Daddy Cool (2009 Malayalam film)

Daddy Cool
Daddy Cool
	File:Daddy Cool Malayalam.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Aashiq Abu
Produced by	Bose Kurian; Alwyn Antony
Written by	Aashiq Abu ; Dialogues; Bipin Chandran
Starring	Mammootty; Dhananjay; Richa Pallod; Daniel Balaji; Biju Menon; Radhika; Govind Padmasoorya;
Music by	Bijibal
Cinematography	Sameer Thahir
Edited by	V. Sajan
Production; company	Ananya Films; Marikar Films
Distributed by	Marikar Release
Release date	7 August 2009;
Running time	157 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

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Daddy Cool is a 2009 Indian Malayalam-language action film starring Mammootty, Dhananjay, Richa Pallod, Daniel Balaji and Biju Menon in the lead roles. The film was the directorial debut of Aashiq Abu. The film commenced its shooting in December 2008. The locations were Cochin and Hong Kong.^[1]

The movie was released on August 19, 2015 worldwide got mixed reviews.

Synopsis[edit]

The story line of the film is the escapades of a cricket crazy kid, all of eight years and his father, a cop. Antony Simon (Mammootty) is a crime branch CI, but prefers to spend his time fooling around with his son Aadi (Dhananjay). And being a Crime Branch police officer, his rather laid-back attitude is not appreciated by his peers and superiors. Richa Pallod portrays his wife, who finds this irritating.

The father-son duo becomes friends with the famous national cricketer Sreekanth (Govind Padmasurya) when they save him from some street fight. Once while the father-son duo was out for shopping, Aadi saw a man with the gun and screams at his father. Simon turns back and shoots him, but he kills the wrong person. Simon now faces murder charges and is suspended from duty.

Later that day, Aadhi is found missing. Simon being a cop, the entire police force in the district is in search. They find that the one who was killed by Simon was the younger brother of the leader of a gang who were trying to get Sreekanth into a match-fixing deal, and now they are trying to get revenge on Simon for killing one of their gang members. They have abducted Aadi. The rest of the film is about how Simon fights the gang and gets his kid back from them with brave ways.

Cast[edit]

Mammootty as CI Antony Simon
Dhananjay as Adi Antony
Richa Pallod as Annie Simon
Daniel Balaji as Shiva
Ashish Vidyarthi as Bheem Bhai
Biju Menon as Roy
Vijayaraghavan as Dysp Varghese
Sai Kumar Shiva Prasad
Baburaj as Soman
Vinayakan as Shelvam, Shiva's henchman
Govind Padmasoorya as Sreekanth, a cricketer
Anoop Chandran as Kappal Basheer
Rajan P. Dev as Roy's father
P. Sreekumar as Annie's father
Ambika Mohan as Annie's mother
Radhika as Annie's sister
Babu Swamy
Gopakumar
Suraj Venjaramood as Ainkutty (cameo appearance)
Lena Kumar as Adi's class teacher (cameo appearance)
Bipin Chandran as The News Reader (cameo appearance)
Nikita Thukral as item number in the song "Saamba Salsa".

Production[edit]

The role of a cricketer was first offered to S. Sreesanth before it was given to Govind Padmasoorya.^[2]

Soundtrack[edit]

The film features a soundtrack, consisting of 6 songs, composed by Bijibal.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Artist(s)
1.	"Daddy Cool"	R. Venugopal	Gayatri Suresh
2.	"Daddy My Daddy"	Santhosh Varma	Swetha Mohan, Sanand Unnithan, Aditya Krishna, Amrutha Krishna, Anju Bhaskaran
3.	"Kadha"	Anil Panachooran	Bijibal
4.	"Kadhayoru"	Anil Panachooran	Hariharan
5.	"Samba"	Santhosh Varma	Jassie Gift
6.	"Samba Salsa"	Santhosh Varma	Anuradha Sriram, Jassie Gift

Reception[edit]

Sify rated the film 3/5 and noted that "In all fairness, Daddy Cool is meant to be a visual spectacle not to be taken with much seriousness. In the current form, it leaves you just cold or to a great extent, let down!".^[3] Paresh C. Palicha of Rediff rated the film 1.5/5 and opined that "Malayalam film Daddy Cool directed by newcomer Aashiq Abu is one more substandard film of Mammootty to hit the theatres in the recent times after Ee Pattanathil Bhootham".^[4]

References[edit]

↑ "Mammootty is Daddy Cool!". Rediff.
↑ Prakash, Asha (26 May 2013). "Sreesanth was offered a tainted cricketer's role in Daddy cool?". The Times of India.
↑ "Daddy Cool". Sify. 10 August 2009.
↑ C. Palicha, Paresh (10 August 2009). "This Daddy ain't cool". Rediff.

External links[edit]

[1] "Mammootty is Daddy Cool!". Rediff.

[2] Prakash, Asha (26 May 2013). "Sreesanth was offered a tainted cricketer's role in Daddy cool?". The Times of India.

[3] "Daddy Cool". Sify. 10 August 2009.

[4] C. Palicha, Paresh (10 August 2009). "This Daddy ain't cool". Rediff.

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