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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Graama Panchaayathu<br />
| image = <br />
| caption = <br />
| director = [[Ali Akbar (director)|Ali Akbar]]<br />
| producer = Shemeer Thukalil<br>Kukku<br />
| writer = <br />
| screenplay = [[Benny P. Nayarambalam]]<br />
| starring = [[Jagadish]]<br>[[Rajan P. Dev]]<br />
| music = [[Berni-Ignatious]]<br />
| cinematography = Madhu Adoor<br />
| editing = G. Murali<br />
| studio = SM Creations<br />
| distributor = Kokkers Films<br>Anupama<br>Evershine<br />
| released = {{Film date|1998}}<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = [[Malayalam]]<br />
}}<br />
'''''Graama Panchaayathu''''' is a 1998 Indian [[Malayalam]]-language [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[Ali Akbar (director)|Ali Akbar]] and written by [[Benny P. Nayarambalam]], starring [[Jagadish]] and [[Rajan P. Dev]] in the lead roles. It was a commercial success at the box-office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.malayalachalachithram.com/movie.php?i=3123|title=Graama Panchaayathu|accessdate=2014-11-07|publisher=www.malayalachalachithram.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.msidb.org/m.php?2706 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108001748/http://en.msidb.org/m.php?2706 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-11-08 |title=Graama Panchaayathu |accessdate=2014-11-07 |publisher=malayalasangeetham.info }}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
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Two persons lifelong friendship takes a sour turn when one of them wins a court case and gets a hefty settlement. After this he considers his friend, who is a barber, to be of lower stature and goes back on his word to marry his daughter to his friend's son whom he now considers to be worthless as he has no job and is a barber's son. How the barber's son tries to woo and marry her despite her fathers resistance.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Jagadish]] as Chakrapani<br />
* [[Rajan P. Dev]] as Pappu<br />
* [[Jagathy Sreekumar]] as R.A. Japan/Rajappan<br />
* [[NF Varghese]] as Gunasekharan<br />
* [[Kaveri (actress)|Kaveri]] as Sunanda<br />
* [[Kalpana (Malayalam actress)|Kalpana]] as Pankajakshi <br />
* [[Harishree Ashokan]] as Swa.Le<br />
* [[Indrans]] as Bhaskaran<br />
* [[Salim Kumar]] as Njandu<br />
* [[Zeenath]] as Santha<br />
* Sagar Shiyas as Bhargavan, a look alike of [[Rajanikanth]]<br />
* [[Jayasurya]] as Bus conductor ([[junior artist]])<br />
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==In popular culture==<br />
Jagathy Sreekumars character R.A. Japan (the stylish name which he would refer himself as), originally Rajappan, a self proclaimed modern barber who was brought by Gunasekharan to destroy his once good friend's barber shop, was immensely popular among the masses.Later it was used similarly in the film ''[[Njan Prakashan]]'' Fahad Fazils character P.R Akash , he changes his name from Prakashan to P.R Akash. {{citation needed|date=November 2020}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|0273245}}<br />
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[[Category:1998 films]]<br />
[[Category:1998 Malayalam-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Malayalam-language comedy-drama films]]</div>Krishnakumarsinhji Gohil