| Oru Cheru Punchiri | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | M. T. Vasudevan Nair |
| Produced by | Jisha John |
| Written by | Sriramana (Story) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Screenplay) |
| Starring | Oduvil Unnikrishnan Nirmala Sreenivasan |
| Music by | Johnson |
| Cinematography | Sunny Joseph |
| Editing by | Beena Paul |
| Studio | Chithranjali Studio, Thiruvananthapuram |
| Release date(s) | September 2000 |
| Running time | 89 mins |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Oru Cheru Punchiri (Malayalam: ഒരു ചെറു പുഞ്ചിരി; English: A Slender Smile) is a 2000 Malayalam film written and directed by M.T. Vasudevan Nair. This is his sixth film as a director.[1] The film stars Oduvil Unnikrishnan and Nirmala Sreenivasan in the lead roles. The film is based on Telugu writer Sriramana's short story Mithunam.
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Oru Cheru Punchiri tells the story of a retired estate manager Krishna Kuruppu (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) in his mid seventies and his wife Ammalukutty (Nirmala Sreenivasan) in her mid sixties continuing their married life in a honeymoon mood. This couple wake up to romantic mornings dense with sweet herbal aroma with the melodious music of birds as the background. They spend their time engaged in games of mischief and even some social activities that they could manage. They make it clear that they would never surrender to the plea of their children coated in love, to sell the ancestral property in the village and move to the city with them. They are happy doing agriclture in the land they own. They have some good neighbours in Janu (Roslyn), her daughter Malathi (sindhu) and helper-boy Kannan (Master Vignesh). Krishna Kuruppu was instrumental in Janu getting a sweeper's job in the Urban bank there. He also sponsors for Kannan's education. Krishna Kuruppu helps Bhaskaran (Jayakrishnan) get a job in the estate he worked. He also arranges the marriage of Bhaskaran and Nirmala. He also supports the love affair of his grand-daughter Beena (Lena) with a Muslim youth.
The movie ends with Ammalukutty's decision to continue with this celebration of life even after the death of Krishna Kuruppu.
The film was shot on the banks of the Periyar River at Parappuran, Puthiyedam, Chowwara, Sreemoolanagaram, and Aluva in Kochi, India.
Oru Cheru Punchiri at the Internet Movie Database