Vellithira (2003 film)

Vellithira (transl. Silver Screen) is a 2003 Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Bhadran.^[1] It stars Prithviraj Sukumaran and Navya Nair. The story is about a young man who is working hard to raise his sister. The music was composed by debutant Alphons Joseph. The songs were charbusters at that time, particularly the song "Pachamanga Pachamanga".^[2]

Vellithira
Soundtrack cover
Directed by	Bhadran
Written by	Bhadran
Produced by	Latha Mohan
Starring	Prithviraj Sukumaran Navya Nair Kalabhavan Mani
Cinematography	S. Kumar
Edited by	Ranjan Abraham
Music by	Alphons Joseph
Production company	Shlok Films
Distributed by	Shlok Release
Release date	27 June 2003 (2003-06-27)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Plot

A teenage girl named Thatha is living with her blacksmith brother Vakkathi Vasu and his wife and children. Style Raj is a guy who moves from place to place with a movie projector and shows movie to public on the run for a living. He meets Thatha and falls in love. Vasu discovers that Raj is actually the murderer of the landlord who killed his father. In the end Raj is sent to jail.

Cast

• Prithviraj Sukumaran as Style Raj / Raghuram
• Navya Nair as Thatha
• Kalabhavan Mani as Vakkathi Vasu
• Sudheesh as Mohammad
• Vinayakan as Padavan
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Erumathadam Jose
• Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Peppatty Nair
• Cochin Haneefa as Panchayath President
• Ashokan as Gopu
• Kavya Madhavan as Pankajam ,Raghuram's sister
• Kalpana as Pushpam
• Indrans as Iyamkutty, tea shop owner
• Machan Varghese as Nooli Thommy
• Salim Kumar as Surendran Vaduvanchery
• Meghanathan as Shivankuttan
• Bindu Panicker as Bhavani, Vasu's wife
• Bindu Ramakrishnan as Raj's mother

Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack contains 13 songs, all composed by Alphons Joseph. Lyrics were written by Shibu Chakravarthy and Kaithapram.The film marked the debut of Alphons as a film composer. The audio launch for this film's soundtrack was launched by A. R. Rahman.

#	Title	Singer(s)
1	"Hridayasakhee"	Hariharan
2	"Hridayasakhee" (D)	Hariharan, K. S. Chitra
3	"Karinkallil Kadanjedutha"	Sujatha Mohan, Vidhu Prathap, Chorus
4	"Kudamullakkadavil"	Sujatha Mohan
5	"Pacha Maanga"	Shankar Mahadevan, K. S. Chitra
6	"Nee Manimukilaadakal"	P. Jayachandran, K. S. Chitra
7	"Ottuvacha"	Biju Narayanan, Anwar Sadath, Bindu
8	"Velichathin Vellithooval"	Alphonse Joseph

Awards

• Kerala Film Critics Award - Best Female Singer - Sujatha Mohan (also for Kasthooriman)^[3]