Malayali Mamanu Vanakkam
Directed by	Rajasenan
Written by	Udayakrishna-Siby K. Thomas
Produced by	B Rakesh
Starring	Jayaram Prabhu Roja Kalabhavan Mani Jagathy Sreekumar
Cinematography	Prathapan
Edited by	Sreekar Prasad
Music by	Suresh Peters
Distributed by	Cinema Cinema
Release date	22 February 2002
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Malayali Mamanu Vanakkam is a 2002 Indian Malayalam language film directed by Rajasenan starring Jayaram, Prabhu, Kalabhavan Mani, Jagathy Sreekumar and Roja. It was released on 22 February 2002.^[1][2][3] The film was dubbed into Tamil as Gounder Veetu Maapillai, with additional scenes featuring Vadivelu, Vennira Aadai Moorthy, M. S. Bhaskar and Lekhasri.

Plot

Anandakuttan's mother wants her daughter Anandavalli to be with the family for Anandakuttan's marriage to Revathy. So he takes up a trip on to Tamil Nadu in search of his sister and her husband Muniyandi along with his uncle Keshu.

Anandakuttan succeeds in finding his sister and she sends her daughter Parvathy with Anandakuttan to his home town, to prevent her from marrying Kannayya. However, Parvathy assumes that Anandakuttan is in love with her following the Tamil custom of Muraimaman (where uncles do marry their nieces). She falls in love with him and assumes his family also considers her as the fiancée of him without knowing that he was already engaged with Revathy. Anandakuttan wants to make her aware that in Kerala, it is a prohibited relationship as uncles have a fatherly figure without offending her. So he tries to bring Kannayya to his family to make her fall in love with him. However, she doesn't which results in a major issue in the family once they realised that Parvathy loved Anandakuttan.

Cast

• Jayaram as Anandakuttan
• Prabhu as Periyakulam Aruval Kannaiya
• Kalabhavan Mani as Thirupathy Perumal/Muniyandi
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Kesavan, Anandakuttan's younger uncle
• Roja as Parvathi
• Suja Karthika as Revathi
• Srividya as Anandakuttan's mother
• Shobha Mohan as Anandavalli
• Oduvil Unnikrishnan as Narayana Kurup, Anandakuttan's elder uncle
• P.Balachandran as Easwaran Pillai, Revathi's father
• Sudheesh as Kammath (lodge receptionist)
• Machan Varghese as Chinnaiya
• Sruthi Nair (Devika Rani) as Vichithra
• Kalliyoor Sasi in a cameo appearance as Anandvalli's first husband

Reception

A critic from Cinesouth wrote that "All said & done, the movie is an entertainer. And, a winner. That's all that counts".^[4]

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