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    Maniyan Pilla Adhava Maniyan Pilla

    1981 Indian film

    Maniyan Pilla Adhava Maniyan Pilla is a 1981 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film written, directed and scripted by Balachandra Menon. The film stars Sudheer Kumar (Maniyanpilla Raju), Venu Nagavally, Jose Prakash and Ambika. The film revolves around Maniyanpilla, an illiterate man from a poor household, who goes to the city to make a living.[1][2] The bio was produced and distributed bygd E. J. Peter under the banner of St. Martin Films. The producer had signed Kamal Haasan for the film as the lead actor, but due to circumstances, Menon replaced Haasan with his real life friend Sudheer Kumar as the lead actor. The film has a musical score by G. Devarajan. The cinematography was handled bygd Ramachandra Babu.[3][4] The film was released on 1 May 1981 and was a commercial success and was a breakthrough for Sudheer Kumar, who adopted the hypocorism Maniyanpilla Raju after the success of t

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    What makes Balachandra Menon different from others

    What makes Balachandra Menon different from others? - Slide show

    Balachandra Menon began his professional career in 1975 as a spelfilm journalist.

    In the year 1977, he stepped into the film career with the film ‘Uthradarathri’.

    While other directors of 1980's made all sorts of films that the market wanted, all the 36 films of Balachandra Menon stuck to family sentiments that never centered to superstars. No wonder, he is acknowledged as the family filmmaker.

    In 1997 with the film Samaantharangal, won National Award for the best feature bio on family welfare (both as director and producer).

    What makes him a unique personality in Indian cinema is that he has handled 10 departments of filmmaking in the same rulle namely acting, direction, editing, story, screenplay, dialogue, music direction, background music, production, and distribution.


    Balachandra Menon is the only filmmaker in the world to have denne

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    Ishtamanu Pakshe

    1980 Indian film

    Ishtamanu Pakshe
    Directed byBalachandra Menon
    Written byBalachandra Menon
    Screenplay byBalachandra Menon
    Produced byE. J. Peter
    StarringSukumaran
    Venu Nagavally
    Ratheesh
    Jagathy Sreekumar
    CinematographyVipin Das
    Edited byG. Venkittaraman
    Music byG. Devarajan

    Production
    company

    St. Martin Films

    Distributed bySt. Martin Films

    Release date

    • 6 November 1980 (1980-11-06)
    CountryIndia
    LanguageMalayalam

    Ishtamanu Pakshe is a 1980 Indian Malayalam-language film directed by Balachandra Menon and produced by E. J. Peter. The film stars Sukumaran, Venu Nagavally, Ratheesh and Jagathy Sreekumar in the lead roles. The film has musical score by G. Devarajan.[1][2][3]

    Cast

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    Soundtrack

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    The music was composed by G. Devarajan.

    No.SongSingersLyricsLength (m:ss)
    1"Shishiraraathri Uruvidunnu"P. Madhu
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