Kadathu

1981 Indian film

30 October 1981 (1981-10-30)

CountryIndiaLanguageMalayalam

Kadathu is a 1981 Indian Malayalam film, directed by P. G. Vishwambharan. The film stars Prem Nazir, Shankar, M. G. Soman and Roja Ramani in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Shyam.^[1]^[2]^[3] Actually, the script was penned by Priyadharshan. When the movie screened in the theaters, he noticed the credit had gone to the director himself.

Cast

Prem Nazir as Gopinath
Shankar as Rajappan
M. G. Soman as Ravi
Roja Ramani as Maalu
Sumalatha as Thulasi
Jagathy Sreekumar as Meesha Vasu Pilla
Adoor Bhasi as School Head Master
Alummoodan as School Peon Kittu Pilla
Baby Ponnambili
T. G. Ravi as Kaala Dhamu
Chembarathi Shobana
K. P. A. C. Azeez Police Officer
Bheeman Raghu
Nellikode Bhaskaran
Poojappura Ravi
Aryad Gopalakrishnan
Shubha as Sarala
Adoor Bhavani
Beena Kumbalangi

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Shyam and the lyrics were written by Bichu Thirumala.

No.	Song	Singers	Lyrics
1	"Manjanaathi Kunnummel"	S. Janaki	Bichu Thirumala
2	"Olangal Thaalam Thallumpol"	Unni Menon	Bichu Thirumala
3	"Premaragam Padivannoru"	S. Janaki	Bichu Thirumala
4	"Punnare Poonthinkale"	Unni Menon	Bichu Thirumala
5	"Vennilaacholayil"	S. Janaki, Unni Menon	Bichu Thirumala

Trivia

Priyadarshan approached producer Aroma M Mani with the first ever script he penned which was to be filmed by PG Vishwambharan but it was decided that a newcomer as a script writer would not fare well in the market so screenplay was credited to the director.

References

^ "Kadathu". www.malayalachalachithram.com. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
^ "Kadathu". malayalasangeetham.info. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
^ "Kadathe". spicyonion.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.