| Daddy Cool | |
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| Directed by | Aashiq Abu |
| Produced by | Bose Kurian Alwyn Antony |
| Written by | Aashiq Abu Dialogues: Bipin Chandran |
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| Music by | Bijibal |
| Cinematography | Sameer Thahir |
| Editing by | V. Sajan |
| Studio | Ananya Films Marikar Films |
| Distributed by | Marikar Release |
| Release date(s) | August 7, 2009 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Budget | 3 crore |
| Box office | 10 crore |
Daddy Cool is a 2009 Malayalam film starring Mammootty, Richa Pallod and Master Dhananjay. The film was the directorial debut of Aashiq Abu.
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The story line of the film is the escapades of a cricket crazy kid, all of eight years and his father, a cop. Antony Simon (Mammootty) is a crime branch CI, but prefers to spend his time fooling around with his son Aadi (Dhananjay). And being a Crime Branch Police Officer, his rather laid-back attitude is not appreciated by his peers and superiors. Richa Pallod portrays his wife who finds this just irritating.
The father-son duo becomes friends with the famous national cricketer Sreekanth (Govind Padmasurya) when they save him from some street fight. Once while the father-son duo was out for shopping, Adhi saw a man with the gun and screams at his father. Simon turns back and shoots him but he kills the wrong person. Simon now faces murder charges and is suspended from duty.
Later that day, Aadhi is found missing. Simon being a cop, the entire police force in the district is in search. They finds that the one who was killed by Simon was part of the gang who were trying to get Sreekanth into a match-fixing deal and now they are trying to get revenge on Simon for killing one of their gang members. The rest of the film is how Simon fights the gang and gets his kid back from them.
The film has received mostly average to positive reviews and is deemed as a family entertainer. Malayalam film review site "zonkerala" has given this film a rating of 3 out of a maximum of 5.[1] At the website forumkerala.com the verdict for the film has been given as "Average".[2]
The film had a good initial collection, however could not sustain and it became only an average grosser. It got a share of 2.1 cores in 10 days and ran 50 days in 8 centers and 58 days in 3 centers.
The film features a successful soundtrack, consisting of 6 songs, composed by Bijibal. The songs were poor adaptions from pop star Michael Jackson's famous songs and the album was claimed dedicated to him; after several allegations; even though the album released before the death of the Pop Legend.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Artist(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Daddy Cool" | R. Venugopal | Gayatri Suresh | |
| 2. | "Daddy My Daddy" | Santhosh Varma | Swetha Mohan, Sanand Unnithan, Aditya Krishna, Amrutha Krishna, Anju Bhaskaran | |
| 3. | "Kadha" | Anil Panachooran | Bijibal | |
| 4. | "Kadhayoru" | Anil Panachooran | Hariharan | |
| 5. | "Samba" | Santhosh Varma | Jassie Gift | |
| 6. | "Samba Salsa" | Santhosh Varma | Anuradha Sriram, Jassie Gift |