Ottayal Pattalam

1991 Indian film

1991 (1991)

Running time

133 minCountryIndiaLanguageMalayalam

Ottayal Pattalam (transl. One man army) is a 1991 Indian Malayalam-language caper comedy film written and directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar. The film stars Mukesh and Madhoo, with Innocent and K. P. A. C. Lalitha in the supporting roles.^[1]^[2] Sharreth scored the music for the film.^[3]

Plot

Venu is an orphan who works as a taxi driver. He is mistaken by the police as the kidnapper of Gopika Varma, an NRI girl. Venu tries to solve his problems and prove his innocence. Meanwhile, he stays out of the sight of the police by pretending to be a retired Colonel. Amidst his efforts to prove his innocence, he falls in love with Gopika. When she finds he is innocent and gets to know everything that has happened without his knowledge, she falls for him. How Venu proves his innocence forms the rest of the plot. The true kidnapper turns out to be an African national.

Cast

Mukesh as Venu Gopalakrishnan/Col. R. K. Nair
Madhoo as Gopika Varma/Indu
Innocent as DIG Chandrashekara Menon
KPAC Lalitha as SI Shoshamma
Shammi Thilakan
Antony (Kenyan) as Simon Antony
Paravoor Bharathan as SI
Vettukili Prakash as Velayudhan
Edavela Babu
Kalpana
Bobby Kottarakkara as Makeup man
Preethika
Ranju
Ravi Vallathol
Asha Jayaram
James
Manimala as Matron

Soundtrack

Ottayal Pattalam

Soundtrack album by

Sharreth

Genre

Feature film soundtrack

Language

Malayalam

Sharreth chronology

Kshanakkathu
(1990)

Ottayal Pattalam
(1991)

Rudraksham
(1992)

The film has two songs composed by Sharreth while the lyrics were written by P. K. Gopi.^[4]^[5] The song "Mayamanchalil" is an Evergreen song.^[6] The background score of the movie was by Johnson.

Track	Singer(s)	Lyrics
"Mayamanchalil Ithu"	Radhika Thilak, G. Venugopal	P. K. Gopi
"Thinthaktho"	G. Venugopal	P. K. Gopi

References

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^ "Composer Sharreth tuned this song on his heartbreak day". OnManorama. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
^ Kumar, P. K. Ajith (23 August 2012). "Top scorer". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
^ IBTimes (21 September 2015). "Radhika Thilak death: 10 songs to remember deceased playback singer". International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
^ "Manjakiliyude Moolipattu stops abruptly". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 July 2019.