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Thanthonni Poster featuring Prithviraj |
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| Directed by | Varghese |
| Produced by | Shahul Hameed Marikar |
| Written by | T A Shahid |
| Starring | Prithviraj Sheela Ambika Vijayaraghavan Suraj Venjaramood [] |
| Music by | Thej Mervin |
| Editing by | Bijith Bala |
| Distributed by | Marikar Films |
| Release date(s) | March 19, 2010 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Thanthonni (Malayalam: താന്തോന്നി) is a 2010 Malayalam-language film released on March 19, 2010. The film is directed by George Varghese, a former assistant to Joshy. Thanthonni stars Prithviraj and Sheela in the lead roles.
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Kochukunju(Prithviraj),is the spoilt son of the well known Vadakkan veettil family,situated in kannur.He is the son of Kathreena(Ambika),who believes that his formal father David(Saikumar)has died.Captain raju and Vijayaraghavan play the major old-age characters.In the film, Vijayaraghavan plays a double role both as Kochousepp,the ancestor of the family and one amongst his three sons.The female lead role has been played by Sheelakowl.Suraj Venjarammood plays Achu,Kochukunju's friend. Kochukunju is hated by everyone of his family,except his mother and his cousin sister Helen(Sheelakowl).At last,David returns,showing that he is still living
| Actor | Role |
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| Prithviraj | Vadakkanveetil Kochukunju |
| Sheela | Helen varghese |
| Suraj Venjaramood | Achu |
| Ambika | Kathreena |
| Suresh Krishna | Nelson |
| Vijayaraghavan | Kochousepp/his son |
| Saikumar | David |
| Jagathy Sreekumar | Dr.Thomas Vaidyan |
Shoot for the film started on November 6, 2009. The main locations were Kochi, Ottapalam, Pollachi and Dubai. The film wrapped up shooting by mid of January, 2010 and started post production. The publicity and promotions were being done by the Kochi based Shaz Shabeer of 'Strikers & Crew' who had also worked on Prithviraj's Puthiya Mukham.They introduced new marketing techniques like 2d cut out, cut out, netposter, dialogue caller tune, news scopes, live web launch. The assistant director to the director George Varghese was Anush Mohan
The film received negative reviews from the critics. nowrunning.com gave rating of 2 out of 5.
The film released on March 19, 2010.