Kaiyethum Doorath
| Kaiyethum Doorath | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Fazil |
| Produced by | Fazil |
| Written by | Fazil |
| Starring |
Fahadh Faasil Nikita Revathy Mammootty (cameo) |
| Music by | Ouseppachan |
| Cinematography | Anandakuttan |
| Edited by | T. R. Sekhar |
Release date | 12 April 2002 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Kaiyethum Doorath(English:Within the hand's reach), alternatively called also as Kai Ethum Doorathu is a 2002 Malayalam romance film written, directed and produced by Fazil. It was the debut film of Fazil's son Fahadh Faasil(rechristened as Shanu) and Nikita Thukral, who played the title roles. Mammootty played a cameo role in the movie.
Plot
Sachin Madhavan alias Sachu (Fahadh Faasil) is a talented young gentleman who comes to a hill station for a short term Computer course. He stays with a distant relative, Prof. Sadasivan (Rajan P Dev). Professor invites him for a birthday party. When Sachu leaves for shopping he meets a girl Sushma (Nikitha) and falls love with her prima facie. They meet again in the birthday party and sing and dance together. On his way back home sachu comes across Kundara Sharangan (Cochin Haneefa) who is the paramour of Miss. Vasundhara. Later Sachu is approached by Sushma and friends for a helping hand in the dance competition they are about to perform. They fear of a highjack, as the judge of the program, Mr. Kundara Sharangan, has been bribed by the captain of their rival team. Sachu promises to help them. He knavishly takes a photo of Kundara Sharangan's and Vasundhara's illicit relationship. Sachu shows it and threatens him that, he will reveal his secrets if he acts not honestly in making the verdict in the contest. Sachu composes a mindblowing song and impressive steps for his friends and Sushma's team taste victory. Sachu tells about his stardust on Sushma to Appunni (Harisree Ashokan), who is a travelling salesman of home-made sweets and pickles. Later Sushma comes and greets Sachu for his kind help. Sachu demands a beautiful evening of Sushma. Tony (Sudheesh), one among the crew of Sushma sees this meeting and he smells a rat. He informs this to others. Later, Sachu comes to know from Prof. sadasivan that Sushma stays with her aunt and comes from a broken family. Her father Babunath (Siddique) and mother Dr. Omana Babunath (Revathy) are well settled, said to be separated and living abroad. They want to legally get divorced after their only daughter gets married. They have found Dr. Kishore, who works in the US as Sushma's future life-partner. Anyhow Sachin loves her deeply but never reveals his feeling. They again meet in a restaurant and Sachu tries not to expresses his feelings. Sushma's friends secretly watches it and they make sure that Sachu and Sushma nurtures an affair.Both become great friends and they share a very special relationship. Sushma's aunt develops doubts about the nexus between them and she informs this to Sushma's mother Dr. Omana. She arrives from Kuwait for her engagement. Sushma however agrees for the marriage provided her father too comes for the function. But her overprotective mother assumes that she is in love with Sachin and provokes her to tell a lie that she loves Sachin. She convinces Sachin also to tell the same lie and help her unite her parents. They run away with the help of Sachins friends and stay somewhere away from home. Slowly Sushma too starts falling in love with Sachin.
One day, an advocate Gopi (Mammootty) comes to see them and agrees to help them. He tells Sachin the truth that Sushmas father is dying of some bone marrow disease and his last wish is to see his daughter married to the guy whom he has selected. So he hands over Sushma to her mother. The story is told in a flashback when Sachin is on his way to attend his lovers marriage as he tells his past to the co-passengers on a ferryboat who gets hooked on to his love story. What happens at the marriage forms the interesting twist in this love story.[1]
Cast
- Fahadh Faasil as Sachin Madhavan
- Nikitha as Sushama
- Sudheesh as Tony
- Revathy as Dr. Omana Babunath
- Siddique as Babunath
- Mammootty as Adv. Gopinath(cameo)
- Harishree Ashokan as Appunni
- Cochin Haneefa as Kundara Sharangan
- Janardanan as Passenger in the Boat
- Augustine as Passenger in the Boat
- Rajan P. Dev as Sadasivan
- K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Bhanumathi
- Yadukrishnan as Vijayaraghavan
- Narayanankutty as Passenger in the boat
- Vishnu Prasad as Hari
- Jolly Easo as Ramani
Soundtrack
The film's soundtrack contains 8 songs, all composed by Ouseppachan and Lyrics by S. Ramesan Nair.
| # | Title | Singer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Aadyamaay" | Rajesh Vijay |
| 2 | "Akkayyilikkayyille" | K. J. Yesudas |
| 3 | "Aravindanayana" | Sujatha Mohan |
| 4 | "Asalasalaay" | M. G. Sreekumar, Biju Narayanan, Franco, Gopi Sundar |
| 5 | "Gokulathil" | K. S. Chitra, Vidhu Prathap |
| 6 | "Poove Oru Manimutham" | Sujatha Mohan, Dr. Fahadh |
| 7 | "Priyasakhi" | K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chitra |
| 8 | "Vasantharaavin" | Sujatha Mohan, Vijay Yesudas |