| Malootty | |
|---|---|
 Poster | |
| Directed by | Bharathan |
| Written by | John Paul |
| Produced by | Ajitha Hari |
| Starring | Shamili Jayaram Urvashi |
| Cinematography | Venu |
| Edited by | B. Lenin V. T. Vijayan |
| Music by | Johnson |
Release date |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
Malootty is a 1990 Indian Malayalam-language survival drama film directed by Bharathan, starring Shamili in the title role along with Jayaram and Urvashi. The film was inspired by the 1989 American television movie Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure, which portrayed the real-life rescue of a child who had fallen into a narrow well. Malootty presents a similar situation set in the 1980s, in which a young girl becomes trapped in a drilled borewell and survives after many hours. The title drawings were done by Bharathan's son. Shamili won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Child Artist.[1]
Plot
[edit]Five-year-old Malootty is the only child of Raji and Unnikrishnan, who is on a vacation with them. Events take a tragic turn when she visits a vacation home, suddenly falls into a drill hole while playing ball with her dog,[2] and becomes stuck inside. Unnikrishnan frantically struggles to rescue her.
Cast
[edit]- Baby Shamili as Malootty
- Jayaram as Unnikrishnan
- Urvashi as Raji
- K.P.A.C. Lalitha as Saraswathi
- Nedumudi Venu as Raghavan
- Innocent as Sankaran
- Devan as Wilson Cherian
- Priya (voice over by Valsamma)
- Sreenath
- Prathapachandran
- Kunjandi
- K.P.A.C.Ramachandran Nair as Doctor (voice over by Hari)
Soundtrack
[edit]All lyrics are written by Pazhavila Rameshan; all music is composed by Johnson. Sujatha Mohan received the Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her renditions in this film.
| No. | Title | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Mounathin Idanaazhiyil" | Sujatha Mohan | |
| 2. | "Mounathin Idanaazhiyil" | K. J. Yesudas, Sujatha Mohan | |
| 3. | "Swargangal Swapnam Kaanum" | Sujatha Mohan, G. Venugopal | |
| 4. | "Mounathin Idanaazhiyil" (Male) | K. J. Yesudas |
References
[edit]- ^ "Kerala State Film Awards" Archived 19 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Joseph, Raveena; Ramanujam, Srinivasa (13 November 2015). "Child stars on the big screen". The Hindu.
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