Daddy Cool (2009 Malayalam film)
Daddy Cool | |
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Directed by | Aashiq Abu |
Written by | Aashiq Abu Dialogues Bipin Chandran |
Produced by | Bose Kurian Alwyn Antony |
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Cinematography | Sameer Thahir |
Edited by | V. Sajan |
Music by | Bijibal |
Production companies | Ananya Films Marikar Films |
Distributed by | Marikar Release |
Release date |
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Running time | 157 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Malayalam |
Daddy Cool is a 2009 Indian
The movie was released on August 7 2009 worldwide got mixed reviews.
Plot
The story line of the film is the escapades of a cricket crazy kid, all of eight years and his father, a cop. Antony Simon is a crime branch CI, but prefers to spend his time fooling around with his son Aadi. And being a Crime Branch police officer, his rather laid-back attitude is not appreciated by his peers and superiors. Annie his wife finds this irritating.
The father-son duo becomes friends with the famous national cricketer Sreekanth when they save him from some street fight. Once while the father-son duo was out for shopping, Aadi saw a man with the gun and screams at his father. Simon turns back and shoots him, but he kills the wrong person. Antony now faces murder charges and is suspended from duty.
Later that day, Aadhi is found missing. Antony being a cop, the entire police force in the district is in search. They find that Shakthi, the one who was killed by Simon was the younger brother of Shiva the leader of a gang who were trying to get Sreekanth into a match-fixing deal and from whom Antony saved Sreekanth once. They are trying to get revenge on Simon for killing Shakthi and that is why they abducted Aadi. The rest of the film is about how Simon fights Shiva and his gang and gets Aadhi back from them with brave ways.
Cast
- CIAntony Simon
- Dhananjay as Adi Antony
- Biju Menon as Roy
- Richa Pallod as Annie Antony
- Daniel Balaji as Shiva
- Ashish Vidyarthi as Bheem Bhai
- Vijayaraghavan as DYSPVarghese
- Sai Kumar as Shiva Prasad
- Baburaj as Soman
- Vinayakan as Selva, Shiva's henchman
- cricketer
- Anoop Chandran as Kappal Basheer
- Rajan P. Dev as Roy's father
- P. Sreekumar as Annie's father
- Ambika Mohan as Annie's mother
- Radhika as Milly, Annie's sister
- Babu Swamy
- Gopakumar
- Suraj Venjaramoodas Ainkutty (cameo appearance)
- Lena Kumar as Adi's class teacher (cameo appearance)
- Bipin Chandran as The News Reader (cameo appearance)
- Nikita Thukral as item number in the song "Saamba Salsa".
Production
The role of a cricketer was first offered to S. Sreesanth before it was given to Govind Padmasoorya.[2]
Soundtrack
The film features a soundtrack, consisting of 6 songs, composed by Bijibal.
No. | Title | Lyrics | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Daddy Cool" | R. Venugopal | Gayatri Suresh | |
2. | "Daddy My Daddy" | Santhosh Varma | Swetha Mohan, Sanand Unnithan, Aditya Krishna, Amrutha Krishna, Anju Bhaskaran | |
3. | "Kadha" | Anil Panachooran | Bijibal | |
4. | "Kadhayoru" | Anil Panachooran | Hariharan | |
5. | "Samba" | Santhosh Varma | Jassie Gift | |
6. | "Samba Salsa" | Santhosh Varma | Anuradha Sriram, Jassie Gift |
Reception
References
- Rediff.
- ^ Prakash, Asha (26 May 2013). "Sreesanth was offered a tainted cricketer's role in Daddy cool?". The Times of India.
- ^ "Daddy Cool". Sify. 10 August 2009. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017.
- Rediff.
External links
- Official website
- Daddy Cool at IMDb