Chandranudikkunna Dikhil

Chandranudikkunna Dikhil (1999)

ചന്ദ്രനുദിക്കുന്ന ദിക്കിൽ

Mukudan comes to a rural town to start his job as the local bank field officer. Through a series of events ,he meets and falls in love with Radha and plans to get married. But fate changes the course and outcome of their life and love.

Date of release
1999-11-14
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (8)
Runtime
2h 34m
Genres
Drama
Director
Lal Jose

Casting

Interesting facts

Chandranudikkunna Dikkil is a 1999 Indian Malayalam-language romantic drama film directed by Lal Jose and written by Babu Janardhanan and produced by Milan Jaleel under his banner Galaxy Films. It stars Dileep, Samyuktha Varma, Kavya Madhavan(in her first lead role), Lal, Biju Menon, Jagadish, and Innocent. The music was composed by Vidyasagar.

Production

After debuting with Oru Maravathoor Kanavu (1998), Lal Jose decided to direct his next film without any major stars to circumvent criticism that his "previous film was a one hit wonder". During the dubbing of Oru Maravathoor Kanavu, Milan Jaleel, came to Jose and offered a film, preferably with Dileep in the lead role, as he had offered him dates. Lal Jose was given an initial advance of ₹60,000.

Lal Jose had developed a story called Marana Certificate, which revolved around a family after the death certificate of a family member who had absconded so that they could claim his will. On the 53rd day of Oru Maravathoor Kanavu's theatrical run, Jose met with Sreenivasan at the Grand Hotel, where the latter was staying and discussed the thread with him. Impressed, Sreenivasan agreed to write a script based on the idea.

Afterward, Jose started discussions on a story with Babu Janardhanan at Shornur Guest House. They eventually developed the story into Chandranudikkunna Dikkil. The title of the film was based on the title of a song. They had initially decided to cast Dileep as the protagonist and Shalini as the main heroine. During this time Lal Jose was offered a film by Alleppey Ashraf, whose script was written by Fazil under the latter's production house.

Lal Jose traveled to Chennai to meet Shalini's father to narrate the story. However, he had not given any specific dates to her father. However, Shalini had later been booked for Kamal's Niram (1999), which was happening at around the same time.

Manju Warrier (who had by then married Dileep) suggested that Jose look for a new actress for the role. During this time, at Shornur Guest House, Jose met Kavya Madhavan and her mother, who were shooting for Kattathoru Penpoovu (1998). Lal Jose had known the family since Pookkalam Varavayi (1991), in which he was assistant director.

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