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Ishtam
File:Ishtam.jpg
Directed bySibi Malayil
Produced byDavid Kachappally
Written byKalavoor Ravikumar
StarringDileep
Navya Nair
Nedumudi Venu
Jayasudha
Innocent
Sreenivasan
Music byMohan Sitara
CinematographyVenugopal
Edited byL. Bhoominathan
Release date
  • 5 October 2001 (2001-10-05)
Running time
158 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Ishtam (transl. Love ) is a 2001 Indian Malayalam-language romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sibi Malayil and written by Kalavoor Ravikumar. It stars Dileep and Navya Nair (in her acting debut), with Nedumudi Venu, Innocent, Sreenivasan, and Jayasudha appearing in supporting roles. The music was composed by Mohan Sitara. Ishtam was remade in Hindi as Mere Baap Pehle Aap by Priyadarshan.[1]

Plot[edit | edit source]

Pawan, whose mother died twenty four years ago when he was a child, lives with his father Krishnankutty Menon, a rich businessman. His father frequently and hilariously gets in trouble with the police officer Mariamma, mostly due to his best friend, Narayanan. Anjana meets Pavan whom he ragged her and cut her hair for which she left the college. So Anjana plans to take a sweet revenge by making a false call. After all those fun incidents, Anjana meets Pavan and then Pavan regret for his mischief he had done to Anjana and then they both become friends. Anjana lives with an spinster music teacher, Sridevi.At Anjana's friend's marriage, Krishnankutty Menono saw Sridevi and it turns out that Krishnankutty Menon and Sridevi were actually star-crossed lovers when they were young. Pavan, Anjana, Narayanan and Pavan's brother, Vipin plans to reunite them after all these years - and in the process, Pavan and Anjana discover their feelings for each other as well.

Cast[edit | edit source]

  • Dileep as Pavan K Menon aka Pavi
  • Navya Nair as Anjana Pillai(Rose), Pavi's childhood friend
  • Nedumudi Venu as Krishnankutty Menon, father of Pavi and Vipin
  • Jayasudha as Sreedevi Teacher
  • Sreenivasan as Vipin K Menon
  • Innocent as Narayanan, friend of Krishnankutty Menon
  • Balachandra Menon as Gokul Das (Anjana Pillai's Father)
  • Suma Jayaram as Girija Menon
  • Jyothirmayi as Jyothi
  • Kalpana as Mariamma Thomas
  • Arun Ghosh as Jyothi's Husband
  • Deepika Mohan as Jyothi's Mother
  • Niyas Backer as Babukuttan
  • Bindhu Krishna

Soundtrack[edit | edit source]

The film's soundtrack contains 8 songs, all composed by Mohan Sitara and Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri and sachidanandan puzhankara

# Title Singer(s) Raga(s)
1 "Chanchala" K. S. Chitra

Brindabani Sarang

2 "Ishtam Ishtam" Chorus
3 "Kaliparayum" Sunil
4 "Kandu Kandu" Dhanya Kapi
5 "Kandu Kandu" Dr. K. J. Yesudas

Kapi

6 "Kanumpol" Dr. K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chitra Kalyani
7 "Kanumpol" Dr. K. J. Yesudas Kalyani
8 "Vattathil" Sunil

Box office[edit | edit source]

The film was commercial success.[2]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Ishtam Review | Ishtam Malayalam Movie Review by K. T. Thomas". March 2002.
  2. Unni R. Nair (4 January 2002). "Let down". Screen India. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007.

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