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{{short description|1996 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Hitler
| image = Hitler Malayalam.jpg
| director = [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]
| producer = Ousepachan Vaalakuzhy<br/>[[Lal (actor)|Lal]]
| writer = [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]
| starring = [[Mammootty]]
| music = [[S. P. Venkatesh]] (music)<br/>[[Gireesh Puthenchery]] (lyrics)
| cinematography = Anandakuttan
| editing = T. R. Shekhar<br/>K. R. Gaurishankar
| studio = Ousepachan Movie House
| distributor = [[Lal Creations|Lal Release]]
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1996|4|14}}
| runtime = 154 minutes
| country = India
| language = Malayalam
| gross =
}}

'''''Hitler''''' is a 1996 [[India]]n [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]-language [[comedy-drama]] film written and directed by [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]], produced by Ousepachan Valakuzhy and [[Lal (actor)|Lal]], and starring [[Mammootty]] in the lead role and [[Mukesh (actor)|Mukesh]], [[Shobana Chandrakumar|Shobhana]], [[Sai Kumar (Malayalam actor)|Sai Kumar]], [[Jagadish]], and [[Vani Viswanath]] in supporting roles. The story centres around the life of Madhavankutty (Mammootty), locally known as 'Hitler' due to his tough character, domineering personality and his uncontrolled rage at the youngsters of the area, for stalking his five young sisters. The film was a commercial success at the box office and was the highest grossing malayalam movie at that time.<ref>{{cite news|last1=V.P |first1=Nicy|title=Nayanathara to Star Opposite Mammootty in Siddique's 'Bhaskar The Rascal'|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/nayanathara-star-opposite-mammootty-siddiques-bhaskar-rascal-613852#BPg0EIP8WARkzmZY.97|work=[[International Business Times]]|date=13 November 2014|access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=V.P |first1=Nicy|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mammoottys-look-bhaskar-rascal-revealed-photo-619076|title=Mammootty's Look in 'Bhaskar The Rascal' Revealed [PHOTO]|work=International Business Times|date=2 January 2015|access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=V.P |first1=Nicy |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mammootty-star-marthandans-acha-din-615453|title=Mammootty to Star in Marthandan's 'Acha Din'|work=International Business Times|date=28 November 2014|access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ten worst remakes of Bollywood |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/ten-worst-remakes-of-bollywood/story-cnSqcMFa0QApeM7pzE54tN.html |access-date=21 January 2021 |work=Hindustan Times |date=10 September 2013 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=V.P |first1=Nicy |title='Bhaskar The Rascal' Movie Review Round-Up: Mammootty-Nayanthara Starrer is Good Comedy Entertainer |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/bhaskar-rascal-movie-review-round-mammootty-nayanthara-starrer-good-comedy-entertainer-629318 |access-date=21 January 2021 |work=International Business Times |date=15 April 2015 |language=en}}</ref>

== Plot ==
The movie speaks about the life of Madhavankutty, a rich man locally known as "Hitler" due to his tough character, domineering personality and his uncontrolled rage at the youngsters of the area, for stalking his five young sisters. Even though he loves his family more than anything in this world, he fails to express his love. He had been looking after the family since the death of their mother. Their father Pillechan is married again with two daughters and his children from the first marriage do not even speak with him (Madhavankutty's maternal uncle Gangadhara Menon is responsible for the separation between the children and Pillechan, which is revealed in a later part of the story). Madhavankutty's marriage was fixed with Gangadhara Menon's daughter Gauri and his sister Ammu’s marriage with Gauri's brother Balachandran. Once in Madhavankutty's absence, Balachandran sneaked in to his house to be with Ammu, but get caught which results in hostility between the two families and Madhavankutty opposes any of the decided marriages to happen between the families. Balachandran on the other hand wants to make them happen.

Things change when the eldest sister Seetha goes through an unfortunate event, where her unmarried professor under the influence of [[alcohol (drug)|alcohol]], rapes her. Coming back to senses, the professor confesses his act to Madhavankutty. Devastated on hearing this and learning how this incident can affect the lives of his younger sisters, he is forced to go with the solution that the professor puts forward. He gets Seetha married to the professor. His sister Ammu unaware of the facts behind the marriage gets furious with him, while he, being inherently stoic, behaved as a rude dominant to hide the facts. Balachandran finds this as an opportunity to get Ammu, who otherwise wouldn’t do anything against her brother’s wishes. Balachandran and Ammu get married and settle in the neighbourhood.

Due to the new developments, Madhavankutty's uncle Gangadhara Menon tries to befriend their rival family – Kompara. They on the other hand were waiting for an opportunity to take revenge, pretend to offer help, while their real intention was to increase the hatred between Madhavankutty and his uncle as they see Madhavankutty as a threat and can never do anything unless they remain enemies. They also suggest a marriage alliance with Gauri, which Gangadhara Menon approves. Gauri, still in love with Madhavankutty, acts pregnant saying Madhavankutty as the one responsible for it to prevent the marriage. This agitates Gangadhara Menon and under the advice of Nandakumar (from Kompara family), he decides to destroy the lives of Madhavankutty’s sisters, the way he destroyed Gauri's life. Madhavankutty's father learns about the plot and foils them, but it causes the girls and him to end up in the police station. He fails to convince his son about the truth and they become angrier at their father for his behaviour. Nandakumar sees the opportunity and they murder Pillechan. Madhavankutty, even though angry at his father’s deeds, does not desert his half sisters and brings them home, much to the dismay of his sisters who have an argument with him and leaves to Ammu's home to stay. Balachandran realises the seriousness of the situation and asks the girls to go back to their brother. He also say that whatever he did, was for Madhavankutty to stop sacrificing his life for his sisters and to get him married to his sister who loves him for life. Balachandran goes to find Madhavankutty to apologise, but gets attacked by a gang of thugs under the command of a person, seemingly Madhavankutty, while it actually was Krishnanunni the eldest of Kompara family who framed him. Balachandran survives and thinks Madhavankutty did it, which causes everyone, even Gauri to turn against him. Gangadhara Menon along with the ones from Kompara family goes to finish Madhavankutty once and for all, but learns that he himself was the target and Balachandran was not attacked by Madhavankutty. They try to murder Menon thinking after all that has happened Madhavankutty will not dare rescue him, but to their surprise he shows up to save Menon. Wounded Menon at the hospital tells to the rest of the family about his nephew's innocence. Madhavankutty survives the attack and succeeds in getting rid of the Kompara family from their lives. Losing hope at everything he believes, he decides to leave all behind and go someplace. He does not listen to the apologies or requests of the sisters to stay. He asks Balachandran to take care of the sisters and to find a better person for Gauri as he will never be a good husband for her. He begins to leave while a youngster shows up staring at his sisters leading him to chase the one, indicating that he can't stop being himself and can never leave.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Mammootty]] as Mamangalath Madhavankutty/'Hitler' Madhavankutty
* [[Mukesh (Malayalam actor)|Mukesh]] as Mamangalath Balachandran (Madhavankutty's cousin)
* [[Shobana Chandrakumar|Shobana]] as Gauri
* [[Ilavarasi]] as Seetha, first sister
* [[Vani Viswanath]] as Ammu, second sister
* [[Suchitra Murali]] as Gayathri, third sister
* [[Chippy (actress)|Chippy]] as Thulasi, fourth sister
* K. [[Seetha (Malayalam actress)|Seetha]] as Ambili, fifth sister
* Seena Antony as Sandhya, step sister
* [[Manju Thomas]] aka Merry Roopa as Sindhu, step sister
* [[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] as Pillai Chettan, Madhavan Kutty's Father
* [[Jagadish]] as Hrudayabhanu
* [[Sai Kumar (Malayalam actor)|Sai Kumar]] as Nandakumar
* [[M.G. Soman]] as College Professor
* [[Idavela Babu]] as Chandru
* [[Kozhikode Narayanan Nair]] as Gangadhara Menon, Balachandran's and Gouri's father
* [[Zainuddin (actor)|Zainuddin]] as Sathyapalan
* [[Cochin Haneefa]] as Jabbar
* [[Kalabhavan Rahman]] as Sulaiman
* [[V. K. Sriraman]] as Nandakumar's Brother
* [[Mohan Raj]] as Nandakumar's Brother
* [[K. P. A. C. Lalitha]] as Balachandran's and Gouri's mother
* [[Adoor Bhavani]] as Sathyapalan's mother
* [[Kanakalatha]]
* [[Zeenath]]
* [[T. P. Radhamani]]
* [[Usharani]] as Dance teacher, Malathi
* [[Vineeth]] as Youngster (Cameo)
{{colend}}

==Release==
The film was released on 14 April 1996.

===Box office===
The film was commercial success.<ref>{{cite news|last1=V.P |first1=Nicy|title=Nayanathara to Star Opposite Mammootty in Siddique's 'Bhaskar The Rascal'|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/nayanathara-star-opposite-mammootty-siddiques-bhaskar-rascal-613852#BPg0EIP8WARkzmZY.97|work=[[International Business Times]]|date=13 November 2014|access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=V.P |first1=Nicy|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mammoottys-look-bhaskar-rascal-revealed-photo-619076|title=Mammootty's Look in 'Bhaskar The Rascal' Revealed [PHOTO]|work=International Business Times|date=2 January 2015|access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=V.P |first1=Nicy |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/mammootty-star-marthandans-acha-din-615453|title=Mammootty to Star in Marthandan's 'Acha Din'|work=International Business Times|date=28 November 2014|access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Ten worst remakes of Bollywood |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/ten-worst-remakes-of-bollywood/story-cnSqcMFa0QApeM7pzE54tN.html |access-date=21 January 2021 |work=Hindustan Times |date=10 September 2013 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=V.P |first1=Nicy |title='Bhaskar The Rascal' Movie Review Round-Up: Mammootty-Nayanthara Starrer is Good Comedy Entertainer |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/bhaskar-rascal-movie-review-round-mammootty-nayanthara-starrer-good-comedy-entertainer-629318 |access-date=21 January 2021 |work=International Business Times |date=15 April 2015 |language=en}}</ref> The film was the highest grossing Malayalam film at that time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mammootty-Sidhique to team up again|url=https://m.timesofindia.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/mammootty-siddique-to-team-up-again/articleshow/40859062.cms|date=25 August 2014|work=[[The Times of India]]|author=Radhika C Pillai}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=10 Mollywood films that ran for the longest time|url=https://m.timesofindia.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/photo-features/10-mollywood-films-that-ran-for-the-longest-time/photostory/52523509.cms|access-date=21 January 2021 |work=[[The Times of India]]|date=31 May 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Ten worst remakes of Bollywood|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/ten-worst-remakes-of-bollywood/story-cnSqcMFa0QApeM7pzE54tN_amp.html|access-date=21 January 2021 |work=[[Hindustan Times]]|date=31 May 2016 |language=en}}</ref> The film ran 300 days in theatres.It was the most viewed film in the malayalam cinema history<ref>{{cite news|title=Mollywood movies that ran for more than 300 days|url=https://m.timesofindia.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/photo-features/mollywood-movies-that-ran-for-more-than-300-days/photostory/49802142.cms|access-date=21 January 2021 |work=[[The Times of India]]|date=16 November 2015 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=10 Mollywood films that ran for the longest time|url=https://m.timesofindia.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/photo-features/10-mollywood-films-that-ran-for-the-longest-time/photostory/52523509.cms|access-date=21 January 2021 |work=[[The Times of India]]|date=31 May 2016 |language=en}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Artist(s)

| all_lyrics = [[Gireesh Puthenchery]]
| all_music = [[S. P. Venkatesh]]

| title1 = Kithachethum Kaatte
| extra1 = [[K. S. Chithra]], [[M. G. Sreekumar]]

| title2 = Maarivil Poonkuyile
| extra2 = [[B. Arundhathi]]

| title3 = Nee Urangiyo
| extra3 = [[K. J. Yesudas]]

| title4 = Neeyurangiyo Nilave
| note4 = Female
| extra4 = K. S. Chithra

| title5 = Sundarimaare Ketti
| extra5 = Sebastian, Boney

| title6 = Vaarthinkale
| note6 = Female
| extra6 = K. S. Chithra

| title7 = Vaarthinkale
| note7 = Male
| extra7 = K. J. Yesudas

}}

==Remakes==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
! Year
! Film
! Language
! Cast
! Director
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Hitler (1997 film)|Hitler]]''
|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|[[Chiranjeevi]], [[Rajendra Prasad (actor)|Rajendra Prasad]], [[Rambha (actress)|Rambha]], [[Prakash Raj]]<br />[[Dasari Narayana Rao]]
|Muthyala Subbayya
|-
| 2000
|''[[Krodh (film)|Krodh]]''
|[[Hindi]]
| [[Sunil Shetty]], [[Rambha (actress)|Rambha]], [[Apoorva Agnihotri]], [[Sakshi Shivanand]]
| Ashok Honda
|-
| 2003
|''[[Military (film)|Military]]''
|[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|[[Sathyaraj]], [[Rambha (actress)|Rambha]], [[Livingston (actor)|Livingston]], [[Vijayalakshmi (Kannada actress)|Vijayalakshmi]], [[Manivannan]]
| G. Sai Suresh
|-
| 2005
|''[[Varsha (2005 film)|Varsha]]''
|[[Kannada]]
|[[Vishnuvardhan (actor)|Vishnuvardhan]], [[Ramesh Aravind]], [[Manya (actress)|Manya]], [[Komal (actor)|Komal]], [[Doddanna]]
| [[S. Narayan]]
|-
| 2005
|''[[Dadar Adesh]]''
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|[[Prosenjit Chatterjee]], [[Anu Chowdhury]], [[Ranjit Mallick]], [[Abhishek Chatterjee]]
| [[Anup Sengupta]]
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0271545|title=Hitler (1996)}}

{{Siddique (director)}}

[[Category:1996 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:1990s Malayalam-language films]]
[[Category:1990s comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Siddique]]
[[Category:Malayalam films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:1996 comedy films]]
[[Category:1996 drama films]]
[[Category:Indian comedy-drama films]]

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