Diamond Necklace (film)

Diamond Necklace
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Directed by	Lal Jose
Produced by	P. V. Pradeep
Written by	Dr. Iqbal Kuttippuram
Starring	Fahadh Faasil Anusree Gauthami Nair Samvrutha Sunil Rohini Satheesh Menon
Music by	Vidyasagar
Cinematography	Sameer Thahir
Edited by	Ranjan Abraham
Production company	LJ films Anitha Productions
Distributed by	LJ films & PJ Entertainments
Release date	4 May 2012 (2012-05-04)
Running time	157 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Diamond Necklace is a 2012 Malayalam film directed by Lal Jose, starring Fahadh Faasil, Anusree, Samvrutha Sunil, and Gauthami Nair in the lead roles. Nair and Faasil won Filmfare awards for their roles. Composer Vidyasagar won a Filmfare award as well. This movie tells the life story of Dubai-based oncologist Dr. Arun Kumar and the end of his luxurious life after meeting three women from different lifestyles.

Plot

Arun Kumar (Fahadh Faasil) is a young Oncologist based in Dubai. He lives off of credit cards, drives luxurious cars and enjoys life to the hilt without worrying about the future. The risk of such a lifestyle comes into focus when we see his car being towed by his creditors. His upmarket lifestyle is like a house of cards. Due to his excess use of credit cards he falls into debt.

The movie also focuses on his relationship with the people around him. There is Savithri Akka (Rohini), his boss in the hospital who spoils him with sisterly affection. Lakshmi (Gauthami Nair), a newly recruited Tamil nurse in his department, may be the first girl Arun is seriously smitten with. Lakshmi ahas come to Dubai to fulfill her mother's dream of building a hospital in their village, as her father died due to lack of proper treatment. Arun and Lakshmi secretly start dating and end up having an extramarital affair.

Meanwhile, Maya (Samvrutha Sunil) a relative of Savithri, a fashion designer who was based in the UK and Paris and now settled in Dubai, wants to start her own boutique in Dubai. Maya is engaged to Deepak, who is in France. Maya is diagnosed with cancer and treated by Savithri. Deepak leaves her due to her illness, leaving Maya depressed. While moving Maya's belongings to the ward, Arun notices a diamond necklace worth 7 million Indian rupees.

One day, Arun comes to know through Venu (Sreenivasan), a laborer from his town in Kerala, that his mother is not well. Arun cannot leave the country due to his creditors. He gets to meet Narayanan (Manian Pillai Raju), who also happens to be from his place. Through Narayanan's influence, Arun is granted permission to leave the country. When he arrives in India, he is tricked into marrying Narayanan's niece, Rajasree (Anusree). Rajasree is a typical "village" girl who has no clue about city life.

When he comes back he finds out his friend's family has returned and he can no longer stay with him. He goes searching for a space, but finds that he does not have enough money to pay the advance. He moves to the labor camp with where Venu is staying. Lakshmi learns that Arun is married and puts an end to their relationship. He ends up staying with Maya, who is searching for a person to share her spacious flat. Arun and Maya develop a liking for each other. Maya is unaware of the fact that Arun is married. Savithri forces Arun to vacate Maya's flat and bring Rajasree to Dubai. Arun vacates Maya's flat, he brings his wife Rajasree to Dubai, and the couple starts staying together.

Maya and Arun see each other on Maya's last day in her flat and they have sex as Maya is unaware of Arun's marriage with Rajasree. A few days later Maya happens to see Arun and Rajasree together in a mall. This leaves Maya mentally shocked and her illness further aggravates. Injecting morphine, a pain reliever, is the only option. Upon Maya's request to relieve her pain, Arun injects an excess dose of morphine. Arun, to pay off his dues, steals Maya's diamond necklace and replaces it with a fake one. Meanwhile, Maya admits that she is sorry to have entered into Arun's life and falls asleep. Rajasree, on finding the diamond necklace, thinks it is her birthday gift from her husband Arun.

Maya develops complications from the overdose and narrowly escapes death. Lakshmi, who is on duty at that time and had injected an initial dose of the pain reliever, is dismissed from duty. Maya leaves the hospital leaving a gift cover with Savithri to be given to Rajasree by her husband, Arun. When Arun opens the cover the gift eventually turns out to be the fake diamond necklace that he replaced.

Arun drops Lakshmi at the airport, and puts the original diamond necklace into her bag, so that she can fulfill the dream that she and her mother had seen, the hospital. Although she lost her hair as a result of the treatments, she now shown living a lonely but happy and content life at some remote Himalayan valley remembering Arun's words to live life without worrying about past and future.

The story ends with Arun realizing that Rajasree loved him more than the diamond necklace (the fake one, a fact that Rajasree was unaware of) that he had given her, when she throws it into the ocean to prove her love to him.

Cast

• Fahadh Faasil as Dr. Arun Kumar, an oncologist based in Dubai
• Anusree as Kalamandalam Rajasree Arun Kumar
• Samvrutha Sunil as Maya
• Gauthami Nair as Lakshmi,a Tamil native
• Sreenivasan as Venu, Arun's native
• Rohini as Dr. Savithri
• Maniyanpilla Raju as Narayana Menon
• Sreedevi Unni as Arun's mother
• Kailash as Sarath, a Keralite
• Shivaji Guruvayoor as Rajasree's father
• Sukumari as Rajasree's grandmother
• Mithun Ramesh as Basheer
• Thesni Khan as Santhamma's sister, Dr. Arun's co- worker
• Satheesh Menon as Thrissur Mathai
• Rama Devi as Omana
• Ninin as Pooja Shinde
• Jaya as Sumithra, Rajasree's mother
• Arunkumar as Shukkur
• Raj as Praveen
• Vettoor Sreedharan as Chandrettan
• Moideen Koya as Vijayan
• Asim as Jose
• Prashant Nair as neurologist
• Joy Alukkas as himself

Production

The movie has Fahadh Faasil in the lead, with three heroines played by Samvrutha Sunil,^[1] Gauthami Nair and Anushree. The movie was produced by Lal Jose and P. V. Pradeep, under the banners of LJ Films and Anitha Productions. Produced as a debut venture of his production house LJ films, the movie has him uniting with Ikbal Kuttipuram.^[2] The lyrics were written by Rafeeq Ahmed and the music was composed by Vidyasagar.^[3] The audiography was done by M. R. Rajakrishnan. It was widely reported that Amala Paul had agreed to play a female lead in the film,^[4] but she was later replaced by Gauthami Nair.^[5]

A few scenes of the film were shot inside and near Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

Soundtrack

The original soundtrack and background score were composed by Vidyasagar,^[6] who had collaborated with Lal Jose in his previous films. Rafeeq Ahammed wrote the lyrics for the songs.

All lyrics written by Rafeeq Ahammed.

For the composition, Vidyasagar received the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director in Malayalam and was also nominated for a SIIMA Award for Best Music Director.

Release and reception

The movie received mixed reviews. Rediff rated the film 3.5 out of 5 stars and concluded that "One can just end by saying that Lal Jose puts his might behind the change sweeping Malayalam Cinema of late and has come out with a Diamond Necklace that is not to be missed."^[7] Times of India gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and commented "it is a beautifully shot movie put together with some stirring moments and hearty one-liners by script writer Dr Iqbal Kuttipuram."^[8] Fassil won the Asianet Youth Icon Award for this film.

The Kochi Town Central Police registered a case against Fahadh Faasil for violation of the rule against public display of images of smoking. A poster of Diamond Necklace that showed him smoking a cigarette had been on display before the Kavitha Theatre since the film was released.^[9]

Box office

The film was a commercial success and collected a net of ₹5,70,00,000 at the box office. It ran over 150 days in theatres.^[10]

External links

• Diamond Necklace on IMDb

References