Manikyakkallu

2011 Indian film

Prithviraj Sukumaran
Samvrutha Sunil
Nedumudi Venu
Jagathy Sreekumar
Jagadish

CinematographyP. SukumarEdited byRanjan AbrahamMusic byM. Jayachandran

Release date

5 May 2011 (2011-05-05)

CountryIndiaLanguageMalayalamBudget₹2 crore (US$240,000)Box office₹11.25 crore (US$1.3 million)

Manikyakkallu is a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language drama film directed by M. Mohanan and starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, Samvrutha Sunil, and Nedumudi Venu in the lead roles. It is about a young teacher who arrives at a village school and tries to make a definite change in students' attitudes. The movie is loosely based on the life story ^[1] of the students and teachers of the Government Brennen Higher Secondary School, Thalassery.^[2]

Cast

Prithviraj Sukumaran as Vinayachandran Master ^[3]
Samvrutha Sunil as Chandni Teacher
Nedumudi Venu as Karunakara Kurup
Jagathy Sreekumar as Karunakaran Karikalkuzhi
Salim Kumar as Kunjuraman/Thampuraan
Devan as Ramachandran Master, Vinayachandran's father
Indrans as Sudhakaran
Sai Kumar as District Education Officer
Kottayam Nazeer as Pavanan Parimanam (Pavanan Master)
Jagadish as Vasudevan Cheruvancherry a.k.a. V.D.C
Manikandan Pattambi as Gopalan
Anoop Chandran as Ahammed Master
Sasi Kalinga as Sashi
P. Sreekumar as Education Minister
Anil Murali as Sreekkuttan Master a.k.a. S.K
Manuraj as Satheeshan
Narayanankutty as Eldhose
Navneeth Madhavan as Manu
K. P. A. C. Lalitha as Vilasini, Chandini's mother
Bindu Panicker as Raakhi, Kurup's wife
Shaalin Zoya as Mubeena
Ambika Mohan as Savithri teacher
Joby as Kunjachan
Kochu Preman as Varghese
Muthumanni as Sundari Teacher
K. T. C. Abdulla as Mathi Mammad
Kalabhavan Haneef as Radhakrishnan
Balu Varghese as Basheer
Anil Panachooran as Uthaman
Suresh Krishna- extended Cameo Appearance
Aju Varghese - Cameo Appearance
Subeesh Sudhi - Cameo Appearance
Kulappulli Leela- Cameo Appearance
M. Jayachandran- Cameo Appearance
Vishnu Unnikrishnan- Cameo Appearance

Soundtrack

All lyrics are written by Anil Panachooran except where noted; all music is composed by M. Jayachandran

No.	Title	Lyrics	Artist(s)
1.	"Chembarathi"		Shreya Ghoshal, Ravisankar
2.	"Melemanathe"	Ramesh Kavil	V. Devanand
3.	"Olakkuda"		Madhu Balakrishnan
4.	"Naadaayal"		Sherdin

References

^ "Success Story of Govt. Brennan School, Thalassery". The Hindu.
^ "Review: Manikyakkallu is mediocre fare".
^ "മാണിക്യകല്ല് ചിത്രീകരണം തുടങ്ങി" (in Malayalam). Malayalamcinemanews.com. Archived from the original on 8 May 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2011.