Bus Conductor (film)

Bus Conductor
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Directed by	V. M. Vinu
Produced by	P. Rajan
Written by	T. A. Razzaq
Starring	Mammootty Jayasurya Adithya Menon Bhavana Mamta Mohandas
Release date	23 December 2005 (2005-12-23)
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Bus Conductor is Malayalam film directed by V. M. Vinu. The film stars Mammootty as the male protagonist/hero with Adithya Menon, Jayasurya, Bhavana, Nikita Thukral, Mamta Mohandas, Innocent, Salim Kumar and Harisree Ashokan in supporting roles.

Plot

The story, set in the Malabar culture, revolves around Zakir Hussain aka Kunjakka (Mammootty). This bus conductor lords over the family that has a motley cast to it - mother (Bindu Panicker), sister (Poornima), her husband (Innocent), son (Jayasurya), daughters and his own sister Selina (Mamta Mohandas). Then there are his bus mates (Kalpana and Harisree Ashokan)and the villain police sub inspector Sajan George Adithya Menon.

Being a good man, Kunjakka is faced with all kinds of troubles and responsibility. On the one hand he has to take on the wily cop Sajan George, who also runs a bus company on the sly. Then the problems within the family come to hand. Najeeb's (Jayasurya) dalliance with a local girl (Bhavana) ends in her becoming pregnant. But Najeeb goes to Dubai leaving the girl in the lurch. So the responsibility of looking after her also falls on Kunjakka's shoulders. There are misunderstandings in the family and his only solace is Noorjahan (Nikita Thukral).

The story then is about how Kunjakka unties all the knots of distrust and disappointments. It is a story that is overweighed by treacle-soaked sentiments. In fact, the maudlin nature of the script makes you groan. Starting with Mammootty none of the artistes have let down the story. Every one chips in efficiently. But the director Vinu has chosen the wrong path. He gets himself tied up through over-the-top sentiments.

Music is by M. Jayachandran.

Cast

• Mammooty as Sultan Veetil Zakir Hussain aka Kunjakka
• Jayasurya as Najeeb
• Adithya Menon as Sub Inspector Sajan George
• Innocent as Majeed, Kunjakka's Brother-in-law
• Harisree Ashokan as Gangadharan, Kunjakka's close friend
• Bhavana as Sugandhi (Najeeb's lover)
• Mamta Mohandas as Selina
• Nikita Thukral as Noorjahan
• Babu Namboothiri
• Santhosh
• Bindu Panicker as Kunjakka's Mother
• Poornima Parameswaran as Kunjakka's Sister
• Arun Krishnan as Junior Kunjakka
• Ramu
• Abu Salim
• Suraj Venjaramoodu as Bus conductor
• Kalpana as Ambili
• Majeed as Shamsudheen(Selina's fiancée's father)
• Ambika Mohan as Shamsudheen's wife(Selina's fiancée's mother)
• Kulappulli Leela as Rajamma
• Sreedevi Unni as Sugandhi's mother
• Geetha Nair
• Deepika Mohan as doctor
• Jisna Ali as Najeeb's sister
• Nivia Rebin as Rajeswari
• Bindu Murali
• Thrissur Elsy

External links

• Bus Conductor on IMDb
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090620164227/http://popcorn.oneindia.in/title/2092/bus-conductor.html