Varavelpu (1989)
വരവേൽപ്പ്
Murali returns to his home in Kerala after working in the Gulf for seven years. He decides to settle in his hometown, but things do not go as expected.
- Date of release
- 1989-03-31
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 2h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Sathyan Anthikad
Casting
- Mohanlal — Murali
- Revathi — Rama
- Murali — Prabhakaran
- Sreenivasan — Vehicle Inspector
- Innocent — Chathukutty
- Krishnankutty Nair
- Oduvil Unnikrishnan — Narayanan
- Janardhanan — Kumaran
- KPAC Lalitha — Santha
- Meena — Rukmini
- Bobby Kottarakkara — Pappan
- Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair — 'Apal bandavan' Govindan Nair
Interesting facts
Varavelpu (transl. Welcoming) is a 1989 Indian Malayalam-language black comedy film directed by Sathyan Anthikad and written by Sreenivasan, starring Mohanlal, Revathi, Sreenivasan, Thilakan, Murali, Innocent, and Jagadish. The film was produced by K. Rajagopal. It depicted trade union problems plaguing Kerala and the issues created by union members and the dirty politics which is prevalent in present governance and is narrated in a satirical dark comedy
Production
The film was based on a real-life incident in Sreenivasan's father's life. Sathyan Anthikkad got the story idea while listening to Sreenivasan when he recalled how his family ended in financial debt as his communist father was labeled a capitalist after he bought a bus.
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