Hallo (2007 film)

Hallo
Hallo
Directed by	Rafi Mecartin
Produced by	Joy Thomas Shakthikulangara
Written by	Rafi Mecartin
Starring	Mohanlal Parvati Melton
Music by	Alex Paul
Cinematography	Sanjeev Shankar
Editing by	Don Max
Studio	Jithin Arts
Distributed by	Marikar Release
Release dates	5 July 2007
Running time	2 Hrs 25 mins
Country	India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	3.5 crores

Hallo is a 2007 Malayalam film written and directed by the Rafi Mecartin duo, starring Mohanlal, Parvathy Melton, Jagathy Sreekumar, Siddique, Ganesh Kumar, and Madhu.

Plot

Shivaraman (Mohanlal) is a once-brilliant advocate who now seems to be in a self-destructive mode. All the time he is portrayed in a highly intoxicated state. His clients had abandoned him a long time ago. But he has a very devout follower Chandy (Jagathi Sreekumar). Whenever Shivaraman gets into one of his drunken brawls, it is Chandy who rescues him.

Strangely, that doesn't diminish Shivaraman's public relation skills. After one particularly bad fight, he ends up becoming good buddies with three notorious rowdies in the area: Vadakkancherry Vakkachen (Sphadikam George), Bathery Babu (Bheeman Raghu) and Pattambi Ravi (Mohan Raj). Soon, they too join his gang of loyalists.

The reason why this once-hotshot advocate had hit the bottle is revealed later: he was in love with a girl named Priya (Samvrutha Sunil). But, his father and brother weren't happy about it. They come up with a very cruel way of ending the relationship. They lock Sivaraman in a room in the house on the day Shivaraman and Priya decided to elope. Priya, unaware of this happening waits for Shivaraman. A group of gangsters see Priya waiting late into the night, then kill her. When Shivaraman finds out about it, he is devastated and reacts by becoming an alcoholic.

Then one day, he receives a phone call on his mobile phone from a stranger named Parvathi (Parvathy Melton). She reveals that she is the daughter of a local Marwari banker. On the phone she tells him that her life is in grave danger and begs him to rescue her. The phone call changes his life...

Parvathi is the daughter of Bada Bhai (Madhu), the owner of a very successful bank - Dalal & Dalal. The bank is jointly owned by him and his brothers and relatives. They want to take control of the bank by killing Parvathi. When Shivaraman finds out that the threat is from her family, he takes her home and pretends to be her husband.

Then begins the battle of wits and muscles with her greedy relatives. Slowly, Parvathi gets impressed by his brilliance and ends up falling in love with him.

Cast

• Mohanlal as Adv. Shivaraman
• Parvati Melton as Parvathi
• Madhu as Bada Sahib
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Chandy
• Siddique as Mahesh Bhai
• Ganesh Kumar as Sudeesh Nambiar
• Janardhanan as Adv. Nambiar
• Jagadeesh as Adv. Jacob Thomas
• Spadikam George as Vadakkancherry Vakkachen
• Bheeman Raghu as Bathery Babu
• Mohan Raj as Pattambi Ravi
• Kundara Johny
• Salim Kumar as Chidambaram
• Ashokan as Sebastian
• Samvrutha Sunil as Priya
• Manka Mahesh Parvathi's kin
• Remadevi Parvathi's kin
• Asokhan
• Indhulekha as Alice
• Abu Salim
• Bindu Murali as a doctor
• Ambika Mohan as Parvathi's kin
• Maya Vishwanath Parvathi's kin

Reception

The film was released on 56 screens .^[1] According to Indiaglitz Hallo was one of the biggest hits of the year 2007 ^[2] and Oneindia placed it in the top 10 films of the year.^[3]

Remakes

The film was remade in Telugu as Naa style Veru with Rajasekhar and in Kannada as Manjunatha BA LLB with Jaggesh.

Music

The songs were composed by Alex Paul and the lyrics were written by Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma.

References

External links

• Hallo at the Internet Movie Database