalitha) in search of a house, but she mistakes them to have come to see her daughter Unnimol (Kanaka) and calls Unni to bring tea and snacks. But after knowing about the goof happened, she lets them stay on the top floor of her house. Upon the advice of Erumely (Kuthiravattam Pappu), the broker, Madhavi Amma believes that with time, her daughter might fall in love with Krishnamoorthy and might get married to this educated Brahmin man.

In the coming days, Krishnamoorthy befriends various members of the colony and tries to read out their idea about vacating the colony. But he realizes that it is not an easy task to evacuate the people and thinks about different plans to be operated. From Madhavi Amma, Krishnamoorthy comes to know that the entire colony was owned by Moosa Sait (Nedumudi Venu), a millionaire, who even gave up his mom for money. Suhra Bai (Philomina), his mother is now living a pathetic life inside the colony. Krishnamoorthy meets up with Paravoor Rauthar (Rajkumar), Irumbu John (Bheeman Raghu) and Kannappa Srank, the criminal leaders who are now controlling the colony.