Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu

Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu (transl. The century when the hen crows) is a 1994 Indian Malayalam-language comedy-drama film directed by Viji Thampi and written by Sasidharan Arattuvazhi from a story by Urvashi, who also produced the film. Starring Urvashi, Manoj K. Jayan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Kalpana, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Vinaya Prasad, Janardhanan, Ratheesh and Saikumar. The story revolves around paying guests in a female-only homestay who identify themselves as misandrists.

Pidakkozhi Koovunna Noottandu
Directed byViji Thampi
Produced byUrvashi
Screenplay bySasidharan Arattuvazhi
Story byUrvashi
StarringUrvashi
Manoj K. Jayan
Jagathy Sreekumar
Kalpana
K. P. A. C. Lalitha
Vinaya Prasad
Janardhanan
Saikumar
Music byS. P. Venkatesh
CinematographyDinesh Baboo
Edited byA. Sreekar Prasad
Distributed byPrathiksha Pictures
Release date
1994
Running time
144 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

The film was a commercial success at the box office. It was remade in Telugu as Adalla Majaka.

Plot

The story revolves around a paying guest home run by Chinthamani Ammal who is a determined misandrist due to a failed love affair. Only misandrists are allowed as paying guests. Ponnamma, one of the paying guests, hates men because of her parents being partial to her twin brother Ponnappan. Another guest, Nancy, is a lawyer and is engaged on a post divorce custody battle for the child with her ex-husband Tony Varghese. Vasundhara and Bhagyarekha pretend to be misandrists to please Chinthamani Ammal.One day a man (Jagathi) enters their house resulting in him being hit by Chintamani Ammal.A while later, when he wakes up, to everybody’s horror, they find out that the man became mentally retarded. The other lodgers blame Chinthamani Ammal as she was the one who had hit him in the head. The lodgers as well as Chintamani Ammal try to bring back his memory but in vain. At last they decide to bring back Chinthamani Ammal’s long lost lover to cure him (He called himself as Ikru). Finally Ikru is cured and Chinthamani and her lover reunite. In between Bhagyarekha falls in love with Sachidanandan, a local man. When goons try to attack her, Sachi comes there and saves her ending up in police station but is freed in the end. Then Bhagyarekha’s flashback is revealed. She used to work in a hotel with her sister. When her sister was physically attacked she tried to fight back resulting in a person’s death. From then on she was hiding from the goons.Many other sequences occur which shows how Sachi and Bhagya try to escape from the goons which forms the rest of the movie. In the end everybody finds their own love and happiness. *THE END*

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