Seniors (film)

Seniors is a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language comedy thriller film directed by Vysakh and written by Sachi-Sethu. The plot follows four friends who return to their alma mater as students. It stars Jayaram, Kunchacko Boban, Biju Menon, and Manoj K. Jayan. The film features a score by Gopi Sundar and songs by Alphons Joseph, Jassie Gift, and Alex Paul. The film was released in India and the United Kingdom on 7 May 2011. The film was a blockbuster at the box office.[2]

Seniors
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVysakh
Produced byVaishakh Rajan
Written bySachi-Sethu
Starring
Music byScore:
Gopi Sundar
Songs:
Alphonse
Jassie Gift
Alex Paul
CinematographyShaji
Edited byMahesh Narayan
Production
company
Vaishaka Cynymas
Distributed byVaishaka Release
Release date
  • 7 May 2011 (2011-05-07) (India)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam
Budget5 crore[1]

Plot

The film starts with two scenes, one in 1981, in which a husband is waiting for his flirtatious wife to come home and take care of their son and baby daughter, the wife comes with her boyfriend and after a fight decides to leave the husband and child.

Again in flashback, in 1996, its college day festival and after a dance performance, Indu (Padmapriya) comes to enquire about her sister Lakshmi (Meera Nandan) who is with her four friends and one of them says he would drop her home. The friends are having a good time enjoying the college day festival. In sudden turn of events, there is a loud scream and all the students rush out to see what happened, only to find Lakshmi dead. Present Day, out of the four friends Rex Immanuel (Kunchacko Boban), Philip Idikkula (Biju Menon), and Rashid Munna (Manoj K. Jayan), 3 of them are excited to know about the return of Pappu alias Padmanabhan (Jayaram) who was accused and spent time in jail for the murder of Lakshmi. Due to Pappu's stubbornness friends decide to get back to their studies, after a gap of 12 years. Now back from Jail, Pappu wants to start everything from where they have missed it and the other three support him, taking a break from their jobs and joining the college for M.A Philosophy. Following certain hilarious sequences of the foursome in college, there are some interesting twists and turns to the plot, but the main aim of Pappu is to find the deep mystery behind the tragedy that happened 12 years ago and to find the killer which is among his friends. At the end of the college festival programme he identifies the killer of Lakshmi is none other than his friend Rex. He reveals that he was in love with Lakshmi and on her birthday when he came to wish her he saw Lakshmi in bed with another person which made him angry to know that two women in his life:- his mother and Lakshmi are cheaters which made him kill Lakshmi. After saying this, he targets Jenny but Pappu stops him. He becomes the convict to save Rex. In the end Pappu is back to college and everything is back to normal.

Cast

Box office

The film had a high opening at the Kerala box office. This movie was a blockbuster and ran over 125 days and grossed a total of ₹16 crore.

Soundtrack

No.TitleLyricsMusicArtist(s)Length
1."Aaramam Niranje"Anil PanachooranAlphons JosephBenny Dayal, Lakshmi 
2."Ithiri Chakkara Nulli"Santhosh VarmaJassie GiftJassie Gift, Imran, Anuradha Sriram 
3."Neram Thettippoyalum"Santhosh VarmaAlex PaulRamesh Babu, Pradeep Babu, Vipin Xavier, Shyam Prasad, Nithin 
4."Rhythm of Death" (Instrumental) Alphons Joseph  

References

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