Pramani
| Pramani | |
|---|---|
Manoj | |
| Music by | M. Jayachandran |
| Distributed by | Play House |
Release date |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Pramani is a 2010 Indian Malayalam-language
Plot
Viswanatha Panicker is a corrupted Panchayat president of Thazhe Keezhppadam grama panchayath in Kuttanad for 25 years. He earns a lot of wealth through his corruption and by cornering his village people to hand over their lands to him. But he never acquires in his name, instead he gives them to his relatives. He has also been nicknamed 'America' for his tricky ways to play the big brother and thereby getting control over the issues where he gets involved. Panicker's dealings are done through his cousin brother and confidant, Somasekharan. On the other hand, Castro Vareeth is totally different man from Viswanathasa Paniker. He wants his village people to have a peaceful life.
The members of the Panchayat who work under Viswanatha Panicker are also ruthless and they are afraid of the arrival of the new Panchayat Secretary Janaki as they claim that she is very strict. On arrival, she finds out that there are so many illegal transactions and threatens that she will write to the higher authority. But, Panicker never listens to her and continue their illegal works. Somasekharan meets Bobby who is on his mission to instruct the people about the activities of Panicker and bring them to light. Soma threatens Bobby but he continues his work. Panicker later learns that Bobby is the grandson of Rosy Teacher and son of his old friend Joseph Varghese and Panicker never comes across his way.
Panicker illegally wants to sign an agreement for Cyber Park Project which needs more land for the construction of the building. Janaki is against it claiming that it is an agricultural land. But Panicker-Soma wants the agreement to be signed and Soma house-arrests Janaki along with her ailing mother while Panicker signs the agreement with a secretary for that day in place of Janaki and he controls the other members of Panchayat with the bribe. Later Rosy teacher advises him and asks him to cancel the agreement. She also recites that Panicker has got this job only because of the death of her son, Joseph and she always wanted Panicker to be honest like her son.
Panicker, on the advice of Rosy, plans to cancel the agreement but Soma and the other family members stands against him. They asks him to leave the house if he wants to cancel the agreement. Panicker leaves the house with the Orphan girl, whom he claims that, he saw her in the train on the day of Joseph's death. Panicker starts living in the Panchayat office and Janaki feels sad for him and starts supporting him on knowing that he had changed. Panicker and Janaki goes to meet the higher authority in
Soma, who is against Panicker now, brain-washes Bobby's mind that his father Joseph's death was not an accident but a murder by Panicker to acquire the President post. Bobby, who partially believes it, asks Panicker and says that he is on his way to Trivandrum for work. Next day, Bobby's things are seen near the river and Soma claims that Panicker has killed Bobby as he came to about Panicker's true color. Rosy believes it and she slaps Panicker. Panicker recites the story of her son Joseph that he had lurked from others for the past 25 years. He says Joseph had a relationship with a lady after his marriage and fathered a girl and Joseph had taken him to his concubine's funeral. By accident, Joseph falls from the train during their return journey. He also says that the girl whom he claimed to be an orphan whom he saw in train, is Joseph's daughter. Panicker swears that he will bring Bobby back.
Panicker slams Soma and finds Bobby. He apologizes to the village and also to Rosy teacher and swears that he will go in a right way.
Cast
- Mammootty as Viswanatha Panicker
- Fahadh Faasil as Bobby Joseph Varghese
- Siddique as Somasekhara Panicker
- Janardhanan as Castro Vareeth
- Sneha as Janaki (Voice over By Bhagyalakshmi)
- Nazriya Nazim as Sindhu
- Lakshmi as Rosy Teacher
- Prabhu as Joseph Varghese
- Suraj Venjaramoodu as Maoist Murugan
- Salim Kumar as Advocate Salim Hassan
- CIJeevan
- Suresh Krishna as Mangattu Vikraman
- Baburaj as Sibichan
- P. Sreekumar
- Biju Pappan as Mohandas
- Lakshmipriya as Somasekharan's Sister
- Maala Parvathias Bobby's mother
- Sreelatha Namboothiri as Somasekharan's mother
- K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Janaki's Mother
- Anoop Menon as District Collector (Cameo)
- Kalabhavan Mani as Dancer (Cameo)
- Narayanankutty
- Chembil Ashokan
- Sivaji Guruvayooras Minister Clement Mathai
- Priyanka Anoop
- Krishna Prabha
Production
The shooting of the film began on 27 December 2009.
Soundtrack
The songs are composed by
| No. | Title | Singer |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oru Vennila | K. J. Yesudas |
| 2 | Karakarangana | Anwar Sadat & Sudeep Kumar |
| 3 | Pramani | Anwar Sadat |
Reception
The film got mixed reviews from the critics and from several film reviewing sites. Paresh C Palicha of Rediff.com rated the film 2 in a scale of 5 and said, "In the final analysis, Pramaani delivers only on one promise, that being a star vehicle. In every other aspect it fails."[3] Sify.com's reviewer said, "In all fairness, Pramani is watchable as a passé entertainer, if you are not looking forward to some nice experiments. It's an old-fashioned tale, being told in the formulaic or the clichéd style."[4]
References
- ^ "Sneha Walking The Glamour Line Previous". Supergoodmovies. Retrieved 18 December 2009.
- ^ "Pramani getting ready for Vishu". Malluwoodonline.
- ^ "Review: Pramaani fails".
- ^ "Movie Review : Pramani". Sify. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
External links
- Pramani at IMDb
