Mr. Marumakan

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{{Infobox film
| name = Mr. Marumakan
| image = Mr.marumakan.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical poster
| director = [[Sandhya Mohan]]
| producer = [[Maha Subair]] Nelson Ipe
| writer = [[Udayakrishna-Siby K. Thomas|Udayakrishna Siby K. Thomas]]
| starring = [[Dileep (actor)|Dileep]] [[Sanusha]] [[Bhagyaraj]] [[Khushbu]] [[Sheela]] [[Biju Menon]] [[Nedumudi Venu]]
| music = [[Suresh Peters]]
| cinematography = P. Sukumar
| editing =Mahesh Narayan
| studio = Varnachitra Big Screen
| distributor = PJ Entertainments Europe
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2012|8|18}}
| runtime = 177 minutes
| country = India
| language = Malayalam
| budget =
| gross ={{INR}}26crore<ref>[http://boxofficeverdicts.blogspot.in/p/malayalam-films-of-2013.html Malayalam Films of 2013]</ref>
}}

'''''Mr. Marumakan''''' ({{literal translation|Mr. Son-in-law}}) is a 2012 [[Malayalam]]-language [[comedy-drama]] film written by the duo [[Udayakrishna-Siby K. Thomas]] and directed by ''Sandhya Mohan'' .<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mallucritic.com/malayalam-movie/mister-marumakan-movie|title=Mr Marumakan – Movie Details|work=MalluCritiC.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article1507837.ece|title=Scripting blockbusters|date=4 March 2011|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=5 March 2011}}</ref> The movie stars [[Dileep (actor)|Dileep]] in the lead role with [[Sanusha]], [[Bhagyaraj]], [[Khushbu Sundar]], [[Sheela]], [[Biju Menon]], [[Nedumudi Venu]] and [[Riyaz Khan]] in supporting roles.<ref>[http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news-detail/116278/Sanusha-opposite-Dileep-in-Mr-Marumakan.html "Sanusha opposite Dileep in Mr. Marumakan"]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. [[Yahoo]]. 3 March 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2011.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110125071111/http://www.sify.com/movies/k-bhagyaraj-in-dileep-s-mr-marumakan-news-malayalam-lbyj4oiahja.html "K Bhagyaraj in Dileep's Mr Marumakan"]. [[Sify]].com 24 January 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2011.</ref>

The film is a remake of the 1989 [[Telugu Cinema|Telugu]] film ''[[Attaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu]]'', and tells the story of three rich women, Raja Kokila, her adopted daughter Raja Mallika and her daughter Raja Lakshmi who believe that a woman can survive without the help of a man. However, the entry of a lawyer-trained drama director Ashok Raj into their lives forces them to revise their opinions. Critical reactions to the film were mostly mixed, but the film managed to become a hit at the box office.<ref name="BO">[https://web.archive.org/web/20121016021738/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/run-baby-run-to-trivandrum-lodge-mohanlal-is-giving-back-to-back-hits/299788-71-210.html "'Run Baby Run' to 'Trivandrum lodge', Mohanlal is giving back to back hits"]</ref>

== Plot ==
The movie is about an Advocate Ashok Chakravarthy ([[Dileep (actor)|Dileep]]), who enters into the life of three women who are all of the belief that a woman can survive without a man in her life.
Their thoughts are changed when one of the three, Ashok Raj, marries Raja Lakshmi ([[Sanusha]]). Into his life also enters a banking Ombudsman Balasubramanyam ([[Bhagyaraj]]), his father Raja Gopalan Thampi's ([[Nedumudi Venu]]) childhood friend. The three women's business entity is known as Raja's Groups of Company as they are Raja Kokila ([[Sheela]]), who is Chairperson of Raja's Groups of Company, Raja Mallika ([[Khushbu]]) and Raja Lakshmi. His entry into their family later reveals that Raja Kokila is step-mother to Raja Mallika, who was adopted when she was minor. Also, after the death of Raja Kokila's husband, she became the sole owner of her husband's assets and changed her name from Kokila to Raja Kokila. It is also revealed that the mother of Raja Mallika is their maid Bhavaniyamma ([[Kaviyoor Ponnamma]]). The movie ends with the reunion of Raja Mallika with both her husband and mother.

== Cast ==
* [[Dileep (actor)|Dileep]] as Ashoka Chakravarthy / Ashok Raj
* [[Bhagyaraj]] as Balasubrahmanyam (Ombudsman), Mallika's husband/Lakshmi's father
* [[Sanusha]] as Raja Lakshmi, Ashok Raj's childhood friend/Mallika's Daughter/Ashok Raj's wife (voice by Nithuna Nevil)
* [[Khushbu]] as Raja Mallika, Balasubrahmanyam's wife/Lakshmi's mother(Voice by [[Bhagyalakshmi]])
* [[Sheela]] as Raja Kokila, Chairperson of Raja's Group.
* [[Biju Menon]] as Babu Raj, elder brother of Ashok Raj, eldest son of Raja Gopalan Thampi
* [[Nedumudi Venu]] as Rajagopalan Thampy
* [[Riyaz Khan]] as A.C.P. Madhuram Ramachandran IPS
* [[Sai Kumar (Malayalam actor)|Sai Kumar]] as Ramachandran, Ashok Chakravarthy's instructor
* [[Kaviyoor Ponnamma]] as Bhavani Amma, Raja Mallika's birth mother
* [[Salim Kumar]] as Sankaranunni, Ashok's Friend
* [[Suraj Venjaramoodu]] as Chantha Hamsa
* [[Harisree Ashokan]] as Keshu, Mallika's assistant
* [[Baburaj (actor)|Baburaj]] as Adv. K.V. Panickar, Raja Mallika's legal advisor
* [[Mallika (actress)|Mallika]] as Ashok's sister
* [[Sajitha Betti]] as Adv. K.V. Panicker's sister
* Lakshmipriya as Adv. K.V. Panicker's wife
* [[Thesni Khan]] as Raja Mallika's assistant
* [[Ambika Mohan]] as Ambika, Raja Gopalan Thampi's wife/Ashok Raj's and Baburaj's mother
* [[Meghna Nair]] as Minmini, [[Personal assistant|PA]] of Mallika

== Critical reception ==
''Metro Matinee'' gave the movie a verdict of "Time-Pass Entertainer", concluding that "On the whole, 'Mr. Marumakan' is a crowd-pleaser that knows exactly who its audience is. For die-hard fans of Dileep, this old-fashioned entertainer is a treat and delivers enough entertainment for your buck".<ref>{{cite web|title=Mr. Marumakan Movie Review|url=http://www.metromatinee.com/Review/Mr%20Marumakan%20Review-193-1|date=18 August 2012|accessdate=21 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822021314/http://www.metromatinee.com/Review/Mr%20Marumakan%20Review-193-1|archive-date=22 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''[[Sify]]'' the movie a verdict of "Strictly for Dileep fans!", commenting that "Mr. Marumakan is as archaic as formula is to films and it is packaged as an old-school masala potboiler aimed at Dileep fans. It is exaggerated and formulaic, but relies squarely on the charm of its leading man to pull off its over-the-top tone. And when you walk out of the theatres, you realize why Dileep is called the ''Janapriya Nayakan''."<ref>{{cite web|title=Movie Review: Mr. Marumakan|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/mr-marumakan-review-malayalam-15005674.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924184909/http://www.sify.com/movies/mr-marumakan-review-malayalam-15005674.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 September 2015|publisher=Sify|author=Moviebuzz|date=20 August 2012|accessdate=21 August 2012}}</ref>

Paresh C. Palicha of ''[[Rediff]]'' gave the movie 2/5 stars, stating that "Mr. Marumakan is a typical Dileep film, not one expected from someone who is recently honoured as the Best Actor by the Kerala State Government."<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: Mr. Marumakan is crude|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-mr-marumakan-is-crude/20120820.htm|publisher=Rediff|author=Paresh C Palicha|date=20 August 2012|accessdate=21 August 2012}}</ref>

Veeyen of ''Now Running'' gave the movie 2/5 stars, saying that "'Mr. Marumakan' offers little wackiness when it comes to humor since the jokes never build up. It has little on offer when it comes to emotions as the situations progress from clumsy to worse. The antics that he is up to make for tedious viewing, and this supposedly fun-in-law is in short, no won-in-law".<ref>{{cite web|title=Mr. Marumakan Review|url=http://www.nowrunning.com/movie/8492/malayalam/mr-marumakan/3849/review.htm|publisher=Now Running|author=Veeyen|date=18 August 2012|accessdate=21 August 2012}}</ref>

== Box office ==
It earned {{INRConvert|26|c}} in five weeks. The film completed 8000 shows and ran more than 100 days at the box office.

== Awards ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Ceremony
! Category
! Nominee
! Result
! Ref.
|-
|rowspan="1"|[[2nd South Indian International Movie Awards]]
|[[2nd South Indian International Movie Awards|SIIMA Award for Best Comedian]]
|[[Suraj Venjaramood]]
|{{won}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/stars-in-sharjah/article5128642.ece | title=Stars in Sharjah | work=The Hindu | accessdate=15 September 2013 | author=Sudish Kamath}}</ref>
|-
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:2010s Malayalam-language films]]
[[Category:2012 films]]

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