Dilliwala Rajakumaran

Cast: Jayaram,Kalabhavan Mani, Narendra Prasad, Manju Warrier
Language: Malayalam
Director: Rajasenan
Year: 1996

Kalabhavan Mani claims this is still one of his favourite movies. That is surprising, considering he has had some notable achievements in the past couple of years. However, he does fit his role in the movie, that of the comic sidekick to an equally comic Jayaram. Jayaram and Manju are cousins, slated to get married to each other. Manju's dad, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, is an impoverished man, who is suddenly informed that he is distantly related to a local 'royal' family, full of xenophobic Namboothiris. They are without an heir, and would like to adopt an heiress from their extended family circle. The dice falls on beautiful Manju, and from then the troubles are unleashed.

Jayaram is not a Namboothiri, and is therefore unfit to be Manju's suitor. Oduvil decides to shut him out of his daughter's life, seeing the lure of lucre dangling before him. He blackmails Manju with suicide if she decides to fall out of line with his wishes for her. Jayaram (and Mani with him) moves into the royal palace, pretending to be the elder Namboothiri's sister's (Srividya) long-lost son. Things heat up when the real son (Biju Menon) arrives. A comedy of errors and confusion ensues, and this movie has a happy ending. For some reason, Manju's voice in this movie was dubbed over by someone else. This cramps her style, and I think it would have been far better to have had Manju do her own voice-overs. Manju ended the practice of someone else doing the dubbing for her in the movies that came after this one.

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