Orissa (film)

Orissa is a 2013 Indian Malayalam-language romance film directed by M. Padmakumar. The film stars Unni Mukundan and Sanika Nambiar as the leads, with Kaniha and Tanusree Ghosh in supporting roles.^[1] Produced under the banner of Heera Films, Orissa is the story of a girl called Suneyi — played by Sanika Nambiar — her trials and tribulations.^[2][3] The film released on 17 May 2013.^[4]

Orissa
Directed by	M. Padmakumar
Written by	G.S Anil
Produced by	Madhavan Chettikkal Edappal
Starring	Unni Mukundan Nedumudi Venu Sanika Nambiar Swasika
Cinematography	Vinod Illambally
Music by	Ratheesh Vegha
Distributed by	Heera Films
Release date	17 May 2013 (2013-05-17)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Plot

The film was based on a Malayali constable Christhudas loving an Odia girl Suneyi.

Cast

• Unni Mukundan as Christhudas
• Sanika Nambiar as Suneyi
• Nedumudi Venu
• Kaniha as Chandrabhaga
• Tanushree Ghosh as Meerabhai
• Sudheesh
• Swasika
• Sadiq
• Shari as Christhudas's Mother
• Nigel Akkara as Kamadeva Pradhan^[5]
• Ganja Karuppu
• Sanjeev Chakraborty

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of this film was composed by Ratheesh Vegha. The music is owned by Manorama Music.

Song	Length	Singer(s)	Lyricist(s)	Picturization
"Meghame"		Haricharan	Prakash Marar
"Parayumo"		Rahul Nambiar & Thulasi Yatheendran	Alankkode Leelakrishnan
"Pidayuka"		P. Jayachandran	Prakash Marar & Alankkode Leelakrishnan
"Janmandarangalil"		Pradeep Chandrakumar[6]	Alankkode Leelakrishnan
"Jhum Thana"		Ganga	Shankar
"Oriya Keerthanam"		Pradeep Chandrakumar

Playback singer Karthik was mistakenly awarded the Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer for the song "Janmandarangalil" which was actually sung by Pradeep Chandrakumar. Music director Ratheesh Vegha has revealed that although Karthik was chosen to sing the song, his rendition did not reach perfection and was replaced by Pradeep Chandrakumar who was to sing the track for this song. Pradeep's version was only included in the film and audio CD which was however credited to Karthik for commercial purposes.^[6]

Production

The film is produced by Chettikal Madhavan Edappal, and directed by M. Padmakumar who has previously directed movies like Vaasthavam, Shikar - The Hunt, Ithu Pathiramanal etc.

Reception

This movie received average response from the critics and eventually ended up as a box office disaster.