Chithram

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Chithram
Directed by Priyadarshan
Starring Mohanlal,
Renjini
Music by Kannur Rajan
Release date(s) 1988
Language Malayalam
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Chithram (Translation: Picture) is a 1988 movie directed by Priyadarshan. The movie was remade in Hindi as Chori Chori with Midhun Chakravorthy in the lead.film ran for 366 days and considering the long run of a movie CHITHRAM is the biggest hit in malayalam cinema along with GODFATHER which ran for 423 days but after 112 days godfather was reduced to matinee show...

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Kalyani (Renjini) is the daughter of a wealthy NRI, who has property in Kerala. Kalyani, brought up in Kerala by her uncle Kaimal (Nedumudi Venu), falls in love and decides to marry against the wishes of her father. When her boyfriend finds out that she will be disinherited, he ditches her at the altar.

After a short while, her father decides to retract his disapproval and spend a fortnight's vacation with his daughter and son-in-law. Because her father is already ill and because this may be his last vacation, Kalyani and Kaimal want to make it as happy for him as possible. They decide to conceal the fact that her boyfriend dumped her.

They hire Vishnu (Mohanlal) to play the part of the husband for a fortnight. Meanwhile, another of her uncles who is caretaker of the property and expected to inherit it when Kalyani was disinherited is determined not to let go without a fight. He knows that Vishnu is not Kalyani's boyfriend and suspects that he is only acting. He makes various botched attempts to prove this. Vishnu and Kalyani are not getting along and keep bickering.

Over time, Kalyani begins to fall in love with Vishnu and hopes to marry him for real. Meanwhile, they have a mysterious visitor in (M.G. Soman), who claims to be a relative of Vishnu.

Vishnu finally reveals the truth about his past to Kalyani. Vishnu is actually an escaped convict from a jail in which (M.G. Soman) is the warden. Vishnu is a photographer and he was married to Lizy, a deaf mute dancer. They also have a child. Vishnu discovers that a man was visiting his wife when he was not around and begins to suspect her fidelity.

Coming home one day, he finds the man there and tried to attack him. Lizy dies in the scuffle that follows and he discovers that the man is her brother who has been involved in illegal activities. He regrets his anger and confesses to murdeing his wife. He tells Kalyani that he escaped to make money for a surgery on his child. He also reveals that the warden has come to arrest him but has delayed the arrest till her father leaves.

After a happy fortnight, Kalyani's father returns to the US, Vishnu goes to jail where the gallows await him and Kalyani takes custody of his child.

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[edit] Related Movies

  • Movies by the same director

Vandanam
Akkare Akkare Akkare
Kadathanadan Ambadi
Kilukkam
Alludugaru

  • Movies with the same personnel

Thoovanathumbikal

[edit] External links

Chithram at the Internet Movie Database