Pranayakalam

Pranayakalam (English: Season of Love) is a 2007 Indian Malayalam romantic film directed by débutant Uday Ananthan and starring Ajmal Ameer and Vimala Raman.^[1]

Pranayakalam
Directed by	Uday Ananthan
Written by	Uday Ananthan
Produced by	AVA Productions
Starring	Ajmal Ameer Vimala Raman
Cinematography	Jibu Jacob Loganathan Srinivasan
Edited by	L. Bhoominathan
Music by	Ouseppachan
Distributed by	Century Release
Release date	8 June 2007 (2007-06-08)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Cast

• Ajmal Ameer as Renjith (voiceover by Sarath Das)
• Vimala Raman as Maria Varghese (voiceover by Sreeja Ravi)
• Jithu Johny Panjikkaran as Deepu
• Murali as ASI Stephen Varghese
• Seema as Anna
• Balachandra Menon as Balan
• Thilakan as Krishnankutty
• Madhu Warrier as Narayanan
• Atlee
• Baburaj as Gunda
• Lakshmy Ramakrishnan as Rajani
• Sruthi Nair (Devika Rani) as Neethu
• Anoop Menon as doctor

Music

The music for the film was composed by Ouseppachan. The lyrics were written by Rafeeq Ahamed, who won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyricist for his work in the film.^[2] All the songs from the movie became popular especially "Oru Venalppuzhayil", which became hugely popular among youngsters.^{[citation needed]}

• "Thulaseedala" - K. J. Yesudas
• "Anthinilaavinte" - Kalyani Menon
• "Ente Daivame" (F) - Sujatha Mohan
• "Ente Daivame" (M) - Vidhu Prathap
• "Etho Vidooramaam" - K. S. Chitra
• "Kari Raavin" - Franco, Sayanora Philip
• "Oru Venalppuzhayil" - Ranjith K. Govind
• "Parayu Prabhaathame" - Gayathri Asokan
• "Theme Song" - Ouseppachan

Reception

A critic from Sify rated the film three out of five stars and wrote, "On the whole Pranayakalam, could have been a far more convincing and touching if the director and his script writer had done their home work."^[3] Paresh C. Palicha of Rediff.com gave the film two out of five stars and wrote, "The film opens and you are transported two decades. So far so good. Then comes the bummer, this film, you realise, is just another ordinary love story. Nothing more, nothing less."^[4]