Su.. Su... Sudhi Vathmeekam

Su....Su.....Sudhi Vathmeekam
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ranjith Sankar
Produced by	Jayasurya Ranjith Sankar
Screenplay by	Abhayakumar
Story by	Sudheendran Avittathoor
Starring	Jayasurya Shivada Nair Swathy Narayanan Aju Varghese
Music by	Bijibal
Cinematography	Vinod Illampally
Edited by	V.Saajan
Production company	Dreams N Beyond
Distributed by	Central Pictures Release
Release date	20 November 2015 (2015-11-20)
Running time	134 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Su.. Su... Sudhi Vathmeekam is a 2015 Malayalam comedy-drama film directed, co-written and co-produced by Ranjith Sankar. The film stars Jayasurya in a lead role, who also co-produced the film under Dreams N Beyond. Vinod Illampally has done the cinematography and Bijibal has composed the score and soundtrack. The screenplay was written by Abhayakumar. The central character is inspired from a real-life person named Sudheendran. The film released on November 20, 2015 to positive reviews.^[1][2]

Plot

The movie expands with the theme of a person struggling with stammering. The person is Sudhi. The movie starts with Sudhi(Jayasurya) coming to the bank in which he serves as the branch manager to check the making of a movie which stars Mukesh and Greagon(Aju Varghese), Sudhi's old friend. The shooting of the movie is delayed and Sudhi gets tagged with Mukesh to reach his hometown. On the way Mukesh warms up to Sudhi and Sudhi tells Mukesh about his troubles in childhood and youth caused by stammering and how he overcame it. Sudhi reaches his hometown for a function in a school where he earlier worked. Mukesh alights and meets with the characters in Sudhi's story and learns Sudhi has married the speech therapist who at first caused troubles for him and later motivated him to live life without fear. Mukesh leaves happily for his next shooting and Sudhi rekindles with his hometown.

Cast

• Jayasurya as Sudhi Vathmeekam / Sudhi
• Sshivada as Kalyani, a Speech Therapist
• Swathy Narayanan as Sheela
• Mukesh as himself
• Aju Varghese as Greagon
• Arjun Nandhakumar as Mohan
• Anson Paul as Vijay babu
• Sunil Sukhada as Holistic Doctor
• Irshad as Kurup
• TG Ravi as Sudhi's father
• K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Sudhi's mother
• Ranjith Sankar as film director (cameo)
• Sathi Premji as Kalyani's Grandmother
• Suja Menon as Nirmala
• Muthumani as Sreedevi, School Principal
• Tara Ranjith Sankar as Junior Tara Menon
• Roshni Singh as Senior Tara Menon
• Advaith Jayasurya as Sudhi in Childhood
• Gokulan as Mukesh's Assistant

Production

The film initial planning began in 2000, the director then announced this project was going to be his next one after his film Arjunan Saakshi. But, the film materialized after the director's fifth film Varsham, he announced it would star Jayasurya as the titular role, who had earlier worked with him in his film Punyalan Agarbattis in which he had co-produced. The film began shooting in the summer of 2015 and was released on 20 November 2015. The filming began in August 2015 in Bangalore. The crew shot in various locations including Erode, Coimbatore, Alathur and Palakkad. Ranjith Sankar wrote on his blog that this was a film he wanted to make for a long time. Jayasurya and Ranjith last teamed up for Punyalan Agarbattis.^[3]

Box office

The film collected ₹6.55 crore (US$1.0 million) in seven days of release and ₹3.36 crore (US$520,000) in seven days.^[4] It earned ₹6.08 crore (US$950,000) within 18 days of initial release.

Soundtrack

The film's background score and songs are composed by Bijibal. Lyrics for the songs are written by Santhosh Varma. P Jayachandran, Swetha Mohan and Ganesh Sundaram are the principal singers. The music was released through the label Muzik 247.

Awards

National Film Awards

• National Film Award – Special Mention (actor) - Jayasurya^[5]

Kerala State Film Awards

• Special Jury Award - Jayasurya

References

External links

• Su.. Su... Sudhi Vathmeekam on IMDb