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'''''Pavam Pavam Rajakumaran''''' ({{Translation|The Poor Prince}}) is a 1990 Indian [[Malayalam]]-language film directed by [[Kamal (director)|Kamal]] and written by [[Sreenivasan]]. The film is based on the short story ''Kottu Baakki'' by [[S. K. Pottekkatt|S. K. Pottekkad]]. This film stars [[Sreenivasan]], [[Rekha (Tamil actress)|Rekha]], [[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]], [[Jagadish]] and [[Maniyanpilla Raju]]. [[Jayaram]] appears in an extended guest role in the film, which was a huge hit at the box office.<ref name="Remake malayalam">{{cite web | url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-27/news-interviews/30559342_1_agneepath-ravi-teja-s-telugu-chashme-buddoor | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224110215/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-27/news-interviews/30559342_1_agneepath-ravi-teja-s-telugu-chashme-buddoor | url-status=dead | archive-date=24 February 2013 | work=[[The Times of India]] | title=Remake malayalam | accessdate=3 August 2013}}</ref> The sub-plots of the movie were used in the 1991 Tamil movie ''[[Gopura Vasalile]]''.
'''''Pavam Pavam Rajakumaran''''' ({{Translation|The Poor Prince}}) is a 1990 Indian [[Malayalam]]-language [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[Kamal (director)|Kamal]] and written by [[Sreenivasan]]. The film is based on the short story ''Kottu Baakki'' by [[S. K. Pottekkatt|S. K. Pottekkad]]. This film stars [[Sreenivasan]], [[Rekha (Tamil actress)|Rekha]], [[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]], [[Jagadish]] and [[Maniyanpilla Raju]]. [[Jayaram]] appears in an extended guest role in the film, which was a huge hit at the box office.<ref name="Remake malayalam">{{cite web | url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-27/news-interviews/30559342_1_agneepath-ravi-teja-s-telugu-chashme-buddoor | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224110215/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-27/news-interviews/30559342_1_agneepath-ravi-teja-s-telugu-chashme-buddoor | url-status=dead | archive-date=24 February 2013 | work=[[The Times of India]] | title=Remake malayalam | accessdate=3 August 2013}}</ref> The sub-plots of the movie were used in the 1991 Tamil movie ''[[Gopura Vasalile]]''.


==Plot==
==Plot==


The film is about 4 [[parallel college]] teachers - Gopalakrishnan, Aravindan, Sujanapalan and Gangan who reside in the same rented house. Gopalakrishnan is a miser and apart from sharing the rent, does not contribute money for any household or luxury items. Due to Gopalakrishnan's bizarre and timid personality, his friends along with Shankaran, fool him by posting him love letters in the name of a fictitious girl named Radhika and thus making him buy what they want, including chairs and a television. Gopalakrishnan meets Radhika - a banker working near his college and mistakes it to be the one who has been posting him the love letters. There is a change in Gopalakrishnan's frugal behaviour and his friends enjoy by posting love letters regularly.
The film is about 4 [[parallel college]] teachers - Gopalakrishnan ([[Sreenivasan]]), Aravindan ([[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]]), Sujanapalan ([[Jagadish]]) and Gangan ([[Maniyanpilla Raju]]) who reside in the same rented house. Gopalakrishnan, who is the [[Hindi]] teacher, is a miser and apart from sharing the rent, does not contribute money for any household or luxury items, even in dangerous or urgent situations. Due to Gopalakrishnan's uncooperative and miserly behaviour and his weakness that he is searching girls for marriage, his friends decide to fool him by posting him love letters in the name of a fictitious girl named Radhika and kick him out of the house, allowing them to fulfil their desires. They succeed in making him believe that a girl named Radhika has fallen for him.


Gopalakrishnan gradually develops an intimate relationship with Radhika, but all his efforts to meet her are in vain. When he actually meets Radhika, whom he believes to be in love with her cousin Ashok, she fails to identify him and treats him as a maniac. Gopalakrishnan understands that his friends had fooled him and assures Radhika that he will not meet her again. Heartbroken, he leaves his job and the city. Aravindan, Sujanapalan and Gangan feel guilty for what they have done and fail to find Gopalakrishnan.  
Gopalakrishnan sees and secretly follows a woman, finds out her name is Radhika ([[Rekha (South Indian actress)|Rekha]]) and that she is a banker working near his college after his friends post him a letter saying she uses a certain bus service. He mistakes her to be the one who has been posting him the love letters. Upon finding some information about Radhika, they persuade Shankarettan ([[Mamukkoya]]), the alcoholic peon in the bank where Radhika works, to help them write the letters. They make sure that he never meets Radhika personally through their letters, and to give anything he buys for her or any letters he writes to her Shankarettan. There is a change in Gopalakrishnan's frugal behaviour and his friends enjoy by posting love letters regularly, making him buy what they want, including chairs and a television under the pretext that Radhika had come to their house and she wanted such facilities, and alcohol by claiming it was for her drunk father and taking it for themselves through Shankarettan. They succeed in covering it up from Gopalakrishnan initially.


After 5 years, Aravindan receives a letter from Gopalakrishnan inviting him and his friends to [[Lovedale, India|Lovedale]], a hill station in [[Tamil Nadu]]. It is from this point that the film actually begins. When they arrive at Lovedale, Gopalakrishnan attempts to murder them, but then forgives them, and they are pleasantly surprised to see Gopalakrishnan and Radhika being happily married. Gopalakrishnan reveals that he got a job in Lovedale as a teacher and accidentally met Radhika, who was posted in Lovedale as a banker. It was destiny which made them meet again and get married.
He gradually develops an intimate relationship with Radhika, but all his efforts to meet her are in vain. He decides to commit suicide when his mother refuses to his marriage with Radhika, but she later agrees. The matter starts to lose control of the three men when he actually meets Radhika, whom he believes to be in love with her cousin Ashok ([[Jayaram]]), she fails to identify him and treats him as a maniac. Her father K. K. Menon ([[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]]) whom he had believed to be a drunk turns out to be an abstainer, and tries to assault him when he tells him to drink. Gopalakrishnan understands that his friends had fooled him and assures Radhika that he will not meet her again. Heartbroken, he leaves his job and the city. Aravindan, Sujanapalan and Gangan feel guilty for what they have done and fail to find Gopalakrishnan. They believe he has committed suicide.
 
After 5 years, Aravindan receives a letter from Gopalakrishnan inviting him and his friends to [[Lovedale, India|Lovedale]], a hill station in [[Tamil Nadu]]. It is from this point that the film actually begins. He calls Sujanapalan, who calls Gangan. All are shocked to hear he is alive, and decide to go. The rest of the story is shown as a flashback through their conversation. When they arrive at Lovedale, Gopalakrishnan threatens to murder them, but forgives them. They are pleasantly surprised to see Gopalakrishnan and Radhika being happily married. Gopalakrishnan reveals that he got a job in Lovedale as a teacher and accidentally met Radhika, who was posted in Lovedale as a banker. It was destiny which made them meet again and get married.


==Cast==
==Cast==
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* [[Sreenivasan]] as P. K. Gopalakrishnan
* [[Sreenivasan]] as P. K. Gopalakrishnan
* [[Rekha (Tamil actress)|Rekha]] as Radhika Menon
* [[Rekha (Tamil actress)|Rekha]] as Radhika Menon
* [[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]] as Aravindan Master
* [[Siddique (actor)|Siddique]] as Aravindan
* [[Jagadish]] as Sujanapalan Master
* [[Jagadish]] as Sujanapalan  
* [[Maniyanpilla Raju]] as Gangadharan Master
* [[Maniyanpilla Raju]] as Gangadharan
* [[Mamukkoya]] as Sankarettan
* [[Mamukkoya]] as Sankarettan
* [[Jayaram]] as Ashok (Cameo appearance)
* [[Jayaram]] as Ashok (Cameo appearance)
* [[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] as K. K. Menon, Radhika's father who claims to be a Gandhian but tries to use violence on Gopalakrishnan for telling him to drink
* [[Innocent (actor)|Innocent]] as K. K. Menon, Radhika's father
* [[Oduvil Unnikrishnan]] as Principal Kurup
* [[Oduvil Unnikrishnan]] as Principal Kurup
* [[K. P. A. C. Lalitha]] as Sarojini  
* [[K. P. A. C. Lalitha]] as Sarojini  
* [[Kottayam Santha]] as Gopalakrishnan's mother
* [[Kottayam Santha]] as Gopalakrishnan's mother
* [[James (Malayalam actor)|James]] as Postman
* [[Usha (actress)|Usha]] as Uma
* [[Usha (actress)|Usha]] as Uma
* [[James (Malayalam actor)|James]] as Postman
* [[Paravoor Bharathan]] as Broker Narayanan Nair
* [[Paravoor Bharathan]] as Broker Narayanan Nair
* [[Viji Thampi]] as Bank Staff
* [[Viji Thampi]] as Bank Staff
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