Rappakal

Rappakal is a 2005 Indian Malayalam film directed by Kamal. Mammootty, Nayanthara and Sharada appears in lead roles.

Rappakal
Directed by	Kamal
Written by	T. A. Razzaq
Produced by	Houli Pottoor
Starring	Mammootty Nayanthara Sharada
Cinematography	P. Sukumar
Edited by	K. Rajagopal
Music by	Mohan Sithara
Distributed by	Swargachithra
Release date	24 June 2005 (2005-06-24)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Plot

This is a heartfelt story of a male help/valet and his motherly affection to the elderly woman, whom he looks after. It explores the Keralite soul of the family and the seamier aspects of it and finishes it with an evocation of the need to keep intrinsic humane values, in any period of change. Mammootty plays the role of the help who is also a vigilant caretaker of the Tharavad Veedu and is referred as the "Tree of Goodness" which protects the sanctity of the household. Sharada plays the role of the affectionate mother and Nayanthara as the house help.

Cast

• Mammootty as Krishnan
• Nayanthara as Gauri
• Sharada as Saraswathiyamma (Voice dubbed by M Thangamani)
• Balachandra Menon as Devanarayanan
• Geethu Mohandas as Malavika
• Vijayaraghavan as Janardhanan
• Janardhanan as Sankaran Kutty Nair (Kuttiyar)
• Salim Kumar as Govindan
• Suresh Krishna as Sudhi
• Kalasala Babu as Shekharan
• P. Sreekumar as Balagopal
• Thara Kalyan as Urmila
• Unnikrishnan Namboothiri as Valiya Varma
• Balachandran Chullikadu as Mahendra Varma
• Subbalakshmi as Valiya Varma's Wife
• Kozhikode Sarada as Janu Amma
• Narayanankutty as Karavakaran
• Baburaj as Manikantan
• Lishoy as Aniyan Varma
• Shobha Mohan as Janardhana Varma's wife
• Seema G. Nair as Gauri's sister
• Dinesh Prabhakar as Rajappan
• Ottapalam Pappan as Palkkaran
• Vishnu Unnikrishnan as Boy with Aanaval
• Resmi Boban
• Manka Mahesh
• Lavanya
• Poornima Anand as Renu
• Ajay jayaprakash as young Krishnan
• Aashiq Abu as photographer

Box office

The film was both commercial and critical success. It ran 100 days in theatres.^[1][2]

Soundtrack

Rappakal
Soundtrack album by Mohan Sithara
Released	2 June 2005
Recorded	2005
Studio	Revi's, Thrissur
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Language	Malayalam
Label	Manorama Music
Mohan Sithara chronology
Hridayathil Sookshikkan (2005) Rappakal (2005) Thanmathra (2005)

All songs were composed by Mohan Sithara and lyrics were written by Kaithapram.^[3][4]

Track	Song	Artist(s)	Raga(s)
1	"Thankamanassu"	P. Jayachandran	Neelambari
2	"Pokathe"	Afsal	Shivaranjani
3	"Yadhu Hrudayam"	K. S. Chithra, Madhu Balakrishnan
4	"Kadha Kadha"	Vijay Yesudas, Jyotsna Radhakrishnan, Anwar Sadath, Dinesh Devdas, Asha Madhu
5	"Thankamanassu"	Vidya Swarabhrath	Neelambari
6	"Yadhu Hrudayam"	Karaoke
7	"Kadha Kadha"	Karaoke